Best Glimmer Poems

I've been listening to your eyes 
for what feels like eons,
noticing how the rain cries
unto your purposeful lips,
excited also, by the sounds of your
beautiful breaths in the smooth sunlight,

Tapping the pool of love blood,
rippling rose restless
to the edge of a frozen bloom
where the youth of...

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Written: April 13, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France

Quote: "Let the water settle and you will see the moon and stars mirrored in your being," By Rumi

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Oat flakes float over the pale golden sky,
A white moon floats easily...

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It should not have surprised me when I woke,
laying in the hospital bed, white sheets,
bandages, heart monitor, IV yoke,
nurses, and three empty visitor seats.
Psychiatrists asked questions, prescribed pills,
forced meetings, demanded group therapy,
attempted to find the root of my ills,
declared depression, and then set me free.

It...

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In the blink of an eye of eternity,
with ceaseless Darwinian stride 
from our earliest stage to modernity,
we dwelt on this earth and we died…

It wasn’t our land though we thought so
while stomping about in our frets.
We rhetorized peace, yet we fought so
throughout our begats and...

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It's worth a shot, they said
And you have nothing to lose
Hundreds of tries
Or hundreds of failures
It doesn't matter
So stop counting till you do it
Or keep going till you get it


The more you dream, the more you dream
Don't let them steal your night!
And when you wake...

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A  GLIMMER
  There is a Glimmer of hope that will come one day,  
We will find that Love has finally found its way.
   There will be Joy again and no more lonely nights,
Living with sadness and sorrow doesn't seem right.
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Will we ever be free from a world of 
crime, murder and poverty.

 This is a real but sad state of affairs and is reality today.
I just heard of another stabbing there has been so many 
lately, it makes you feel bitter inside as you...

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Conception kept secret from all was her will
Piteous youth just unlucky naught imbecile
On the dismal threshold of despair and heartaches
Bloodstained rugrat born into poverty and shame till
Suckling infant in her arms maternal love suddenly awakes



Submitted on October 1, 2017 for contest RHYME TIME WITH 5...

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The last glimmer of light fades away,
into the darkening gloom of night. 
Bringing about the end of the day.
Another will begin at first light.

Night has taken its place,
to rule the hours before dawn.
Creeping into every space,
where light has since withdrawn.

A silvery gray mist fills the...

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Sun peeks from behind tree line.
Soft remnant of cold day
Which did not warm up until late afternoon.

Last bit of optimism
Slipping away fast 
With glimmer of sun.

Making room for cold, dark, evening.
Moon smiles, recognizing
Sun’s deference to his authority....

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Cherish the glimmer.
Obey and live for the luster
The shimmering glimmering.
Happily EYES were of STARS.
Gleeful legally  GLAD of the shine
No flaws, nothing but bold superiority.
On  the CUSP OF unwavering equal to
PRESCIOUS green emeralds.
Essentially, sensationally, GAYFULLY, GLISTENING,
GLORIOUSLY, GLIDING, dancing on the  face of
The moon...

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Each of us is but a faint shimmer of the Eternal Light;

        some a bit more radiant than most in the deepest, darkest night;

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The days of bleeding light are disgusting
Endless vacations around the sun
Just to put me in the emptiness and the vortex
To let the reflected light and fog penetrate
The roots of suffocating time
 So that we may be granted a new beginning.

I'm trying to find a way...

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No one to hold, leave home I had been told 
A parent teen who lives in Bordesley Green 
It was so cold only sixteen years old
No nicotine, no partner to be seen.

And Social Service, made me quiet nervous
They served me gruel for lunch with arsenic...

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All Eternity

I walked down a path,
which lead to a stream,
it travelled far and wide.
Then came rivers and lakes,
which eventually lead to the sea.

I followed this path,
which lead to all eternity,
my destiny's end I could see!
This path of wisdom and hope,
a glimmer of sunshine was waiting...

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