Long Hold a candle Poems
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I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades of Oblivion, a TrilogyPredator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion
Part I
I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with its dying light screaming in agonizing moans
upon bloody battlefields of...
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Categories:
hold a candle, appreciation, art, birth, blessing, time, truth, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Beyond the Realm of WishesIn sun-scorched dunes, beside a weathered sentinel,
a glint ensnared his weary gaze.
A tarnished lamp / grazed / its secrets unknown /
a genie unbound, a muted haze.
Three worldly desires danced like tempting fruit, ambition's...
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Categories:
hold a candle, conflict, desire, inspiration, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Summer of CrazyI still have that letter somewhere.
You made me promise to not tell anyone you wrote it.
So I kept that promise,
I kept it for thirty years.
I’m kinda thinking it’s long enough.
Why was I attracted to you?
It...
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Categories:
hold a candle, adventure, break up, emotions, jealousy, youth,
Form:
Prose
I'M Dying To See You - LiterallyDad was loadin' rods and tackle, I was addin' fuel, as Mom hopped on with a picnic lunch that balmy afternoon.
Another Sunday outing on the lake - our old routine - as sister Susie tossed...
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Categories:
hold a candle, depression, loneliness, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
You Didn't Survive Me(His Version of I Survived You)
You say that you survived the storm that was me but did you after all? Once I came and went wreaking havoc on your life making you feel so small
Those...
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Categories:
hold a candle, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am a Boy Living In a CountryI’m a boy living in a country where
We get emotional over every government move
And every government move is chartered over our emotions
Emotions are chastised whether it or let be
One trying to correct the wrong,
But nay,...
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Categories:
hold a candle, celebration, corruption, dedication, discrimination, family, fantasy, spoken
Form:
Free verse
On Dreams and ImaginationSomething I've long been curious about is the great disparity between our 'waking lives' and the lives we lead whilst dreaming. We all dream--that is a pysch/biological fact, even for those folk who claim never...
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Categories:
hold a candle, allusion, appreciation, creation, dream, imagination, poetry, spiritual,
Form:
Prose
Common Sense, Men and Horses / Short VersionWe perched atop the corral,
as he read the men and horses,
And he told me about common sense
and it’s amazing, magical forces.
We watched the men...
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Categories:
hold a candle, cowboy-western, faith, family, inspirational, philosophy, uplifting, me,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Such a ClicheI'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise ...
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Categories:
hold a candle, funny, humor, irony, language, literature, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Return To Excellence Part I~names allured ere call of wind _conferred again to All’s begin~
~meandering souls ebb tides of sea _ so shall marrows forever be~
We hark unto ye trumpets, O elephants_ tis proclaimed magnificence_
As Ye Bellow of Life’s...
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Categories:
hold a candle, eulogy,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Just a MessageWhat I am about to say comes in many shapes and sizes, but none hold a candle the idea I see.
My thoughts go deep as I ponder and see my life float by like...
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Categories:
hold a candle, dream, emotions, identity, perspective, silence, voice, write,
Form:
Free verse
I Won'T Forget YouI know that I won’t forget you
Did you ever believe that I would?
What we had together was special:
Magical, and exceptionally good.
Even though it’s now over
And we have parted amicably
There is a little piece of you
That...
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Categories:
hold a candle, angst, break up, feelings, heartbreak, memory, missing
Form:
Couplet
MemoryYou called me Memory
not realizing that is all I want
I couldn't ask for anymore
than to be a lovely memory in someone's heart
To be remembered is a great responsibility
I will wear this name...
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Categories:
hold a candle, analogy, art, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
I Know This HeartbreakHow many times can your heartbreak
How many times must I feel this ache,
Like an old friend we are well acquainted
Leaving big holes in my soul and life tainted,
I sit here now crying real...
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Categories:
hold a candle, death, farewell, i miss you, lost love,
Form:
Elegy
The Real Story of the UnicornThere is a girl who's skin is like ivory it is so fair,
And Red's crimson cape can't hold a candle to her hair.
She has magical powers untold,
A heart made of pure gold.
She gives her good...
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Categories:
hold a candle, deep, fantasy, hope, peace, perspective, sister, women,
Form:
Rhyme
The Drums and IThere are three of us in this romance
It’s a strained love triangle between you
And me
And that gleaming set of drums lurking in your spare room
However much you may try to deny it
To say that I...
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Categories:
hold a candle, love, musicme, halloween, love, me,
Form:
Free verse
My Buried SoulWhen I began college I did not know
where it would take me or where I would go.
I happened to choose an anthropology course
trying to see the different sides of humanity's source.
Social, Cultural, and...
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Categories:
hold a candle, career, change, introspection, self,
Form:
Couplet
Cerulean Odyssey One, 13-1613
bayside rumours of war
and flowers blossoming thirst
for sacrificial blood
cut my weeping heart out
ensure another flawless sunrise
confusion moments of despair
deceived beyond deception
their laboured cry heard no more
my voice remains
slower traffic keep right
my fist a burning piston
line...
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Categories:
hold a candle, allegory, inspirational, life, philosophy, heart, voice, heart,
Form:
Epic
The Joys of Online DatingReading captions besides smiling lips.
Reveiwing lifesyles and basics.
Choosing in a moment or over quiet deliberation whether
to reply to a flirtatious glance.
Finding, more and more, that I have little experience at this...
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Categories:
hold a candle, computer-internet, funny, people, social,
Form:
I do not know?
The Jackass of PoetryMy words wont ever hold a candle to Poe or Byron.
Rhymes about whiskey and loose woman.
No that pulitzer there really is no need in admiring.
For Im the guy that get's wasted and jumps
over fire.
Gives...
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Categories:
hold a candle, adventure, funnyme, people, fun, me, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Insight To the SightsForget that first glimpse of the tower of Pisa.
The glorious colorful tulips in their beds at
Keukenhoff Gardens in springtime.
The Eiffel tower blinking in the darkness.
The Grand Canyon gilded at sunset.
The wandering mist from the power...
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Categories:
hold a candle, beauty, city, family, life, travel, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Daddy Your My HeroDaddy I remember, I was probably about three, all the times you made me laugh, like when
you tickled me.
Daddy I adored you, even when I made you mad, youv'e always taken care of me,...
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Categories:
hold a candle, childhood, daughter, devotion, father, history, life, thank
Form:
Rhyme
LutherSo grateful to have lived during your
lifetime,
I wasn't born when the great Sam Cooke was in
his prime,
But I know that he is gazing down from above,
Smiling at you because you're holding the torch
like...
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Categories:
hold a candle, loss,
Form:
Ballad
Your EyesYour Eyes
Your eyes
Your eyes
As I look inside
I smile at your prize
The eyes are the windows to the soul
But as an added bonus
Your eyes are the fuel that flames my fire
My urgency to reveal my passion...
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Categories:
hold a candle, love, romance, romantic,
Form:
Blank verse
Doggerel ArtistIt was some hours of purgatory,
Self imposed, but all the same,
He thought of it as purgatory as
He listened to them declaim
Their long strings of words with
No apparent rhyme or reason,
As if joy and happiness...
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Categories:
hold a candle, culture, spoken word, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme