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Torches Poems - Poems about Torches


Not a Monster: a Nightcrawler Poem
Not a Monster: A Nightcrawler Poem I could hear their voices Carrying pitchforks and torches The light guiding them through the dark Towards me, their target, their mark. They called me a monster, a freak Shouting at me throughout the streets But I was the one on the run Not the one holding...

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Categories: torches, dream, fear, fire, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Torches of Light
Torches of light appeared unseen beneath heavens secrecy door as I lay asleep in the wake of earth full living; She cupped her breath and blew warm air unto the gifted child of grief sending her to the other side of the ocean together with the coral reef Bathing my tears with spikenard oil she clothed...

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Categories: torches, analogy, angel,
Form: Rhyme



Torches Rage
The past is but a distant flame, with reasons there disowned Where fire burns in effigy, to singe that falsely known The ages but a candle dim, its wick burned to the quick As torches rage from deep within —all time a kindling stick (Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...

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Categories: torches, light,
Form: Rhyme
Torches Tied
With queries and questions for a year-long protracted night, understanding came in a instant, I believed. Going home, alone, accompanied by a weird, unfamiliar light; I drove off a familiar cliff. They bereaved. Instead...

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Categories: torches, 11th grade, allusion, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Two Blazing Torches
Two blazing torches through deep dark way advancing A cat mews at me...

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Categories: torches, cat,
Form: Haiku



Torches
fed up with the indecision it seems to be the reason for too many empty visions of romance novels written don't know why i believed in you I can't quite think that far back now, dude my brain's a sunken ship in juice that i thought consuming would be more soothing than reminding myself i'm dusting on a shelf another girl you left...

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Categories: torches, absence, jealousy,
Form: I do not know?
Fields Where Torches Fly
Wind Black orbs Fields where torches fly Without hands The hill hides the Sun -set / “who are you?” a voice mutes an electric shock...

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Categories: torches, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse
To Keep Our Torches Afire
When gray, we are away From light that brightly shines As if around under a cloud We roam, spirit forlorn. Our thoughts turn inward And we dwell in a well Of self righteous indignation Which harrows down to our bone marrow And sap our energy trapped By an arraign of complain. The body stricken get...

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Categories: torches, angst, inspirational, life, drug,
Form: Free verse
Torches Not Swords
Oh these words fell so harshly spread amongst our beaten ears a lashing cruelly shared ....perpetuated ....flames stoked by hot air Ugly sides of bitter souls mirthfully determined to discourage grasping for...

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Categories: torches, peace, people, philosophy
Form: Free verse

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