Best Lightbulbs Poems

I remember when
Q was part of a Tip
now Q is a one way trip
to crazy town
It’s a place where thoughts flip
and up is down
Where every imaginable 
conspiracy is found
Listen to that mind cracking sound
in a basement of a pizza shop
they think that trafficked 
children are...

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The clouds light up like lightbulbs, as the sun sets beyond the hill
Some are tinted gray, with bright shining edges of white
They are spread all over the place, above the pine trees so still
A moving transformation of the last beautiful moments of daylight

Animals speak as...

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2016

Less than 24 hours,
2016 will take over and 2015 will be broken towers
It will be remembrance in a photo shoot album
Reminders of ups and downs in the past, present and future...making us feel numb and a bread crumb on the floor, but God will beat...

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O Father Of Mercy
Wash out this grief you shower
Over me and the land,

Ring out the spirit
And Saturday our love's weeks
Like light through locked twigs,

Beyond the puddled boy
Crying in vain for solace
Sung all about him

With worried weather,
Arise in your emptiness
Head-high like the sun.

Stars are for darkness.
May...

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As the sun sets
A hot wind like this
Does not belong in downtown Lansing
But here it is
Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans

My wife and I
We hold down our pouncing bouncing patio table
At the Waterfront Bar and Grill
As if we were airborne soldiers just...

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i swear to to tell the truth, the whole enchilada, nothing but it
dont short change yourself cause youre living on a budget
turning green, hulking out, and slippin superheros cryptonite
narrowing insight cause youd rather fight than try to take flight
the right two cents is worth more...

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Now you can buy them in sizes
There's clear and colored ones to,
Short, skinny, long and spiral
Just to mention a few.

In lamps and yard lights
Used in every house to see,
Some only last a few months
While some come with a lifetime guarentee.

The world would become darken
Without a...

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Flight of fancy reading by candlelight                                       ...

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Eyes that can't see clearly,
Ears that can't hear keenly 
Shame embraced me, never leaving my presence 
I hated the moments you called me a boy that's dense...
It just doesn't make sense...
Hence, I think up on other notions...
Fenced in by my own ignorance 
Hoping to gulp...

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I am from the small white house
That has the small black pup as a defender
with picture on every wall
And the exploding smell of cinnamon
I am from the big family
Where education is everything
And Christmas morning are spent as a whole
I am from the tiny town
Where everyone...

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Written By:  D. Collins 8/7/18

Absolute power is what Trump thinks he has.
Congress bowed-down and gave him a pass.
But, it is far from over.  It's just about to get hot.
He'll find that absolute power isn't what he's got.


I see impeachment down the road, and...

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When bread goes stale and soda flat
And milk begins congealing
Or mold appears on hunks of cheese,
It’s really not appealing.

We know that chirping smoke detectors’
Batteries have died
And lightbulbs’ lives are over
When a rattle’s heard inside.

It’s obvious when objects
Are no longer at their best.
A glance, a sniff,...

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A moths flight path is erratic
It flits from place to place 
First it’s on your ceiling
Then it’s dive bombing your face

It hits its head on lightbulbs 
Even though they’re really hot
Killing off the the few brain cells 
I’m not even sure they’ve got

And when you...

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The King dreamed of a contraption, a device
   that would light up his night, so nice
No wax melting, no moths smelting
   Not all that long ago...

He dreamed of food and drink always cold
   in a box, a contraption, a...

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Brightness peeps into
yellowing net curtains;
brief wafts of a semaphore sky.

An elderly lady has planted her mind
in an apartment,
lightbulbs burn out, are never replaced;
sunshine squints through thin drapes.

Daily she shoos the world away,
discourages rumors
of unnecessary things.
Mail piles up
on her unwelcome mat....

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