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Best Floodlights Poems

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Premium Member The Fiddler's Cat
An ebon sky, darkness to light
Diamond stars, mosaic night
Bright lunar sphere of brilliant white
Floodlights a scene of will and might.
The Fiddler’s Cat, sips warm Bordeaux
Fiddle...

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Categories: floodlights, imagination,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Mindful
Mindful  

Startled out of nonchalant light,
Wakefulness stands at attention
Ignited flame from the eternal candle,
Energized vigil of the watchman
At the soul’s dawning daybreak
Tingling in the...

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Categories: floodlights, blessing, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Neon Night: Urban Sonnet
Above, the shrill of neon lights portend
a promise of new love in garish hues,
but for a broken life yet on the mend
the darkness of the...

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Categories: floodlights, imagery, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
In Praise of Anonymity
You flowered in the shade.
Headlights and floodlights
slid off your retiring shadow.
Occasionally the spotlights flare
lit-up your solitary walk
but only the footprints
you left fleetingly on flowing water.

I...

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Categories: floodlights, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Would You Love Me If I Wasn't a Poet
I didn’t see the moon in a pearly hue.
The ocean’s waves weren't a deep azure blue.
If the meadows didn’t sing a soft gentle tune.
In a...

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Categories: floodlights, love,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member August Trance
Watching the clouds at dusk
   and the deer in flight. . .
      I wait for these beauties to...

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Categories: floodlights, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Green Spanish Eyes - Part 1
Ah Consuela! Invoking vast vistas for visions of green Spanish eyes,
I discern them again where she left me back then,
                 as we kissed when she...

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Categories: floodlights, bird, dark, green, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enola Gay
Enola Gay

There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under...

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Categories: floodlights, education, history, usa, war,
Form: Verse
A Story About a Bird
"THE BIRD CANNOT FLY"

No matter how hard he flaps his wings body won’t lift,
is it obesity or small wings?
He shouldn’t devour the food mother 
fed...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floodlights, age, bird, life, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Ocean Walk - Part 2
As the sun dips lower in the sky
And the ocean turns a deeper hue
Families pack up their children
Pails, shovels, blankets and shoes

The life guard closes...

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Categories: floodlights, nature, ocean, summer,
Form: Ballad
The Lights of Christmas
I ran a string of lights across my roof they twinkled very nicely,
So I wrapped some trees out in the back, six of them precisely.

I...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floodlights, funny, house, house,
Form: Light Verse
Pick Up the Torch
had Julian been even a sparkle in his 
mom’s eyes
when Ray put the pen to Fahrenheit 451,
one might have witness the light being 
passed
straight from...

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Categories: floodlights, life, work, work,
Form: Free verse
Lover's Leap
Just around the bend
Hopes to blithely blend
Libidos vigorously ascend
Seeking Lover's dividend

Below, town lights the solemnity doth amend
Above, translucent stars romance suspend
Precipice, a lofty adventure doth...

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Categories: floodlights, romance
Form: Rhyme
The Night Sky
In the night sky of floating

ice, burning rocks, emerges

a disk of pale quartz, lit

by halcyon sun lamp;

in the wings, floodlights-

glassy emanations of

white diamonds squeeze

from the...

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Categories: floodlights, sky,
Form: Free verse
Attack
ATTACK

I can still see their faces
mouths open screaming silent screams
silenced by the loud barking 
of weapons, theirs and ours;
sudden explosions rendering moot
intensity of automatic fire.

They...

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© Jw Nugent  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floodlights, anger, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things