Unlit Poems - Poems about Unlit

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...

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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...

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"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...

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"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...

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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,...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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