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Best Brights Poems

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Premium Member Be Not Tempted By Gold's Glittering Brights
Be Not Tempted By Gold's Glittering Brights

Where couldst man find rest when heart has deceived
loved ones he wouldst happily give his all,
whilst on dark paths,...

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Categories: brights, conflict, corruption, dark, deep,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Love Has Its Costs
THIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...

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Categories: brights, desire,
Form: Narrative
How Do I Love You
How do I love you… 

How do I love you…
How do I love thee? Let me count again.
I love you to the count of all-star...

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Categories: brights, beauty, love, romance, valentines
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Going Green
Sooner now does daylight fade
and with it a summer die,
as green becomes a brighter shade
and for a short time says goodbye.

A welcomed change of pace
to...

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Categories: brights, autumn, change, color, green,
Form: Quatrain
Prayers With Confession
Prayers with Confusion 

After the sixth day god had created the heavens, earth and man.
The seventh day, god lay.  He looks up as he...

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Categories: brights, bible, caregiving, creation, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme



I Stay a Star
I am the light that brights the sky,
When all the earth is dark and dry.
If you near me you will burn,
While days go on I...

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© John Toyne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: brights, inspirationalme, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member O' Northern Star--
...my reality ceases to run marigold flowers burn
Running along the green horizon
The earth, and every common ground,
Awesome to me just beautiful, hey...
Paralleled in celestial light,
Galaxies...

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Categories: brights, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, imagery,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Sock It To Me Spring
O breezy Spring leaves,
Show-offs of stupendous beauty.
Your breathtaking heights
and swooning low brights,
Puffy delights
As you bud and sway.
You delightfully chill me
Goosebumps on arms
and brace.
Fingertips are nearly...

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Categories: brights, spring, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why Life
Why does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings 
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of...

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Categories: brights, adventure, earth, earth day,
Form: Free verse
My Friend Jim Beam
My Friend Jim Bean

The highway signs go by so fast.
The whole damn night had been a blast.
There's a red light chasing behind me
and wouldn't you...

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Categories: brights, imagination, life, urbancar, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Burly Bear Follows Buzzing Bee
Honey Bear,
I would like to say goodbye
and would appreciate your reply.

Where are you going?

I am going to sing farewell
before my minute hand wears out.

Already,
yet I...

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Categories: brights, allegory, earth, family, health,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Vanity of the Flowers
Blooming colors in shade and sun;
Fragrant elegance, not to be outdone!
In field, garden and flowerpot,
The rose, the violet, and forget-me-not.

Proud and erect upon the stem,
All...

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Categories: brights, beauty, flower, nature, nice,
Form: Personification
Lavish Praise Not Sought
Painful self actualization
quickly brights to light
paltry reasons (with or
without rhyme) a desolate sight
within blinkered mindseye hindsight

grotesque grimace shocks with affright
desolate landscape 
precipitated when airtight
vacuum sealed...

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Categories: brights, dark, desire, memorial, my
Form: Metrical Tale
Gone
What I let go, I seek
Not the thing rather
its substance
Like the light of fire or 
the hope it brights

What I let go, I seek
Not the...

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Categories: brights, death, friendship, life, lost
Form: Verse
Premium Member Alpenglow
The alpenglow of sunset
Puts on its daily show
With changing of the colors
In undulating flow.

I watch in fascination
For each succeeding hue
And wonder if the angels
Are gazing...

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Categories: brights, beauty, nature, sky,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs