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Wicks Poems - Poems about Wicks

Madness
...We traveled up the dark river Styx Past vine choked jungle shrouded in mists. The candle flames wouldn’t burn their wicks. All ‘round we heard when the serpents hissed. Ahead the bleak city of th......

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Categories: wicks, allegory, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Image of HIM
...You can act as if HE isn't HIM as if going against God isn't a sin What's behind is something that isn't seen by the blind but this is by design What shines from above also illuminates what is b......

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Categories: wicks, god, introspection, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



I'M THANKFUL FOR BEING
... Gratitude, sovereign atop Meru’s lofty crest, Glides through crevices beneath Challenger Deep rest. I traverse with solemnity, a mortal blessed beyond infinity— An Avatar, eclipsing senators, ......

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Categories: wicks, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Diwali the Festival of Light
... Diwali the Festival of Light Trailing the path of autumn late Arrives the festival of light, ......

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Categories: wicks, faith, hope, light, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Movie Night
...I love a good movie, I honestly do I’d watch one alone and I’d watch one with you Adventure or Western, perhaps a film noir, A comedy suited to my Ma and Pa I like a good Thriller, a detective ......

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Categories: wicks, film,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Season of the sticks
...Why does the longing of lived wax melt clean off your wicks? Oh, how do you hold a capillary existence fending off the ticks? Over and over to lay wasted during the cold times, of treats and trick......

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Categories: wicks, nature, seasons,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member One Flame
... each candle contains a Flame life abounds within its Light Fire when these Flames unite and banishing the darkness warm comfort flows from within drives away the biting cold the wind of d......

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Categories: wicks, death, family, fire, friend,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member Eaters of the Morning Sun
...forest restless fire naked light bleeding mist into the morning and through the silence bury the sun with me in the roots, pin under gravity by the shapeless palm schism of shadows ......

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Categories: wicks, death, fire, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Pickstirrer
...They darken to appear thus Scatter to dissipate in present company it might be seen as entertainment complicated by a lack of understanding dark features with brillant and uninspiring hues t......

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Categories: wicks, culture, friendship, music,
Form: Ballad
Moonchild
...All you ever fed me was cruelty and pain, Starving, I consumed every morsel, every drop I drank. Instructed to stay quiet, Mind my manners and never speak. Never decline what’s been requested, a......

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Categories: wicks, abuse, child abuse, death,
Form: Free verse
Spring Shadow
...Clouds bursting on clouds from the uncured rain, Where stemmed wicks snuff out flower smoke, Fissures that droop so much deeper— The air full of seed will burn out the storm. Where stemmed wick......

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Categories: wicks, angst, deep, humanity, introspection,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member A petal opens
...Our auras caress, heart lotus awaiting touch, that love may blossom within. The light that ignites candle wicks in hearts barren, is magic God Himself wields.......

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Categories: wicks, love, magic,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Not Ready Yet
...Not Ready Yet Give me just one more day of Christmas jubilee Not ready to let go of Christmas, yet Or stop gathering flecks of stardust Scattered from the Heavens Still reveling in the sweet......

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Categories: wicks, christmas, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Candles
... Two candles lit Friday night the husband's, the wife's The wife's cooked and cleaned the husband's learned and dreamed (He's learned the Torah). Separate task......

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Categories: wicks, holiday, husband, jewish, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gnarled
...gnarled hands ignited, with the maelstrom of belief. knotty knees do bend. unseen, the heavens opened up, did look beyond the darkness of earth, to see a pin drop. ancient one, in the gnarled ......

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Categories: wicks, prayer,
Form: Choka

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