Unlit Poems - Poems about Unlit

Unlit Candles

We bide our time upon the cusp
Twixt what may be and surely must
From evenings hush till morning hours
Begging chase through moon lit bowers
Where gleans the will in blissful trance
And leads the way in halting dance
To just beyond what grasp may reach
Where barely recalled memories teach
Tween what is now and might have been
To tease the eye

Categories: unlit, dream,
Form: Rhyme

An Unlit Light

The night fell away 
dousing its own darkness,
a weak dawning light 
hovered hesitantly,
over its scant trembling edge.

Mist was not mist 
but an erasing smear,
the sky was a half-closed eye.

Those who watched,
wondered if the new would stay old,
or not lift itself at all 
from the crib or the grave,
but fade away in its own blooming.

For a

Categories: unlit, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Unlit Candle

"The light of the world.” 

Those who carry out the Great Commission 
Are 'oft mistaken in their hopeful persuasion 
That truth once spoken will ignite faith outright.
Yet, ‘tis the unlit candle must come to the light.

Copyright 2021 Paul Thomson

Categories: unlit, faith, light, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

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The Unlit Flame At Blue Feather's Cross Roads

"The Unlit Flame at Blue Feather’s Cross Roads"



Words these days are seldom Red
like drops of lifeless blood falling cold on a hot frying pan,
sentences are scattered, stuck in Go Nowhereland,
semi-solid, immovable coagulating gelatinous, turning dark incorrigible

They are watched silently by pale ghost squadrons
of Life’s fleeing butterflies, who hover suspended
over their favourite pets all unfinished books,
dog

Categories: unlit, angel, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism

Unlit Room

Though clusters of stardust explode like fire-glow,
        I wail. And with your tomb resting a hundred miles 
    Beyond our unlit abode... there is no warm room
 For me in every rosy nightfall, sparkling –
As my tear-blots and very veins still contain you.



8/25/2019
Writing Challenge 3,

Categories: unlit, grief,
Form: Verse

The Unlit Road

Let explorers go where they will,
l have discovered my paradise in thee,
New worlds do not me, with interest fill
For you have set my roaming spirit free,

Of distant lands I dream no longer,
And I cannot think of elsewhere being,
As my passion grows, the bonds get stronger,
your presence blesses me with seeing.

You light up the road, I

Categories: unlit, love,
Form: Verse

Unlit Dreamscape

Her eyes look like diamonds
against black holes in the sky--

I am recounting
my random decisions,

and... resting my mind.

I've reached the secret
in this 
warm,
unlit 
dreamscape.

Martyrs shine bright
in the milky moonlight...

as laughter's echo 
rides off 
on a 
faraway breeze.

Categories: unlit, emotions, humanity, symbolism,
Form: Alliteration

Unlit and Muted

A ripple, then a bubble,

     sparkling in the light,

          swaying to the sound;

I was there, I was told,

     blinking in the light,

          frightened by the sound;

I am here, I

Categories: unlit, imagination, life, mystery, nature,
Form: Imagism