#candle poems on Hello Poetry

Abbie Argo Sep 2017

irma

"what makes you feel empowered?" "i don't know"
green spirals filled the gap in our noises
i took another drink and made profound eye contact with the ****** mary
her frozen, flickering lips asked me questions i couldn't remember the answers to
are you feeling paranoid yet?
how many times have you been in love?
why does walmart sell religious memorabilia at such a reasonable price?
i ignored her, as i have since i was seventeen, so i'm sure she was used to it by now
i took another drink and smiled as she grabbed my hand and he laughed and she sang and they talked over one another about things that we would forget tomorrow
things that seemed crucial to say right now before the moment slipped away
i let them talk and tried to absorb everything about this small, dysfunctional powwow that filled my heart to its very brim
every part of the circle was so crucial, every word and laugh and sigh and sip so necessary for its completion that i was utterly overwhelmed by my very luck to be alive in a time and place where it existed
i've never felt that way before
when i walked home, the morning was early and damp and covered in the darkest dark i've ever experienced
i saw a candle flickering in a window three stories up like a (relatively speaking) modern day northern star
i turned off my flashlight and walked home in silence, basking in the green glow in the wake of fear and love and pain and joy and destruction

#irma #hurricane #storm #life #alcohol #light #candle #friendship #love #luck

parker Sep 2017

2 poems.

candle headed kids,
melting under pressure.
contorting and dying under the weight of something so bright and important:
a flame.
the burn of a good future just an arms reach away.
the heat of not letting anyone down.
the scorching pain of reaching through the flame,
the one thing destroying them,
just to succeed.
just to not let anyone down.
just to live.
anxious.
forever anxious.

smog headed kids.
they cannot breathe.
their thoughts,
contorting around their lungs,
killing them.
so dark,
so dark in their minds.
the need for pain,
the feeling of undeserving.
no one understands a smog headed kid.
forever choking over their own mind.

whether your head is filled with smog or candle wax, or something else.

#mental #health #illness #depression #anxiety #candle #smog #help #therapist #therapy

Richard Grahn Sep 2017

Candle (re-write)

Burning in the night
A candle waves about.
Puffs of smoke rise up.
The space glows—flickering.

A soothing warmth cuts the darkened space.
She sets to pen and paper then dreams.
Recording her thoughts and soulful musings,
Light flows out across the page.

Here, where time has lost its meaning,
The wick is burning and the wax is melting.
The glow is soothing and her words are moving.
A story grows in the throes of her feelings.

I've been doing some significant editing and re-writing preceding the publication of a book. This poem took on quite a few new turns so I decided to re-post it.

#candle #writing #dreams #feelings

Lady ꓘ Sep 2017

Birthday Blues

Make a wish
Another blown candle
to my so called golden year
Another wish in earths rotation to the same life long inauguration
When is the house and picket fence sent?
In blown candles of wishes after wishes?
Doubt after doubt
it becomes so repetitious ?
When does your pockets grow?
In blown candles of riches after riches
Til you become so poor
you sleep under the bridges
When is love sent?
In blown out candles of loneliness
Carrying a familiar scent to its smokey extinguishment?
Oh life,
Light me up instead
but not like a birthday candle
No, No
Light me like a night candle
Like the flame you wouldn't separate
from its source upon lighting

#life #love #candle

Lyn-Purcell Sep 2017

Fickle

"Are you ok? Your family, Where are they now?"
They are where they are. They follow the winds blown.
"It's so dark! Light a candle here!"
You can light six-and-twenty. Makes no difference. My heart is still dim.
"Don't say such things. You've got your whole life ahead."
Do I?
"Yes."
Would that I could join you. Would that I could be you. I'm deaf to the tolls of my caged heart.

Based on a conversation I heard over the bus.

#fickle #love #pain #hurt #heart #candle #light #dark #depression

mjad Sep 2017

Melt

There is never ending pressure
To be the light in such a darkened society
But what can a candle with no wick do
Besides melt at the heat of another

#pressure #heat #candle #wick #dark #society #light #useless #worthless #melt

Star BG Aug 2017

Candle In Heart

Always there burns a candle in heart,
unaffected by rains of eyes,
or hurricane thoughts.

Always with rays of light
as my light house
guiding my waking days.

Dance oh flame dance,
like lighted torch
when I attempt to go astray.

Dance oh flame with grace
to reboot my smile
reminding me
of my precious soul
of my divine life.

inspired by ALas2

#candle #dance #flame

BR Belle Aug 2017

Things they never taught you about love pt. 1

To love
Is to light a candle in a dark room
And never
Forgetting to light it
Once it goes dark.
.

#love #dark #candle #dont #forget #light #never #match

Gilang Perdana Aug 2017

The Candle, 3

why should blow your own age? —
until the question was smoke, there's
something remains unanswered
: "Happy Birthday!"

#candle #birthday #question