Best Lights Out Poems

Lights Out

One hundred years on and still the shout
“Everyone put your lights out”
Just for an hour from 10 to 11
And remember all those souls in heaven

One hundred years and still the cry
The perennial unanswered question “why?”
Is there a need in this hour of deed
For any...

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LIGHTS OUT

electromagnetic grid,
worse than sids, baby,
blowing our crib,
scary!

4/20/2018...

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From my perch in front of the TV
I give the night’s first shout
“Are you kids listening to me?
 Please, turn your lights out!”

“I want some water.”  “I have to pee.”
“I didn’t brush my teeth.”
I try so very disparately 
To not let my anger seethe.

“You...

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starving rising costs

cities are dimming the lights

smorgasboard for crime



nationwide nightime...

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I look everywhere around me,
See spark of fireflies in front of me.

The world is filled with darkness,
Hear no sorrow but happiness.

A time to reflect to my sins,
Count the blessings and my wins.

Screams of mangrove are like music,
Stars are staring like a frolic.

The world is in...

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Lights Out 

Rudolph the Red
had but one dread
that the light in his snout
would someday go out.

John G. Lawless
12/5/2014

submitted to – A Christmas Character Clerihew – Poetry Contest
Sponsor – Andrea Dietrich...

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Night
Spreads out
Her darkness
Over the earth
As she beckons the weary mind to sleep.

Cricket songs and the soft light of moonbeams
Stage a slumber
Set to play
Until
Dawn.




Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~~03.31.16


Tetractys, a poetic form consisting of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 
syllables (total of 20). Tetractys can...

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A hungry ghoul came to my door
Demanding sweet treats, nothing more
When I offered broc'li
The ghoul flashed his “cockney”
(I don’t open doors anymore!)



* October 10, 2020
For Tania’s Halloween-Inspired Limerick Contest
Soup Syllable Counter:  88668...

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At first the time seem perfect.  Everything seem alright when u think it comes to 
the best some one has to turn out the lights.  Now the tables have turned and 
this is what I have learned.

"Something's in life are going to be...

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There once was an Internet site
That kept going out like a light
          One minute it was there
          All the Soupers did stare
C'mon admin, this just ain't right





http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/humour-2.php...

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Darkness fills this place 
The hate covers my heart 
When will love return to this place I loved
When will hate leave this place that was adored
Why must we turn them off?
And leave the anger to linger
Why must we turn off the items that shine in...

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LET ME BRING YOU 
UP TO DATE.
GRIDS ARE DOWN 
THROUGHOUT THE STATES.
A HUNDRED AND TEN 
WITH SWELTERING HEAT.
WITH SHORTS ON MY BODY 
FLIP FLOPS ON MY FEET.
THIS HAS GONE ON 
FOR THE LAST 48 HOURS.
ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT 
AND STILL HAVE NO POWER.
YET GAMBLERS...

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Lights Out

By Nathan Hannen

Shadows creep and time ticks
Babies weep and clockwork clicks
Night turns to day, Onward marching

The End....

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Blessings--
Lit your candles upon us!

Take away the dreams that has driven the dawn away
Pour forth your light and gather up our muffled meditations
We muse morning to night whilst curses haunt the atmosphere
Thunderous greed strikes my weary soul again
Flee from us, you loathsome creatures...now we are...

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Death feels good when you're choking on your last breath
With tons of worry and fret
No consciousness is left
Constantly in a daze
Just counting down the days
But it never ends
I awaken another day and you're not here
How will my time be spent
Broken down in a hell bent...

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