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Best Light Poetry

Below are the all-time best Light Poetry poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of light poetry poems written by PoetrySoup members


I REFUSE TO COUNT SILLYBULLS
There once was a poet who despaired
though blessed with a fair amount of flair
that he was way too thick
to master limericks
counting words an arduous affair...

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Categories: light poetry, light, poetry,
Form: Limerick



The Color of Poetry
       As the ink touches my writing pad every letter seems to glow.
I feel I'm going mad watching sentences...

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Categories: light poetry, fantasy, inspirational, on writing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poet's Philosophy
i write metric verse    therefore iamb....

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Categories: light poetry, humor, light, poetry,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Elusive Poet
No rhyme
	This time.

Re-thought
	Still naught.

Read books
	Got looks.

Brain nap
	A sap?

More rest
	Flunked test.

Online
	Not fine.

Didn’t learn
	Still yearn.

Free verse
	Got worse.

Poet?
	Forget.

Tried hard
	No bard!



10/29/17...

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Categories: light poetry, fun, humor, journey, light,
Form: Rhyme
The Power Is Out
The power is out
but rather than pout
I'll sit down and write a few rhymes

It makes me so happy
to write something snappy
when life throws me lemons...

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Categories: light poetry, humorous, light, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Sprinkle of Wit
    A sprinkle of wit
      a dash of gravitas
    Not too precise
  ...

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Categories: light poetry, light, poetry, truth,
Form: Rhyme
I Don't Want To Write A Poem
I don’t want to write a poem,
there’s nothing in the tank,
no great thought or inspiration
that will inspire thanks.

I don’t want to write a poem,
just let...

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Categories: light poetry, creation, emotions, humorous, inspiration,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Komorebi Land Where Poems Are Made
  
KOMOREBI 

The Land Where Poems Are Made
Chorus chords of
Sounds mutter, iambically
Especially forming tongues throughout the ages
To give birth to rhyme in metered rages
Ancient...

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Categories: light poetry, beauty, inspiration, inspirational, light,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Beacon of Light
be
a
beacon
of bright light; 
and let it shine on...
to illuminate the whole world!
when melancholy changes the white hue of the clouds,
erase every trace of it with...

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Categories: light poetry, encouraging, inspirational, light, poetry,
Form: Fibonacci
Premium Member When The Heart Meets The Moon
You are the season that opened my heart
the birthday present my eyes sought
the sun rises and you’re in my thoughts
as night falls our world’s seemingly...

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Categories: light poetry, crush, feelings, friendship love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Bothersome Bedbugs

     Basically,
     bashful
     brownish
     brazen
    ...

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Categories: light poetry, light, poetry,
Form: Alliteration
Limitless World
Cruise ship in the universe
Sailing across the cold space
Star ships floating into nowhere
And islands of galaxies glitters.
 
Colourful world of fantasy
Exposing lies and reality
Accepting truth...

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Categories: light poetry, imagery, life, light, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Personal Memories
Inquiring was my mind to gain was her wisdom
Awakening to find she never found it random
As I sat by her side precious yet seldom
Measuring her...

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Categories: light poetry, beautiful, bible, blessing, grandmother,
Form: Monorhyme
Relyrics to My Kind of Music -Bon Jovi's
Chakra - the Light
will make you stay...

You give Light
in a new way (new way)

Walk for awhile and time will tell,
you'll walk straight through Heaven,
and forget...

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Categories: light poetry, beautiful, faith, light, poetry,
Form: Lyric
Want and Need
Everybody wants what they can't have
Most times what they can't have is just a fad

A fad that goes from fab to drab quite fast 
And...

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Categories: light poetry, character, hope, light, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
ILLUSIONS TO DAZZLE
An observer would ask quietly,
Why do we write poetry?
We use illusion, in words to dazzle,
Our muse flows words, no hassles,
Each poem a fragment of society,
Writers...

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Categories: light poetry, allusion, light, poetry,
Form: Free verse
eye contact
eye contact.
who needs it?
like when i try holding my anger
and you tell me to look up
out from behind my knees.
i hesitate. i know i'll cave.
when...

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Categories: light poetry, beautiful, beauty, boyfriend, care,
Form: Free verse
A Sign from God
Send for me, should I be gone-
I am but a touch away
In hand with God and we are One
(In folds of light my Mind doth...

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Categories: light poetry, god, light, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Your Tray
Deep in the ocean
Two buds bloom in joyous dark
And then it is light

The sky in the boat 
Rides the sail and moonlit wind
Become shining stars

From the...

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Categories: light poetry, dark, light, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member MELANCHOLIA-a tanka verse
a confined abyss
dis ease,born of despair-
early morning mist
evanescing in
new light-giving care

You may hear me recite this tanka verse and much of my PS poetry on...

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Categories: light poetry, life, light, poetry,
Form: Tanka
An Epistle to Light
Dear Light
Fairest of ‘em all
Beam your blinding rays
Chase me
And spark another you in me
To end my reign
Dispel me into the shadows
Let the new you
Glow with...

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© Arum Dusu   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: light poetry, anxiety, art, dark, emotions,
Form: Free verse
LIGHT HOUSE
Evasive splashes rise and fall
Leaving but a trace of mist
To reflect
The taste of awe
For gaping jaws to admit

Could it have been?
Pointers light the way
While the...

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Categories: light poetry, house, inspirational love, light,
Form: Light Verse
Cloaking confusion
Was that a drop of rain glistening on the tree?               ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: light poetry, allusion, beauty, confidence, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Their poetry stays with us
A Poet comes, a Poet goes
Their poetry stays with us
   A candle's lit, its flame burns bright
   Pauses, flickers, vanishes in...

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Categories: light poetry, light, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Spark Light
Spark Light
Edward Clay
Created 1996

What mote of soul
clothed in words.
Comes forth from inside.
Born to be voiced for others to hear,
To answer need for it to exist,
To...

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Categories: light poetry, creation, light, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse