Best Brightness Poems

Tall, gray, trees stand together like statues
Across the winter’s landscape of hills
Some snow still clings to the arms of branches
Reaching wide, reaching far and wide!
Today, there is no wind in this still life view
Of land, rocks, and trees to dark blue mountains
A strip of pale...

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It was the Eve of a brand new year,
so I’d gone out on my porch to say goodbye
to the prior year, having heard a blue moon should appear.
As I was looking all around me up into the sky,
no sign of a moon at all was...

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I send you these calm, baby blue skies in these words I write
The clouds light up near the horizon, approaching this coming night
It’s peaceful here on a special hill, where I see so many things
And there will be more color soon, with what autumn brings
After...

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the sound wave slips serpentine
isolating notes from the chaotic noise

the ocular ray rebounds on the rock
refracting its boomering-photo of corrugated surface

the pulmonary sponge expands its alveolum
to the sea of pre-prejudice aroma

a hand of outlining mass tolerates its first electric mutation
when caressing the iron rod

a sucker...

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Never was there a scene such as this:
a night full of wonder and brightness!
O holiest child, God
has sent you to redeem us from sin!
O most adored child,
let joy be the hope of every man!
  
Little King,
accept our humble gifts;
we have traveled far...
following that star
through...

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The sun comes over the horizon and I am here
Bringing eternal comfort and shedding fears

Happiness and joy are spread around
I warm up the cold, damp ground

Bringing life and feed the masses
I am so bright that you need glasses

Lighting up cities with a pretty white glow...

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BRIGHTNESS BEMUSED

Hindered and hampered by heartache
Splintered and splattered by the splendor of a seductress
Worn and torn by torment’s temper
I am a burning bridge banned from any buttress 

Haunted and taunted by the vestiges of vagrant romance
Stranded and disbanded by a beauty born of galactic grace
Hurting...

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Bolstered by faith in the path of ethical karma
Indeed, I am grateful for my parents guidance.
Imparting and intercepting a pragmatic dogma.
Do graceful deeds or such will Deity reliance.
 
Spirituality is a means of achieving mental tranquility.
In place of admonishing compliance, cultivate trust.
Sincerity is comparable to...

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A perceived reality seen in light
Leaves a lack of mystery.
Nothing to be wondered or created.
But forfeit this light to the black
And endure a cognizance stimulated.
Nothingness lurks around every corner.
The senses struggle to understand
What is unknown.
Simultaneously, a caged mind
Is free to roam. 
Life engulfed in the...

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Treasure glimmers from within...
People look for its twin... 

Its beholder has a crown on the head...
All eyes look amazed...

For this treasure is the best...
It is the softness of the heart, the care to one, and the pyramids of good attitude...

Those characters when obtained...
Rays of brightness...

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Comfort and bright light
Never shading the obscure
Blind to love awakening
Listening to truth
Keeping my eyes on over
Being concerned with brightness

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Brian Strand's "SIXES AND SEVENS" contest

12/18/2011...

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Spirit light gleams upward the same as a sunbeam,
Limbs lifted in praise as dark succumbs to light,
The splendid burden of glazed sheets, as we resume,
Dissolving bitterness induces serenity and blight.

Limbs lifted in praise as dark succumbs to light,
Swap you up in lovely ecstasy and glorious...

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fly free
unique patterns
decorate stylish wings
making you a beauty breathing
fly free
your brightness highlights life's lightness
as your energy charms
without limits
fly free


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"Please turn off the blinding lights" 

Must close my eyes to see the brightness of my future. 
My today's reality dims the spirit of the hunt. 
Overcasting shadows and shaded grays of life's blunders; 
of many passions, many desires, and many shall-not-wants. 

Cannot dread what...

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A bright star shimmers aloft,
amid the flimsy stars soft;
The Star grins bright,
even in the twilight;
Fellow stars envy,
make the star shies.

A nimbus cloud braces
mysterious moisture, embraces,
the star glittering bright;
Bright star loses all the light,
mislays its power, can't shine,
Now the fellow stars malign.

Yearning for the bright sky
the...

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