Best Flashlight Poems

Ah! Drop your prejudice and hear
I lost my love, fortnights ago
My weeping tears dried-up
Searching for my last name.
With solo flashlight wandering 
Among scattered droplets of war.


First Place in HEXASTICH IT Poetry Contest sponsored by nette onclaud...

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Once upon a time, I believed that earthly men held felicity keys
Myriad of joy one special someone would woo me to rely on
But soft whispers serendipitous of grace, I heard with ease
Steep in thought, I surely had reached zenith of my reflections.

At times I lived...

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The Girls Have All Agreed
On Some Things, All Women Need:
A Supply Source For Our Vanity
… and The Eveready-Flashlight-Battery …

Going Down A ‘Random’ Road
In The Deep of Night, When Life Has Slowed
Down … or Car Comes To A Stop
We Need An Energizer or Copper-Top …

In The...

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late at night when all people dream
the world is not as it may seem

in the daylight things are less scary 
but at night you must be wary

for the darkness that surrounds us all
one misstep and you will fall

into the deep world below
and then you will...

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Flashlight: Stranger in the Gangway


The lack of visitors is uterine
and that is why you porcupine
in this dark corner. Here

who can see the cobra
slither from your lips, spray
the phrases of your mind, 

slip back to its moist nest. 
Here, who can hear the jeer
of cheetah eyes....

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The obstacles and dangers are rarely seen
Walking with no lamp in the cold dark night.
When the big moon hides behind the screen,
Flashlight fills the mood in transparent light.

Beyond the scary realm unseen noises reign, 
From the abandon overgrown world, 
My nature is clear when the...

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I gave him an azure colored flashlight
One of those mag lights that men carry
Always aware, expectant of the need
That arises when we least imagine it will

I didn’t know it then, but it would be years
Over a decade, before I’d see him up close
Again and touch...

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FLASHLIGHT IN THE FOG
~~~~~~~~~~
in the thick of night,
a beam cuts through the stillness—
truth in the whispered fog

the fog holds its breath,
time bends and stretches,
and I am both lost and found

Poem written for and submitted to "Bite Size No. 120" contest, Line Gauthier, sponsor, August 10,...

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