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Best Illuminating Poems

Below are the all-time best Illuminating poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of illuminating poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Soul Embrace
Sunlight rains upon my face
Cascading memories cloaked in mystery
Kissing my eyelids
Ancient teardrops glide down my cheeks
Warmth illuminating my hungry soul

A sense of calm
A pulsating ellipse...

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Categories: illuminating, age, child, creation, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: illuminating, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Parallel Poetry
(PoetrySoup Format)


Predictable, practical pose
as a simple sentence suggests,
accepting how the story goes,
while syllables shape silhouettes.

~ Simple scribbles serenade me ~

Paragraphs, hold poise and power
while illuminating...

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Categories: illuminating, poetry, senses, sensual, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...

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Categories: illuminating, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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Categories: illuminating, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Warriors
This one is for the broken,
hiding behind invisible bruising.
For the forgotten and the ones 
who have forgotten us,
like the misunderstood misfits.
Who howl at the moon,
look...

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Categories: illuminating, assonance, dedication, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Space and Time
Entering the doorway through my heart
Following the nuance of space
Allowing expansion ~ mystery ~ and curiosity
To guide me into realms of spiritual awakening
Journeying through moments...

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Categories: illuminating, appreciation, beauty, blessing, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: illuminating, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Day I Became a Poet
I remember the day I became a poet.

In the magnificence of the submerging sun,
I glanced upon her admiring its majesty.
Amidst hues of clementine and lilac,
her...

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Categories: illuminating, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Poetry For Poets: I Own This- Edition
Well hopefully you've read the last "Poetry for Poets", now here's the one I wanted to write, enjoy...

POETRY FOR POETS 
(I own this- edition)

Poems
more organic...

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Categories: illuminating, creation, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desires of the Heart
When my heart
was no longer content in solitude;

I asked;

"Oh my lonely heart, 
what is it that you desire?"

Softly it whispered

for her heart beats to ease...

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Categories: illuminating, dream, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Effervescence
I am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious...

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Categories: illuminating, animal, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When a Poet Falls In Love
If you fall in love with a poet, 
he will love you with all his soul.
His ink will be his sword of affection,
his pen your...

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Categories: illuminating, love, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Fields Become Barren
What has become of me?
Like a madman laughing in the rain,
wandering through fields of barley,
where ghosts whisper my name.

Hesitantly venturing forward,
reluctant to turn back,
loved ones...

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Categories: illuminating, analogy, death,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Silent Reverie
When life becomes confusing,
my only saviour is my 
simple musing.

Susurration of sighs,
reflect sands of time,
like an unbalanced hourglass.

As words lose 
innocent connotations

i drift into my
silent...

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Categories: illuminating, analogy, deep, life,
Form: Free verse

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