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Best Lightbulb Poems

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Premium Member A Lightbulb Turned Into An Elephants Behind
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Categories: lightbulb, animal,
Form: Shape



Lightbulb
Am at a point in my age
Where i ask myself
What am i doing?

I've spent majority of my life chasing dreams
Through thick and thin
Through nook and...

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Categories: lightbulb, growth, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Echo Your Empathy
You’re my star – I set fire to our firey rose 
Bouquet of stars – I hand to you – 
We’re opposites, like poetry and...

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Categories: lightbulb, angst, appreciation, change, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retrieving
Halfway through shampooing the dog, it came....
  
A new idea for a poem.
I tried to scribble it on to the floor with a soapy...

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Categories: lightbulb, animals, on writing and
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Obsession of Soaps
OBSESSION OF SOAPS

obsessed with the daylight hours
specifically the graven-image afternoon
like high place dungeon towers

calgon’s commercial didn’t “take me away”
but a clever string of soaps did...

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Categories: lightbulb,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member 'Tis Nineseventeenpm
'Tis nineseventeenPM!
On the balcony, in a rocking chair
In full twilight surrender
Savoring this wonderous time capsule
This moment of captivating tranquility 
So soothing I wish It would...

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Categories: lightbulb, night, time,
Form: Free verse
Wicked Witch of Time
Once upon a time
Present became past
Engaging in your rhyme
You forgot, it wouldn’t last

You abruptly awoke
From an afternoon slumber
Equivalent abode
Different postal number

You couldn’t hear the sizzle
Of...

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Categories: lightbulb, age, time,
Form: Rhyme
War
In an old, crumbling town,
Everyone's been feeling down,
Children crying in despair,
Planes bombing in the air.

The war is intense, sad and deep,
But it has promises it...

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© Moli Che  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lightbulb, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Become a Painting
Dear Artist,

I'm a character locked in your mind,
A figment of your imagination.
You sit staring out of the window
Watching, waiting for inspiration.

Aren't you aware Dear Artist,
There's...

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Categories: lightbulb, art, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Endless Days
I close the windows.
I shut the doors.
Away from the shadows,
surrounding these three floors.

Every room, it's own light.
On at the chosen hour.
Holding back the night,
with only...

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Categories: lightbulb, day, fear, light, night,
Form: Quatrain
Strike
"The Industrial Revolution!"
It is the workers' cry,
Who'd rather earn their bread each day
And plan their lives and save their pay,
Than lie and steal and die.

"The...

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Categories: lightbulb, business, dedication
Form: Rhyme
A Monkey Tale
My mom’d just had a baby
And so to give her space,
My nana and my grandpa
Took me to a special place.

We passed a toy store on...

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Categories: lightbulb, childhood, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Obituary of a Moth
Arriving in Spring,
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Categories: lightbulb, boxing day , death of
Form: Light Verse
Through the Eyes of Real
through the eyes of real 
selfish ideas wreaked havoc on many
whose hopes and dreams were 
snuffed out—
like the flame of a candle 
in a winter-wind...

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Categories: lightbulb, black african american, courage,
Form: Free verse
My Trip To Heaven
I'll never forget the dream I dreamt 
That reshaped my very being
   I have no doubt, need not attempt
Whole heartedly believing

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Categories: lightbulb, beautiful, destiny, dream, god,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things