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Best Lightnings Poems

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


The Classical Whisper
The tree is breezy you will come I know
The jasmine wind is waiting to greet you
The hands of the clock moving very slow
On the rose...

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Categories: lightnings, imagery, life, love,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Spring Storm
Protractive silence, air that's still
Not a sound from morn's whip-poor-will
There's a growing anxiety
The scene requires sobriety
Zigzag lightnings flash, thunder rolls 
Hairy disturbed as the storm...

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Categories: lightnings, earth, nature,
Form: Lay
Nasturtiums
Asking neither names, nor historical periods, Clio draws wide circles of popular masses around square lonelinesses. What's all this noise about? A rich man’s circumference...

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Categories: lightnings, art, freedom, literature, social,
Form: Haibun
Green Is My Love
Green is my Love, and all she touches, blossoms!
And from her fingers, golden flecks appear!
Green is my Love, her lips always Truthsaying,
She does not even...

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Categories: lightnings, absence, death, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Storm
Silence shattered as thunder cracks ripping into the once peaceful night

Crackling flash of electric shock invades the sky in brilliant light

Rain spills from grey looming...

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Categories: lightnings, imagination, seasons, rain, earth,
Form: I do not know?



Ethereal lanterns
The spring of healing has its own anthem, 
It takes the sand and the sun to mold an ornament of time, 
Glaring upon the moving...

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Categories: lightnings, angst, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
De Heraldi
God does time fly!

Psalms allm ssllaay yyai!

Doesn't it seem as if we have never been?

There was now another thing accepting us?

Like we were fluids?

Drunken fluids...

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Categories: lightnings, boat, boyfriend, care, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Nature Speaks
Have you seen a bamboo? 
the tallest grass ever exist, 
dancing and bending and swaying...
whistling upon nature's grace? 

Have you seen a woman, 
standing beneath...

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Categories: lightnings, cry, earth day, environment,
Form: Free verse
Epitaph For a Palestinian Child
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

This...

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Categories: lightnings, absence, bereavement, conflict, death,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Achab, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Achab By T Wignesan
Achab*, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Achab by T. Wignesan

One man alone stands erect before the king, and speaks
A man
Alone

The king is not accustomed to being...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lightnings, loneliness, words,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Jigsaw Puzzle
(Manifesto) 

VIII … stop! - Skid! - Shift knobs, slide gears, vomit numbness, fondle!… the music of 
guillotines!… 

VII … unmannered retching! since everything is...

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Categories: lightnings, socialdark, dark, love, giggle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Describe Heaven For the Beauty
DESCRIBE HEAVEN FOR THE BEAUTY

For the beauty of heaven Golden gates, made of gold;
Environment perfect temperature not hot nor cold;
Holy dwelling of the Most High...

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Categories: lightnings, celebration, dedication, encouraging, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
That Moment
It's one of those moments,
the guy in you grabs the micro
starts talking on and on;
mine is often sarcastic,
from high school to career,
spinning around the questions...

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Categories: lightnings, happiness, introspection, music, life,
Form: Free verse
First They Came For the Muslims
First they came for the Muslims

after Martin Niemoller

First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.

Then they came...

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Categories: lightnings, culture, discrimination, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Olympians
Amongst the heaven's vast divides in the kingdom,
Of the God's the hills have eyes.
Here mighty Zeus commands with an iron fist,
And lightnings deadly thunder bolts.
Beware...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lightnings, devotion, fantasy, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things