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Best Floodlit Poems

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Premium Member Floodlit Finale
A
son et
lumiere-
cricket  fills the
night....

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Categories: floodlit, sports,
Form: Lanterne



Premium Member The Day She Disappeared
A collaboration between Paul Callus & Carolyn Devonshire
 
Where were you when she disappeared?
Is the moment caught in your mind?
Were you nervous as the day...

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Categories: floodlit, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Have Done With It
Have you ever played with it?
Even if just a bit.
Or thrown it.
Because you were in a snit.
Did you ever eat it?
Then throw out the pit.
Or...

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Categories: floodlit, fun,
Form: Free verse
The Singer
In the dark she is waiting, 200 kilos of velvet
separating one world from the other.
It was art to her, she was under no pretence,
she was...

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© Jon K   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floodlit, cancer, friend, friendship, loss,
Form: Free verse
The Seconds
The Seconds 

[Excerpts]

 
(c) 2019, Anita Lerek
 
 
 
Section 1/4

First Generation - Before the Holocaust 

 
Lvov, Poland 1930s.  Mother, you were a...

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Categories: floodlit, bereavement, conflict, death, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative



Our Sunshine State
Rainforest, sparkling white sand
And friendly country towns
Man eating crocodiles
Outback and Darling Downs
The awe inspiring Barrier Reef
And tropic Moonlight nights
Bushland animals and solitude
The heat the earth...

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Categories: floodlit, places, earth,
Form: Verse
Ambiguities of Hydrocarbons
A pointing stick on a pointing curve is a bit treacherous especially after rain. But if a rainbow is a grinning sky and a moon...

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Categories: floodlit, anger, anxiety, art,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The River
I can hear the slow
thump and thrash
of a ship's propeller 
churning the dark and see
the sheer black wall
of a hull slide by,
gathering the river in
like...

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Categories: floodlit, river,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Santa's Unseemly Parade
Santa arrived on our street yesterday
spewing considerable exhaust
while riding atop a parade of firetrucks and vans,
floodlit like a nativity display at night,
full sirens and blaring...

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Categories: floodlit, christmas, giving, humor, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
Pop
Popplecoook met popplwwock on a jacket mending mission to a culinary planet. It was varied and various. The threads that were woven. To entice a...

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Categories: floodlit, arabic, baby, beach,
Form: I do not know?
Auto De Fe' At Plaza Mayor
Sixteen-Eighty was brutal on saints and their hissing cats.
A turgid June, thickened as it was by an immature sanguinary wine
failed to quench the civil mob.

Above...

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Categories: floodlit, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What I Remember
Flashback to an enchanted time in my life
So long ago forgotten any trace of strife
A dogeared corner to a most favorite page
Four rainbow budgies and...

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Categories: floodlit, animal, appreciation, bird, joy,
Form: Rhyme
In the Night
It always amazes me, the small things,
they come together to make something so big,
a snowball effect, a conglomerate,
that can be repeatedly shattered and put back...

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© Jon K   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: floodlit, bullying, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Auto Da Fe At the Plaza Major
Auto-da-fé at Plaza Major



Sixteen-Eighty was brutal on saints and their hissing cats.
A turgid June, thickened as it was by an immature sanguinary wine
that failed to...

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Categories: floodlit, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Long Haul Home
A desire sets off
towards a place far inland whose spires
lift like raised pikes on the horizon.
There is always a "somewhere" hanging
in the sky above your...

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Categories: floodlit, home,
Form: Free verse

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