Best Lightly Poems

Peace slips lightly
Over my shoulders
Downy in its softness
Its netting of gossamer
Floats downward
As a willow's branches
Might brush fate
And touch the unknown
I stand with beauty
I hug airiness

Fire in distant trees
Burnished red and gold
Drop their leaves
One by one by one
Spaces fill knowingly
Like a precise jigsaw
Designed by eternity
Its pieces...

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I move lightly at sixty,
a little less than the max.
Any faster, and the sunflower shells I spit
blow back in my face,
and any slower and the driver behind
becomes too distressed.

I move lightly at sixty,
homeward through the rural landscape,
past barns and combines,
engine humming, without straining,
secure that I...

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Walk Slowly, Tread Lightly, Voice Kindly, Hold Tightly


Walk slowly, Life with its deep mysteries awaits;
 For within the moment Time breathes and dies
Spur gently, racing horses begging passion's gate
 To bring Love from those towering blue skies-
        ...

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Choose not the path down trodden trail, 
for broad the road that leads to hell. 
Nor dance the night in Devil's arms, 
fire that burns is also warm.

Trust not words that are spoken sweet, 
gift of lies wrapped in truth so neat. 
Don't wander far...

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Beneath the passage of the sun
I surrender thoughts to a mindless haze
and turn my eyes around to gaze
upon the wave of rolling hills,
where tender grass is ever growing-- 

Where cattle graze, with sounds of lowing 
among the fragrant flowers, wild
I will smile and play, just...

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~  Night's snowflakes fall lightly  ~


   Night's snowflakes fall lightly
      without a sound
   Melt on my walkway
      No one's around

   No one awed by their beauty
 ...

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I whispered lightly as a rose
To grease my oily bagpipe,
And sniffing with her hairy nose
A dwarf flew into sight.

‘Pull down your flabby chopsticks, man.’
She ordered like a waiter,
And lowering my name to Stan
Got on all fours to cater.

‘I am Dame Doris Chucklebum.’
She laughed but half...

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My green garden grows
Beautiful and bountiful;
Tread lightly friend slug....

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You walked lightly into my life
Captivating and lovely to my mind,
At first, I never cared who you were
Now I don’t know who I am without you,
You kissed me
I felt my world change,
You held me
I heard my heart awaken,
You loved me
And my soul was born anew
You...

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Darken Lightly, The Bitter Harvest

Time shadows slip right on by
thunder in this cloudless sky
Once dreams did vividly abound
now this horror, no happy sound

Yester years, life gave it all
regret was never the only call
Days flew by with a certain feel
the good life on a time wheel

Such...

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I'm not as beautiful as a rainbow
I am the morning dew
Dancing on the tip of a leaf
Transient in the light of day.
Life is inviting me to dance
On the edge of time
To the music of love.
So come along for the dance
On the edges of time
I invite...

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Misty little droplets
tinted an amber hue,
dribble down a tulip
as trickling drops of dew.

Traces of scarlet blush
are not easily missed,
as if these bashful blooms
had just been lightly kissed.

Yellow drips from the sun
pooling like liquid gold,
gilding satin petals
as they slowly unfold.

Golden beams of sunlight
ink clear translucent cells,
and...

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To tread lightly on Planet Earth
To dive in with a tiny weeny splash
To cover your cough and not foul the air with smoke
To ardently proclaim earth's preservation
   is an altruistic axiomatic asseveration to Gaia....

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Ok, I'll write a little ditty
sounding nice and pretty
and make the reader think
its all about a mink
when its really about a kitty!

Yes, I'll pen a little song
to hum all day long
making you crazy
whistling dedumdaisy.
Well, thats just totally wrong!

Anyway ... I'm feeling bored
so a little limerick...

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Look down at her feet,
The size ?
Incorrect.
The shape ?
Too wide.
Her toes ?
Too long .
Stair at the top of her head,
Her hair ?
Wrong  texture,
Wrong length.
Her forehead ?
Too large.
Her eyebrows ?
Too bushy .
But follow it with a 
Chuckle,giggle,outburst of laughter 
Take it lightly .
As if the...

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