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Light Poems | Examples of Light Poetry

Light Poems - Examples of all types of light poetry to share and read. This list of light poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of light poetry. This list of works about light is an excellent resource for examples on how to write light poems.
Premium Member The Muses
"The Muses" Allusions camouflaged confessions I have read them all, each page envelopes emptied turned inside out pockets of Poésies they sprinkle their messages like confetti, minds popping like corks, frothy and overflowing some kind celebration cupped and bled stories...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Emailed you a Tinkerbell Giftcard
I emailed you a Tinkerbell gift card, she told me. Great! I have to look at email. Not easy. there are 438, 348, 112 unread emails in my in-box. I use the search, but cannot find it. I call her...Read the rest...
Categories: light, computer,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member enticed by kicking feet
my feet are kicking high in the air now the scissor step making an arabesque design my first and last husband sees this as sexy everything I say and do has been sexy since the minute he began coveting me When I...Read the rest...
Categories: light, husband,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Do you want to Cogitate it
Do you want to cogitate it? He asks me. How did he know I do that? I was not cognizant of this myself. There is relief when I look up the word cogitate....Read the rest...
Categories: light, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Old Rotary
*PV - Proverbial Verbiage The Old Rotary Dialing out…zzzzip…zzzzzzzip…zzzzzzzip and zip…zzip…zzzip…zzzzip and brring… long distance was not a thing for children. they could only ring those within their corridor ching…ching money didn’t grow on trees the grown up made sure we were wise or they’d wise up our behinds but...Read the rest...
Categories: light, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Every Tunic’s Tucked
EVERY TUNIC’S TUCKED squeamish that every tunic’s tucked on one side, lopsided, uncouth on the page, in the book - why is every model told to tuck her hand inside her pocket, jam her socket into her pants, plunge me into...Read the rest...
Categories: light, angst, clothes,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Lux
"The Lux" we entered The Club danced our way along lines trialled sentences all written towards Light the Dark called us all in we thought we were like laureates like laureates we were all drugged one way or another on...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The condo Kookaburra's
Every thing was fine. No one complained, and then one fated day the Kooka burra's came.. People who never learned to keep in their own lane. They never read our regs., which is very plain, at first they claimed one...Read the rest...
Categories: light, 1st grade, people, perspective,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member What is real
What is real? Pure love and light It’s the truth absolute Invoke grace, imbibe bliss delight In silence resolute Minus form, who are we Know this dear and be free Rest thought, with clear sight see Don’t think, just feel What is real...Read the rest...
Categories: light, love, spiritual, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Can Be a Luminary
Stitch up my soul, with threads of the moon, so as night falls, as it’s sure to, soon, I can be a luminary, roaming, in her runes. ...Read the rest...
Categories: light, analogy, extended metaphor, identity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member After the Party
After the party I woke up on a tropical island, it was such a nice scene, until I realized that what I was seeing was my own shower curtain in the room where I passed out after hugging the toilet bowl and puking!...Read the rest...
Categories: light, hilarious,
Form: Light Verse
Truth and Light
When the light comes on roaches will scatter Scampering for the nearest crack, crevice or hole When gossip comes to a deaf ear there's an abrupt stop to all chatter Expeditiously in comes the judge allowing truth to...Read the rest...
Categories: light, dark, integrity, judgement, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The sands of time
The sands of time Sand castles Sand is the word Inexplicable To seemingly mold Itself into time We are Sand......Read the rest...
Categories: light, art, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Critterature: The Saga of Veronica Vole
This is the saga of Veronica Vole Who committed the perfect crime. She murdered three lovers, But not all at once, She did 'em in one at a time. The first was a lemur, A two-timing schemer, Who seduced all thirteen of...Read the rest...
Categories: light, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member THE HEIFER TAKES THE LEAD
two cows come down a hill; they’ve come down before; and again they shall… unless Noah finds them wandering off takes them under his wing of two by two; enjoys the milk of she & the horny glance of he & the frightened glimpse...Read the rest...
Categories: light, angst, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Specific Types of Light Poems

Read wonderful light poetry on the following sub-topics: bright, candle, christmas, dark, darkness, funeral, inspirational, love, red, science, and more.

Definition | What is Light in Poetry?


Book: Reflection on the Important Things