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Best Enlightening Poems

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


Premium Member The Enlightening
The graveyard, shrouded in pale mist, so hauntingly eerie,
dampen spirits as the full moon loses her glow - dreary!
I float, like a vapour, amongst lifeless,...

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Categories: enlightening, grave, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: enlightening, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Woes and Throes of Sorrow
I rise and fall like melancholy tides
in ebb and flow of wistful disrepair,
our separate in consciousness divides,
the whiff of grief fills broken-hearted air.

Neglected now, heartstrings'...

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Categories: enlightening, emotions, heartbreak, loneliness, lost
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Music To My Ears
When life is like an evanescent dewdrop,
spirits fade like ashes in a cimmerian shade

but then you smile, 
enlightening like a crescent moon,
sparkling in silent serenity.

My...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enlightening, love, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member October Sun
Ascending above sanctum of horizon, a dawn inflames the effulgent rays,
Enlightening daybreak as embers of light set the scarlet morning ablaze
Projecting golden beams on hushed...

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Categories: enlightening, autumn, imagery, sun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Back To the Beginning
What is the meaning of it all?
If I told you, you’d surely bawl.
Cry like a baby, yes you would,
If all of truth you understood.

Truth can...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enlightening, meaningful, spiritual, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Blue Words
Blue words cry, 
smearing bare 
               paper walls. 
I am only...

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Categories: enlightening, feelings, introspection, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Memories of Youth and Nature, Were a True Blast, In Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Memories Of Youth And Nature, Were A True Blast
In collaboration with Robert Lindley

Beautiful dawn a Nature walk would do one good
Across the flower filled pond,...

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Categories: enlightening, creation, dedication, deep, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Cathedral Lit By Sunset
O, 
how I swoon
in the ruby bliss of your sunset kiss -
your vibrant rays of maturity arouses my fire; 
touching me with urgent rapture,
saturating me...

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Categories: enlightening, appreciation, art, beauty, color,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sea Scars
There’s a story here,

embedded within 

a righteous reef

of broken silence,

where scars remain

engraved on sea stars,

entangled between sand 

in empty oyster shells, 

reminding me

to breathe until...

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Categories: enlightening, deep, life, sad, thank
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stillness
I was a learned meteorologist, studying azure atmosphere and vivid weather,
To give a prophetic daily forecast, like bees gliding remote locales of heather.

Often I had...

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Categories: enlightening, color, fantasy, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Happy Birthday Ink Empress

Since you became an ingredient of soup,
you've become part of a talented group.
With metaphors that amaze and impress,
you've shown the dignity of an Ink Empress.

In a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enlightening, happy birthday, poetess, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Dear Heart
She’s always been a friendly sort
With kindness that I truly adore
With her pen, she never falls short
Always sincere and giving more

I love her verses, filled...

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Categories: enlightening, appreciation, friend, friendship, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From Here to There and Back
What is the meaning of it all?
If I told you, you’d surely bawl.
Cry like a baby, yes you would,
If all of truth you understood.

Truth can...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enlightening, creation, meaningful, paradise, power,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member - Angel of Light -
Gazing faraway reaching to the stars twinkle silver 
shooting distant light of life orbiting inside one fantasy 

Blazing hot burning trails upon a flaming kiss...

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Categories: enlightening, angel, beauty, care, dream,
Form: Free verse

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