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Best First Light Poems

Below are the all-time best First Light poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of first light 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: first light, autumn, nature, wind,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Nature's Way Constanza
Nature's Way Constanza

Sol puts to sleep the hills with light
     while gloaming sheds all fading rays
     and...

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Categories: first light, day, nature, night,
Form: Rhyme
I Am But a Grain of Sand
"Happiness and sorrow ebb and flow like waves upon a beach, 
and I am but a grain of sand."
      ...

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Categories: first light, character, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gentle Summer Rain
She writes about Fall's beauty in the rain 
The falling raindrops' dance ascribing thence 
Bespoken verse that lightens her refrain 
before the time they met...

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Categories: first light, beauty, care, creation, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Poetry As a Form of Therapy
The walls of the doctor's office
Are blue.
Blue is a color that's supposed to
Calm, to soothe.
The doctor and the nurse both have
Blue eyes.

They are telling me
About...

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Categories: first light, depression, poetry,
Form: Narrative



In the Forthcoming Years
i sit here
within the iridescent glow of trees
beneath the lambent light
of this harvest moon
thoughts twirling
like leaves in summer's breeze
knowing another year
we will soon have aged
as...

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Categories: first light, future, rain, sky, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas With Family
"Sometimes miracles happen when you're least expecting them. 
Quote by poet." 




It was the week before Christmas; it was a cold, bright snowy day
Told the...

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Categories: first light, christmas, december, family, pets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member An Emerald, Most Rare
It was glorious ...

A glorious, glowing morn ...
crimson crept up the sky, as if air-brushed ...
little round globs of fair-weather clouds tiptoed on the reach,
(so...

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Categories: first light, beauty, color, memory, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member This Moonlit Night
On the balcony I stand this moonlit night
Behind me she sleeps content within sight

If I stand to my left, allowing the moons pass
This lunar beam...

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Categories: first light, beauty, happy, love, moon,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Children of the Sun
Tomorrow's dawn will start the longest day
When summer takes the torch and starts to run
He'll summon all the children of the sun
His followers that love...

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Categories: first light, appreciation, summer, sun,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"



Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly...

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Categories: first light, dream, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Five Letter Words
Often women dream about famed lover sweet
While stars shine above mused quiet meets
Coded notes given neath party arbor
Eager hands which cause fresh ardor
These alter truth...

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Categories: first light, desire, dream, feelings, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Displaced In Kathmandu
Our dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its...

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Categories: first light, anxiety, fear, war, ,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Love Haiku
first light rain -

slippery is the path 

of fragile love               ...

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Categories: first light, love,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Yellow Curtain
The curtain in my room is pale yellow, 
           With unique embroidered golden leaves on...

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Categories: first light, love, mothers day, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs