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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

Categories: torches, dream, fear, fire, hate,
Form: Rhyme

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

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)

Categories: torches, light,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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

Categories: torches, 11th grade, allusion, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

Two Blazing Torches

Two blazing torches
 through deep dark way advancing
          A cat mews at me

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

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

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

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

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