Short Torch Poems

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Premium Member Steppin' Down

farewell
stepping down
less one this ticket 
empathy for our country
the torch is passed, age has revealed its sly self
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member The Torch the Gods May Send

For teachers are the torch the gods may send,
Whose patient light, the wounds of darkness mend;
Who, but they bring beginning, there be end.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Torch Ii

Once the torch of self-knowledge is lit

clearer 

the way that leads to the divine grows!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
       25 June 2020
Form: Epigram

Premium Member A Flaming Torch

Snoopy, hero of Peanuts cartoon fame
Sure knew how to play the sympathy game
   He never said Boo
   Or even Yahoo
And became every lady reader's flame
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Pass the Torch

Pass the torch
  I'm getting burned
Pass the torch
  It's the young un's turn

Pass the torch
  Its flame's sunk low
Pass the torch
  It's time to go...
Form: Rhyme


God's Heavenly Torch

beacon of light shones -
                                                    sea of tranquality bod
                                                    God's Heavenly torch
Form: Haiku

Premium Member TORCH

TORCH will light children’s mind shapes a heart to shine burns a passion to dream glaring sun for future wins “education is lifetime torch”
© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Oasis


                death colours' season
          takes a new torch to run with
        until legs resist
         ~thirsty crossing the desert
                looking for new oasis
Form: Tanka

Premium Member My Soul a Torch

My soul, a torch my Lord,

Praying to be lit by Your heavenly sparkle 

So as

The path of Your righteousness to discern 








© Demetrios Trifiatis
       26 April 2019

Premium Member The Torch V

The finding of oneself 

is the torch one has to light

for

to illumine the path that leads to
 
God's revelation! 










© Demetrios Trifiatis
       30 July 2020

Premium Member Torch

As we embraced in the enveloping darkness of his front porch,
I am filled with peace and warmth, knowing I will always hold this torch.
Shrouded in secrecy: love comparable to a scorch.
Form: Sijo

The Torch

Not cute or in genre,
  in tune or in tone

The message drives forward,
  the muse casting stones

Untimely, eternal,
  a voice speaking fast

My pen now a torch
  —the darkness is past

(Barnes & Noble Plymouth Meeting Pa: January, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

Final Torch

With days becoming short
  the light is growing dim

My eyes no longer search
  this vow my final hymn

Its message splits the air
  a flight with no return

The journey to within
 —one final torch to burn  

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)
Form: Rhyme

Claimless Torch

I am immersed into your darkness
As I wait for your return

Holding on to Amber claimless
If I let loose you'll feel the burn

You lit a torch into my vein
Did you kindle it with care

As the empty sky desists its reign
Will it distend my hungry stare
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member UNFORGETTABLE MOMENT-for Wonder of Soul's Expression Poetry Contest

Olympic flame, a stolen piece of sun,  
balanced in my unworthy hands,  
half a mile—just long enough  
to feel the weight of history  
and the lightness of being chosen.  

my footsteps left no mark—the fire did,  
brief, bright—symbol of the fire within.

Premium Member Pyromaniac

Tonight you'll rise
from the ashes of a story
no one claims

Strike a light, toss the match,
face awash, watch it catch

There's glory in the flames!

The trust you've earned blackened and charred,
just turn and cross back through the yard

and let fire burn to dust what remains...
Form: Other

Torch Bearer

My dearest, shed a tear, light a candle, love Christ completely. Then go, spread the gospel, true defender of the faith. Reach near and far, press on my love; never give in, nor settle, and know... 'For to live is Christ, and to die is gain.' For my beloved. (Poem a day) 01.07.2026
Form: Etheree

Torch of Truth

M-ake torch of truth brighten
A-pril twenty-sixth Wednesday; 
R-adiant blaze is shining, 
V-icious lies are far away.
I-lluminate torch of truth guides you everywhere; 
C-omforting message and wisdom come from the loving Father.

M-ove on, see the sun
A-bove the new horizon; 
L-ight warms your heart, 
T-orch of truth is
O-n.
Form: Acrostic

The Torch Passed

The Ancestral Pen 
when passing down
to heirs apparent
is thus endowed

Its ink distilling
what time cannot
a legacy willing
what can’t be bought

The Ancestral Pen
rewrites the tome
of generations
that sat the throne

From voices distant
to voices near
the torch is passed
— the future clear

(The New Room: December, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

To Torch and Burn

Masquerading in a church full of dreams,
all parishioners in their pews

The preacher straightens his mask and starts,
a sermon old renewed 

Hellfire and brimstone come roaring out,
 words to torch and burn

His face staying hidden as the nightmare unfolds
—the congregation’s dreams left spurned

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

For Some Things Cannot Be Salvaged

The screen door
Of the lakeside cabin
Is carved with slices
The size of claws
From the jumping family dog
Of long ago

From which fish flies skim through
The moonlit din
Thinning
Themselves
Into those slots

Dropped
Like silver coins
Into the lamp light
Of the cabin

Hoping it’s enough
To re-start the cuckoo clock
Left for dead
On my old man’s wall.

Premium Member Passing The Torch

PASSING THE TORCH

Come to light another torch
Why?  Because the truth is in the hands of the masters in every prize
Come to light another torch
Why?  Because the truth requires perfect accountability for one’s own perceptions and lies

I light the torch
Sharing love, wisdom, expertise
An inspiration of my mission
to the Life’s magnificence

Premium Member The Torch-Bearers

Although,

God shows no favoritism to any soul

For

Each soul is a part of Him,

He is delighted to respond to any man's plea for:

Light

Truth

virtue,

justice, and wisdom

Since

God knows that these men

May become the saviors and torch-bearers;

Of love

Of mercy

Of compassion, and

Of humanity!










© Demetrios Trifiatis
     27 August 2021

The Torch

His mind turned razor sharp,
just like daddy's used to
when he told me i was wrong and to stop it,
(can a six year old be wrong?)
 
so til his mind softened like newly melted butter,
I carried the torch.

I carried it through the mudslide,
and through that earth shaking quake,
and back into the cold rain.....

I carried the torch,
and then one day,
we stepped into bliss.

(it was worth it)
men

Premium Member Sparks of a Passing Torch

My grain of life, 
Like sparks of a passing torch,
Rips and licks at strife.

While sad on a porch
The red cardinal claims a song,
Then swoops down into dark mulch.

Then children playing in the night,
Like misfit angels they've taken your tongue,
Spilling pride to such shock and fright. 

The grain of your life is as long as the breadth of your consciousness.
And the shoes that you wore when you were four may one day be worn by Pegasus.

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