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Open Poetry #17

Flicker (a sonnet)

Shadowed_Innersense
Junior Member

since 2001-12-05

Posts 49
somewhere at the edge

0 posted 2001-12-18 01:48 PM

I awake, by flicker of candle light,
my sleep-filled eyes unable to clearly see.
With my first breath I cry out in the night
"where is this place",... I find myself to be.

I grow, by the flicker of candle light,
burning softly ... touching, warming, I play.
Feeding upon the shadows of the night,
yearning, searching the stars to find my way.

I live, by the flicker of candle light,
sometimes captivated by its romance.
Embodied within its eternal sight,
blinding me of its dying circumstance.

For this I must prepare, the coming dawn.
In a flicker of candle light ... I'm gone.

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

1 posted 2001-12-18 02:02 PM

Oh, what an intense write. I hope you are not gone in the flickering of the candle.
Sandra

Son Netier
Member

since 2001-12-11

Posts 116
The Garden State

2 posted 2001-12-18 02:17 PM

Candlelight can spark many emotion, for me it’s usually romance, you’re casting a different light with this sonnet, which I truly enjoyed.

Bill

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