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Best Lighted Poems

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


Premium Member Without Lament
I have no sorrow, for sorrow is small,
And can't be held guilty for choices made.
Reflections are scrawled on my mind's dark wall,
And will leave stains...

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Categories: lighted, introspection,
Form: Sonnet



A Mother's Envy and Pride
Lapis lazuli mines with wide blue eyes
bringing to mind precious stones and
caramel scones; innocent and wise -
Wondering, yet without surprise.

Staring down the universe, a challenge
in...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lighted, art, child, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My Anonymous Lover
 Somewhere in a strange land
An unknown heart throbs for me
Etching an amorous graffiti
On the blank walls of my mind
Where ever I am, I feel...

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Categories: lighted, devotion, friend, romance, valentines
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Betrayed Expectations
I flew to Olympus, to find its heart,	
armour intact against Hades’ dark wrath.	
At birth the power of light made its start	  
as Homer's ghost...

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Categories: lighted, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member home again -
I am home ...

oh, my heart
      pray, hush its cadence
         for the...

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Categories: lighted, heart, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Curtain Torn
Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from...

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Categories: lighted, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She a Dream Raven, Ghost of Ill Repute
(1.)
Beware, Nightmarish Dreams Are Oft By Raven Sent,
(In Tribute To Edgar Allen Poe)

When incantations stoke fiery embers,
eerie nights, their sounds roust to remember
ghosts of yesteryears,...

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Categories: lighted, appreciation, art, creation, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Thoughts In Noir
On misted streets of fog and pain
           With lamp post lighted thoughts of rain
The city,...

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Categories: lighted, anxiety, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Night and Day
Night was covered in pitch darkness.
Looked fearful without a ray of brightness.
Through wilderness, moved beasts monstrous.
Nature looked so terrifying and cheerless.

After a night’s sleep the...

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Categories: lighted, birth, day, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Humming Bird in My Garden
Sudden, as a bolt from the blue,
Came down a humming bird, tantalizing
Skimming down and darting up
As an ever revolving top

It reeled round and round
Before it...

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Categories: lighted, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Echo, Silent Still
"I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways" - Rumi


You were there      and I was...

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Categories: lighted, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Weakness
GOD

Wondrous of many blessings.
Smiling never a frown.
My prayers, Lord, are  suddenly being ignored.
I've taken a tumble of  fallen down
Lord, my life was plain...

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Categories: lighted, absence, abuse, confusion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Magic
The magic came to Christmas Day when shepherds first were told, 
When wise men brought their frankincense, their myrrh and gifts of gold, 
When heaven...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lighted, family, happiness, holiday, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Half-Lit Moon
Haze up in the heavens encircles this orb.
Half-dark, half-light, shines from above.
Twinkles of light appear to absorb.
Fractions of darkness within lighted glove,

Speaking to lovers held...

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Categories: lighted, history, life, love, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 13
In his seething silence, I spoke, softly to him,
“Did I desire once to be higher than you, oh seething heart?
Could I, in my human flesh,...

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Categories: lighted, adventure, confusion, courage, heart,
Form: Epic

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