#lantern poems on Hello Poetry

Solaces Dec 2023

The lines drawn out on the palms of my hands.
Was a map to a place divine that I could not understand.
Intertwined paths and roads.
The maps of my hands seem more like codes.

The first solution was to leave my name behind.
Venture forth nameless and light the way divine.
Walk forth through the shadow veils.
Let your soul set its light sail.

Let the winds of truth take you past the expanse of shadow.
Let the lost ones see your lantern in the lost meadow.
Become the balefire that lights their map home.
Put an end to their aimless roam.

The lost ones have all become lanterns with you.
The veils melt away as the collective light shines true.
The map of my hands was never for one.
The paths and roads intertwined us together to become the sun.

Heaven

#heaven #lantern

SCHEDAR Sep 2022

Amber Moon

Amber Moon, so full
please be still,
do not continue to rise
for the strength of your pull
will command the tears
to break free from the
lonely corners of my eyes

Amber Moon,
stay where you are
don't let our distance
make me reach too far,
While getting sleepy
on the sand,
the eve lays you to rest
upon the palm of my hand

Amber Moon,
the sweet harvest
that feeds my soul
the mystery of
your orange glow
never grows old

#water #lantern #harvest #moon #night #sky

Hiba Mohammed Sobh Nov 2021

Desert Of Moonlight

I walk
through
the desert
of moonlight,
I hold the
lantern of
mine in
the chest,
where
I hear
the
music
of the
stars
unheard
by none
except
the one
whom I
loved
before
I had
known
my
name
as his,
I close
these
eyes of
mine,
I open
my palms,
I ask not
if I am
consciousness
or a walking
dream,
I am
unity,
I imagine
the worlds
of many I
conjure
within my
mind in
the eternal
metamorphosis,
the golden
waves crash,
I am
the dunes
between
dreams
and
reality,
I am the
sands
of time
sifting
through,
I soar
high in
the wind,
from the
cave of
the body,
to the
realms
I hold
as my
own,
here,
rather
than
being
as I,
I am
all.

#desert #moonlight #lantern #chest #music #stars #love #dream #realms #reality

Celestial Tales Mar 2021

Floating lantern

Lilipad ako
Pero hindi dahil sa apoy
Hindi dahil sa kailangan kong lumisan
Hindi para magliwanag ang kalangitan
Hindi para abutin ang buwan
Hindi rin para abutin ang mga tala
Hindi dahil sa'yo
At lalong lalo na—
Hindi para sa'yo.

Lilipad ako kasi gusto ko.
Kasi matagal nang nakatanim ang mga ugat ko sa lupa
At hindi sapat ang lupa para sa mga paang mapaghanap.

#poem #lantern #love #untold #fire

Sally A Bayan Oct 2020

Butterflies and Grasshopper

^ ^ ^

I meant to write about two
black and white butterflies,
resting upon the thick leaves
of my Norfolk island pine tree,
i planned to write about
a grasshopper, camouflaged by
the green grass on the front yard,
i almost crashed its body, if it hadn't
leapt before i stepped on it...
i was thinking of turning on the
christmas lights this monsoon season,
for an early holiday start.

i focus on happy scenes,
on good times past...because,
i miss those times, and
i long for them to come back...

there are some things i couldn't fix,
which i think, gave birth to this
pain inside my tummy.
to not know what happens next,
scares me so.

and so, i keep trying...to write of
butterflies and grasshoppers,
and
i might just hang a lantern,
instead.

Sally

Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
October 12, 2020

#christmaslights #lantern #somethingicouldntfix #butterfliesandgrasshoppers

Lane O Aug 2020

Fireflies

Fireflies in a jar
A lantern to light my path
Keep bright the dark night

#nature #fireflies #haiku #night #light #firefly #bright #lantern

Hiba Mohammed Sobh Feb 2020

Lantern

I am the traveler
holding the
glow close,
the heart
is a lantern,
the light
through the
crevices
of my soul,
it’s home
was once the
constellations,
and through
the white
petals, I
became
it, and
journey
to seek
the ones
to hold it
with me.

#traveler #glow #heart #lantern #light #crevices #soul #home #constellations #white