Best Floodlit Poems
Below are the all-time best Floodlit poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of floodlit poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
floodlit, sports,
Form:
Lanterne
The Day She DisappearedA 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
Have Done With ItHave 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 SingerIn 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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Categories:
floodlit, cancer, friend, friendship, loss,
Form:
Free verse
The SecondsThe 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 StateRainforest, 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 HydrocarbonsA 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?
The RiverI 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
Santa's Unseemly ParadeSanta 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
PopPopplecoook 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 MayorSixteen-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
What I RememberFlashback 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 NightIt 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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Categories:
floodlit, bullying, dark, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Auto Da Fe At the Plaza MajorAuto-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
The Long Haul HomeA 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