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Alights Poems - Poems about Alights

The Wrong Train

...London fog, harshly early with strained warning,
Looms all over the image of the hectic city
There’s the smell of mists and the taste of
Frozen rain gathered before dawn.
Pulses brake and start,
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Categories: alights, city, journey, london,
Form: Free verse

Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Spring 2

...Matsuo Basho English Translations of haiku about spring, birds, bats, butterflies, flowers, sun, cherry.

Seeing them naked
almost makes me caress
the wanton flowers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation ...
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Categories: alights, bird, butterfly, culture, earth,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberAccident or Design

...The fish needs the anemone; the anemone, the fish 
The pollen needs to be the bumble bee’s most precious wish
There’s fishes that frequent the mouths of huge man eating sharks
There’s places where...
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Categories: alights, creation, faith, god, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDETACHED Part 2, A Female Humanoid Awakening , A Music Video 4K

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"DETACHED" is not just a song—it's a rebellion from within. This hauntingly music video explores the clash between cold circuitry and the chaos of emotion in a world where artificial intelligence...
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Categories: alights, conflict, confusion, emotions,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberA Robin and her Nest

..."Predators lurk in darkness. Sometimes however cautious we are, they jump upon us to play havoc. We build dreams, but never know when cruel fate comes to shatter them. Life is so unpredic...
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Categories: alights, bird, cat, sad,
Form: Quintain (English)



Premium MemberTEN lines from TEN poems

...your smile entranced me
as a spontaneous moment alights
to a rapport on first sight

in our daily stroll,our
words became a promise
embedded in our hearts-

mouths join,impa...
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Categories: alights, love, romance,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberTime Traveler

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My omnipresent spirit observes man's zonal realms
In star-studded cast of aureoles...a  diverse culture in motion,
Which alights into Borealis songs, their haunting lore, their generati...
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Categories: alights, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

As It Is So

...As it is so, so it will be – 
The bird takes wing, the bumblebee
Seeks out the blooming flower
With all its bumbling power,
Alights and gathers, then departs –

The bee, the bird are worlds apa...
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Categories: alights, bird, butterfly, flower,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Dance of Dances

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For Miranda Hawley's Dance Of...Contest


Cleared from mistakes past ,he greets love reclaimed
His ardor fierce as dreams untethered swing.
Moments of anger, jealousy  now tamed:
Again, night...
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Categories: alights, dance, marriage,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberA Hint of Hope

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She gazes past the golden fields 
beyond the wheat that summer yields 
above the solitary oak, so still
where a lazy hawk, with circles fill. 

He feels the drifts in windswept skies
her soul...
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Categories: alights, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Flower and the Butterfly

...The Flower and the Butterfly

In the subtle softness of dawn’s embrace,
A tender flower reclines upon her garden bed,
Enshrouded in the veil of morning mist,
Which caress her form like the softe...
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Categories: alights, beauty, desire, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme

Unsettling premonition kickstarts fiendish abomination

...Unsettling premonition kickstarts fiendish abomination

Consider the following 
dogmatic, enigmatic, fantastic, 
idiotic, jargonistic, kimetic, linguistic,  
narcissistic, opportunistic,
poetic...
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Categories: alights, adventure, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Grieving Ancient City

...In ancient China's heart, a tale unfurls,
Where sorrow's grip ensnares the Yellow River's curls.
From four hundred thousand to nine hundred grand,
In nineteen thirty-eight, despair swept the land....
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Categories: alights, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSon, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

..."A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand." 

(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)...
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Categories: alights, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberOn a Thesaurus Diet

...like a ruderal flower  
thoughts persist 
resilient 
the ultimate foil 
for single marcescent leaf 
that's induvial
as ingrained habits 
distilled 
as a smur alights  
on the minds 
convolu...
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Categories: alights, analogy, nature, philosophy,
Form: Suzette Prime

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