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Backlit Poems - Poems about Backlit

Premium Member What the Morning Leaves Behind
...I woke this morning to the thick breath of heat, a humid Sunday rising slow as regret. The tulip tree leaves hung there, backlit like stained glass in a forgotten chapel, and beneath the saggi......

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Categories: backlit, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chiaroscuro
...Backlit in life’s shadows – the exacting burden of responsibilities – you are lost. Bathed in light amongst shadows of trials and tribulations that internal hope defrosts; one can but surmise ......

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Categories: backlit, appreciation,
Form: Other



Strength in the Silence
... The trees, backlit by the moon’s glow sway with the promise of rain. Wash away tears of yesterday, bring in peace to calm the pain. As shadows creep around scattered roots, and secrets rest on......

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Categories: backlit, depression, heartbreak, nature, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Sun's Rosy Vicinity
...Little Arabella Miller lived in town, but far enough out in green country, To watch the raspberry sun go down, and to climb a lavish, plum tree. Arabella was seven-years-old, and had a th......

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Categories: backlit, beautiful, color, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member ClouDrive
... Wolf. Puma. Long-necked (or was it long-bodied?) Dragon. Forest...Fire. A Bunny, cute - and on its back. A Bounding Fox with Seaspray Fluff of Following Tail. A long-nosed Fel......

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Categories: backlit, dream,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member After Fresh Silver Raindrops
...Colors now shimmer in golden, backlit mist where blue hydrangeas and red roses coexist Purples and oranges adore a fresh morning. Flighty trouble has, at last, gone away, riled Since th......

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Categories: backlit, beautiful, bird, color, flower,
Form: Tercet
Premium Member MY HIKU COLLECTION
...2007 * the country stile hedged the wild flower meadow where I sit awhile * shadows in the sky- fluttering across my eye a brown butterfly * on the wind,a bell- muffled from across the squ......

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Categories: backlit, poetry, word play,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Slender Girl
... Moon was there (slender girl, backlit by stars?) when Sun, languishing atop the sea, seduced the zaftig Earth......

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Categories: backlit, beauty, betrayal, earth, moon,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Bon Voyage
...The story goes that men have only one thing on their mind But down throughout the ages there are men far more refined Sometimes man is called upon to do the righteous thing And carry out the wish......

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Categories: backlit, rain, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grandma's Magical Quilt
...A silhouette Backlit by glowing silver-gray Lanky shadow Lurking in my bedroom doorway Arms stretch down, impossibly long Deformed joints, disturbingly wrong Pretending sleep Muscles strain......

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Categories: backlit, childhood, family, fear, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whisper
...we keep away from the racket street noise, huffing and puffing to whisper intimately, a lilt of catchy its weight of dandelions seeded an ebb and flow of what others thinly imagine we whisper ......

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Categories: backlit, bird, feelings, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Total Blackout
... Eclipse of the disco ball, a full floor drank that rhythm on ice; Total Blackout; Will they get out, CAN they get out? 88 Keys to dance on, awash with a psychedelic trance; Unable to sho......

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Categories: backlit, dance, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Haiku X 296 - january -
... flames of crystal ice the aura of purity - backlit by sunlight ......

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Categories: backlit, beauty, january, nature, winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Backlit
...Backlit The light behind Is not behind Except in the Conventional way.. If not behind Separation stumbles Paradox suggests Not-knowing Appearing as Backlit.. Rivers ......

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Categories: backlit, happiness, words,
Form: Light Verse
Upon the Heath
...After the greedily laden cirrus' lighten their loads, a dog day returns to our suburban sanctuary. As the mercury ascends like a climber captured in a glass tube, the heath's heady aromas revoke o......

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Categories: backlit, nature,
Form: Free verse

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