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Best Illumined Poems

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


Does Your Heart Share This Moon Tonight
“For in your light I dream, as evening takes my hand”

Silently I find my thoughts illumined by your beauty
In soft shimmers of dancing silhouettes
and patterns...

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Categories: illumined, longing, love,
Form: Free verse



3:15 Am
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3:15 am…blurred red numbers tell as
I stir, reaching for what I have seen,
grasping for the moments spent in the presence of beauty
as once again...

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Categories: illumined, dream, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Harmony
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Soft melodies of misted spray
adrift ‘pon glistened air
Cascading waters on display
their touch of moisture’d share

As fern leaf sonnets fill the trees
illumined emerald green
Symphonic spun tranquilities
embrace...

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Categories: illumined, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Met In a Dream
In a dream, I went to him  
Hidden inside a wispy night 
Stars shining their twinkle lights
I sneaked into his slumbered thoughts

  ...

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Categories: illumined, dream, heart, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Are the One
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Opening the closet of narra doors, I sweep through
organza skirts and  gemmed ringlets; my hair
ruffling aimlessly upon scalloped kerchiefs
smelling decade - old hyacinth, Mom’s...

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Categories: illumined, longing, mother daughter,
Form: Prose Poetry



A Crescent Moon Smiles This Day
.

There like the bloom of a mystical flower,
a crescent moon smiles this day
Before the sun comes to offer good morning,
bright its illumined display

While here I...

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Categories: illumined, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Real Cliffhanger
It was tranquil sultry August, and the birds were singing,
The insects were all buzzing, and toad frogs were springing.

And I was deep in the mountains,...

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Categories: illumined, adventure, bird, devotion, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Soliloquy To My Future Self
I often cower at the thought
of conflict, and what grief it's brought -
while you have courage to engage the fight
for what is right.

I frequently will...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illumined, courage, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Love You, My Divine Lover
Beholding my eyes, You can see my heart
exposing depth and breadth of love’s essence
I gained from Your compassionate presence
forever to stay; never will depart.

Looking into...

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Categories: illumined, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Beyond Night's Sky
Farther than mantles of a pewter night,
Comets reel in their own immeasurable world
Past earth's sky,  gloaming through lattices
Woven by celestial bands... a grandeur
From a...

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Categories: illumined, creation, world,
Form: Free verse
Ticket To Heaven
Ticket to Heaven


We drink from the fountain of earthly delights
Sweet to the taste, ever cool to the touch
Blushing of purity bred in our hearts
Glistened enchantment...

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Categories: illumined, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Never-Ending
Never-ending 

I was having a dream…

you were lying next to me
soundly asleep
 in our soft bed,
satin sheets 
and goose down pillows
as the sun began to...

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Categories: illumined, good morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pixie Dragons
I thought the landscape burst in sudden flame
with embers wild cavorting in the glare
of dawning sun, but boundless sparks became
a throng of monarchs flitting through...

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Categories: illumined, butterfly, fantasy, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Solitude of Love
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“Neath blushing heavens up above, within the solitude of love” 

As evening captures your eyes
in moon shadow driftings
when stars blush
and heavens find their
dreams fulfilled

I taste...

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Categories: illumined, good night, sensual,
Form: Free verse
As Silken Petals Dream - Cm
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Beneath the arbor violet
where slumber calls her blooms
In stardust moments silently
as silken petals dream

Through woven vine of midnight lace
a’ peer this whispered eve
To gaze upon...

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Categories: illumined, beauty,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs