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Best Backlit Poems

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Backlit
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enter the dragon and the spore.
The mold.
Allergen and Alopecia.
enter the giant ceramic logger and the ballad of the
blown fuse.

This is the outtage...

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Categories: backlit, life
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Haiku X 296 - january -
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Categories: backlit, beauty, january, nature, winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Smiles Follow You
The golden hour for rising has arrived, and there are violet roses in the sky,
So, I bid hello to you, my robust friend, as the...

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Categories: backlit, fantasy, imagery, joy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Cool Back-Lit Clouds
cool backlit clouds
moving rapidly in gray
share winters secrets...

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Categories: backlit, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Haiku
Digital Footprints
one night i dreamt i was surfing in cyberspace &
many images flickered in Adobe Flash
with every movement made, every keystroke &
slide of the mouse to...

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Categories: backlit, life, world, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Peace Sign
(Poem is in the peace symbol, created in 1958 by designer Gerald Holtom, upward V and later chosen by Bertrand Russell. Please read the first...

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Categories: backlit, peace,
Form: Concrete
Put On a Happy Face
Put on a happy face
when I release taut fingers 
from your pallid cheeks.
Promises and empty lies 
are sported clichés
that spoil a silenced vocabulary.
A quieted understanding...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backlit, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ashore
margins stimulate and juxtapose
  edges greet with troubled, disturbing friction
  faraway forces exert influence and combine relentlessly
  how the Sun and Moon...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backlit, beach, environment, humanity, ocean,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nobody Believes Me
Nobody believes me!

We are killing ourselves and each
other everyday.
And no, we don't need a gun.
But, come on, they tell me,
Stop being a party pooper!

No, I...

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Categories: backlit, anger, feelings, internet, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Admirable People
alone inside with me, less than inspirational

  so look out for the more interesting folk

  momentary excitement, the fiery motivational

  beyond the...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backlit, character, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Verse
Match Made In Heaven
My voice
Alive with tone
Yet sharply censored
By a mind's take on years
Of historical notes

Tongue no longer sweetened 
By optomism
Or spiced with
Mischievous humor
Suddenly all I taste is
So...

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Categories: backlit, death, introspection, life, grandmother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Have Done With It
Have you ever played with it?
Even if just a bit.
Or thrown it.
Because you were in a snit.
Did you ever eat it?
Then throw out the pit.
Or...

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Categories: backlit, fun,
Form: Free verse
Too Close For Comfort
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT

Mercury flys in golden winged sandals, 
making a dip in the suns blinding light.
Brilliant dark smudge to snuff out the candles, 
too...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backlit, beauty, nature, planet, science,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Haiku For Today
BEGUILED
a sunset,backlit
sculptures the aboretum-
I ,on 'morrow gaze...

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Categories: backlit, inspirational,
Form: Haiku
Fade To Black
The waves roll in and whisper to the sand. 
Hushed toned tales from mysterious foreign lands. 
Two boats pass red green lights shining bright. 
One...

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© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backlit, nature,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things