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Best Alight Poems

Below are the all-time best Alight poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of alight poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Canyon Reverie Constanza
I stop to watch the eagle soar.
At dawn his silhouette flies high
Through brilliant tinted scarlet sky.

Below the gorge at valley’s floor,
The creatures rise up one...

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Categories: alight, autumn, nature, wind,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Garden
My garden is such a colourful sight,
with pretty roses and scented sweet peas.
An abundance of blooms, what pure delight!

Beautiful butterflies gently alight
on flowers dancing on...

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Categories: alight, beauty, butterfly, flower, garden,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Gothic Love Grind
I find you alone
in your favorite room of sorrow and suspense,
the woman I cherish more than victory or divine sense,
long untouched, you stare into a...

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Categories: alight, gothic, love, passion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Snowflakes
Snowflakes

Sunlight glistens off crystal snowflakes
As they float and flutter through the sky
Like butterflies in their freedom of flight,
Never knowing where they might alight.
They leave us...

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Categories: alight, beauty, metaphor, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Roses Are Red - Collaboration With Ralph Sergi
ROSES ARE RED

The flower’s crimson cerise hue
creates the petal’s grand debut
of love and memories to recall
my florid sanguine gift of all

VIOLETS ARE BLUE

Azalea breath with...

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Categories: alight, flower, nature, romantic,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: alight, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In the Mood
lately, i have been in this female mood
for some kind of abandon, that
which exhales the tigress fire
out of my lungs digging the veins
from a week's'...

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Categories: alight, adventure, woman,
Form: Light Verse
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: alight, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wax and Ink
Staying near to light my way
     now that there is no more day
You're needed to so brightly burn
   ...

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Categories: alight, inspiration, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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Categories: alight, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Golden Leaves of Autumn Delight
Golden leaves of autumn delight
Where season flaunts hints of romance
Blazing passions of smitten sight
As themes chromatic swirl and dance.

Charming dreams of romantic eyes
Golden leaves of...

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Categories: alight, autumn, imagery,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Fault Is Not In the Poet
Fingers tremble,
like an alcoholic without a bottle.
His pen is graceful in its slumber,
but imprisoned ink desires to be free -
intoxicated by his poetry.

Lips are forever...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alight, analogy, angst, introspection, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beauty of Night
Breezing purple vibes of nocturnal delight
Eventide’s afterglow blushes sanguine night
As leaves chromatic swirl, waltzing to alight
Bestowing gilded motifs on dreamy sight
Sprinkling ebullience on meadows aglow
Exuberant...

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Categories: alight, beautiful, imagery, night,
Form: Rhyme
Were It Ever Love
an ardent desire of flames was burning
its passion held captive within our hearts
the temple of bodies arced in yearning
when fingers became restless like mozart's
melodies played...

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Categories: alight, death, true love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Cardinal and Rose
Rose, in your redolent, roseate glow -
your firelight petals like hearth of home -
I alight with messages from beyond walls of night,
imparting hope over din...

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Categories: alight, butterfly, rose, visionary, world,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs