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Best Guiding Light Poems

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Premium Member Ungrateful Child
I woke up that day with tears in my eyes,
after I heard about your father's demise.
Guess you've never understood,
the point of being his blood.

I remember...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guiding light, anger, death, death of
Form: Rhyme



A New Beginning
with each crest of a wave
forming white crystal peaks
she weeps, inhales, let's go.

beneath a star studded vista
a resplendent guiding light
arms open, palms up, she is...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guiding light, emotions, grief, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse
Midnight Hour
Into my dreary days
Rode hope on scented lines
In this pool of darkest deep
So bleak.. only love could find
A world of suffocating stench
Pulls me closer to...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guiding light, dark, deep, depression, dream,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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Categories: guiding light, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Starstruck In Your Deep Beauty
In your beauty, striking jewels within your light 
If I where to go into another world 
Searching behind each and every fold 
Wrapped up inside...

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Categories: guiding light, beautiful, beauty, flower, love,
Form: Free verse



Dont Fade
NOTE:  This poem means a lot to me for it brings back memories of my childhood. My father, a WWII veteran was, in my...

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Categories: guiding light, children, family, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stars In Your Eyes
Never- have I ever imagined this,
                   ...

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Categories: guiding light, emotions, heart, light, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Midnight Walk
Vibrant twilight colours drain
from transcending skies.
Black velvet blankets remain;
luminous stars rise.

Tread lightly, darkness is here.
Such an eerie night,
promise me to remain near;
be my guiding light.

Shadows...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guiding light, love, night, romantic, romantic
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Celtic Shadows: Collaboration With Mike
The shadows lengthen as comes Celtic night, 
you are in my arms at the end of day, 
my eternal beauty, my guiding light.

We shall be...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guiding light, emotions, love,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Uplifting
Make a difference in somebody's life
Touch a lonely soul as it silently cries
Be the one who lifts to let someone rise

Comfort the children who have...

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Categories: guiding light, uplifting,
Form: Terzanelle
A Rainy Train Journey - Happy Father's Day
A sudden rain
cloaked the rail path
Lightning strikes were furious
Thunder storms drum big
Windows drenched in rain
Unable to see the scenes
Uncertain about the future 
As we were...

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Categories: guiding light, daughter, father daughter, fathers
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unsupervised Stop Sign
There was a time, when the sun was our guiding light,
amidst clouds of twilight that paint our skylines bright. 
There were no misleading traffic signals,
halting...

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Categories: guiding light, angst, deep, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Warriors' Hymn
Lord, place Thy Hand on the yoke of those who fly,
And guide them through the vast reaches of the sky.
Bring them safely through their perilous...

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Categories: guiding light, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Guess It's Over
Never thought it would be easy
After all these years
You’d leave me all alone
To face my lonely fears

Promised me the earth
When I became your bride
Said we...

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Categories: guiding light, break up, for him,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Christmas With Christ To Look Upon His Face
To Look Upon His Face
Nativity of Jesus


Oh! Starry twilight this December night
Guiding light glows so up high
Moonlit shadows slow dance
Shooting stars flashing close by

Angel's sweet...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guiding light, angel, baby, inspirational, night,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs