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Best Lighthouses Poems

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Premium Member Lonely Lighthouses
Eyes of light beams pierce ocean air
as Neptune rests within his lair.
Sentinels hand-made of stone,
that keepers used to call their home;
guide travelers, sailors on their...

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Categories: lighthouses, appreciation, nature, ocean, poems,
Form: Rhyme



Lighthouses
I’m standing solemnly contemplating 
How ageing lighthouses independents
Have become Maritimes normality 
With beacons becoming statutory 

Now standing shimmering silhouetted
You’re shining flawlessly undemanding
The hopeful monument oblivious...

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Categories: lighthouses, adventure, character, image, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Her Brittle Hands
Another layer of lavender scented lotion
Rubbed in vehement laughter

A quelling of sadness
Covered up in mascara insanity
Livid strokes of feathered paintbrushes

Hoping to see the big picture

She...

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Categories: lighthouses, character, corruption, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beacons of Light
As long as man has lived upon this Earth
     The quest for beacons of light has endured
Primitive cultures, man’s earliest ancestors
...

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Categories: lighthouses, faith, hope, inspirationallight, light,
Form: Quatrain
Let Me Be Your Lighthouse
When the storm is over you
And you feel the ocean waves
Crashing and pushing you around
Let me be your lighthouse

When you feel your strength waning
And you...

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Categories: lighthouses, angst, depression, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse



The Lighthouse - Lighthouse Rhopalic Verse Contest
The coastal lighthouses, intervening
in many dangerous undercurrents. 
it's beacon interacts vigorously 
as vessel realigns, manoeuvring
past many obstacles undistinguished 
by any obvious visionary. 
So sailing faultlessly,...

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Categories: lighthouses, sea,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ode To Earth
I hold dear, this world ,eager with its  changing seasons,
its sunrises, reliable as a conveyor belt.

I cherish its fields made pretty with
cornflowers, bluer than...

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Categories: lighthouses, beauty, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Dot To Dot -
When she takes her life into her own hands
   with fingers that read braille
   from dot to dot
   Refuse...

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Categories: lighthouses, blessing, community, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wonders of Nature
A beach or beaches, so many to explore,
Ocean or sea or bay are viewed, some never seen before
Familiar rocks, lighthouses erected to save lives
Seagulls activity,...

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Categories: lighthouses, beach, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Things of the Sea I Love
Of blues, woven through green threads of water
Layered into a tapestry of wavy depths

Of swirling flashes of silver darting
Between golden sunlit ribbons 

Of jellies floating...

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Categories: lighthouses, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pixie Pixela's Purgatory Rebellion
A young girl’s voice, lost in the data, cries out,
"Why are we here?"

Pixie Pixela, her words soft and low, murmurs,
"This world is yours, dear, a...

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Categories: lighthouses, child, freedom, internet, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sentinels of the Sea

on rocky coastlines
stand historic lighthouses
beacons of safety

protectors of ships
their lights shine far out to sea
upon granite shores

keeping watch each night
sentinels stand on duty
making safe the...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lighthouses, environment,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Once Upon A Time
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A clear spring night. I walk outside glancing up into the sky. The night sky is miraculous, appearing like magic at each sunset, promising to...

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Categories: lighthouses, night, stars,
Form: Free verse
Down the Mountain
Down the pine-studded mountain and towards the sea
Me, mounted on a rickety, swaying, desperately-desiring bus,
Floorboard splotched with rusted holes revealing
tires
Below my feet 
and salted sea...

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Categories: lighthouses, age, culture, mountains, ocean,
Form: Free verse
A Gift For You
You can wrap it, but with 
Only a bow, nothing more.

You can see it from a far,
As it’s lights shine bright.

You can’t hold it in...

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Categories: lighthouses, appreciation, fairy, for him,
Form: I do not know?

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