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Jeffrey Mitchell Poems
- A Candle Trying to keep my flame But it’s hard where you ...
- Sun Shine
- Time
- My Beautiful Daughters Independent though you may think, yet ...
- Honey Buzzing along Minding my own business Then I see some...
- Bless A man is watching a beast devour other people. Then ...
- Take Root, Buds I spoke to the soil, To pick and turn the ...
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A Candle
Trying to keep my flame
But it’s hard where you placed me, in a house
With many drafts
Flicker, flicker while I sway from side to side
Casting shadows of my flame dancing on the walls
Surrounded in darkness
My flame dancing from a gust of wind
On a ledge I sit
On top of a fire place mantel
To bring light inside a room
But in the corners where the darkness dwells
Eyes are watching my flame being tossed, to and fro
From a relentless wind
I am trying to keep my flame
In a place where I’m not wanted
Above the darkness I stare ...
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