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Best Lightspeed Poems

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


She Skips Stones Upon the Sea
Your eye's light shines like our moon, her moon...
she skips stones upon the sea--

...although we're just dancing 
between the idea of shadows.

How can I hold...

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Categories: lightspeed, age, analogy, poets, stars,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member 32 Years of Nothing Love Aplenty Abyss Annoyance Answered Abeyance
can u tell me whomwhatwhere I am
or is everyone to blame
must i lose all Butt one limbs
and never hope to be the sames
I hide the...

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Categories: lightspeed, analogy, emotions, humor, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Legendary Adventure Moments of Doctor Hermione Baggin
“The Legendary Adventure Moments of Doctor Hermione Baggins the Reddish of Winterhold, The Master Sith Rainbow Lord Lulu Pucca, Cloud Kitty Carla Chandra the Ruby...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lightspeed, fantasy, friendship, funny, games,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Where Sacred Meaning Fades
Where juicy historic purpose fades
and pre-historic
nonverbal
nonviolent sacred meaning
polyculturally creolizes
WholeOpen systemic shade
preserving future health intention

Is where we also find emergence,
consciousness of LeftHemisphere dominance
over RightHemisphere shrouded prominence
of...

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Categories: lightspeed, health, integrity, light, math,
Form: Political Verse
Two Soul's Interconnected Quantum
Intertwined two energies in love two souls exchanging acceptance of energies simultaneously in harmony~ foreverº changing the electromagneticº size of the heart receptive? to the...

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Categories: lightspeed, i love you, journey,
Form: Epic



Mr Epic Generic and Dj Cliche
Derek and Eric said I'm Generic, 
a weird name but I'll wear it,
I'm cool, it's epic, Generic's so original 
like the South Park ginger kid,
"gingers...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lightspeed, metaphor, smart, word play,
Form: Free verse
Fragile and Delicate
on my knees
i pushed deep into the earth
as if reaching for something dear
i have lost

an act of desperation 
experienced and guided
finding my way back
hardened by...

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Categories: lightspeed, death, future, humanity, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Acid Reflux Early Morning August 9th 2022
Acid reflux ~ early morning August 9th, 2022

Ah... nothing more enjoyable
than acidic gastric fluid (bile)
flowing backward into esophagus,
resulting in heartburn, meanwhile
disrupting pleasant dreams,
which phenomena also...

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Categories: lightspeed, anxiety, confusion, dream, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Equitably Delivered Comeuppance Betokens Agony
Awareness about behavior,
present since mine days of yore
an unswerving allie analogous
to peacekeeper ending civil war
belated insight suddenly realized

(better late than never) doth underscore
incumbent proactive communication...

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Categories: lightspeed, angst, confusion, fear, friendship
Form: Bio
Swing Sets and Jungle Gym
When, while a father with two young girls,
ah charming children indeed
both wrapped around mine middle finger,
whose playful rebukes
this papa did heed
(who wished for a son),
he...

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Categories: lightspeed, absence, adventure, age, daughter,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Jetblack God of Earth's History
I might best not say why,
yet I finally admit,
Taoist me imagines Yang as a JetBlack God,
Creator of this Universe
and, therefore, also ProGenerator of Anthros
with YinGoddess...

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Categories: lightspeed, beauty, health, muse, music,
Form: Prose Poetry
Deciphering Crossword Puzzles, Cryptograms and Scrabblegrams Once Favorite Pastimes
Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes

Livingsocial at 324 Level Road
circa post high school graduation
found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of...

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Categories: lightspeed, 12th grade, angel, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Untitled #298 / the Cosmic Ray-Detector
The cosmic ray detector lies
dormant in the corner, as it has remained for half a year
but, ah, cosmic rays still penetrate the walls of our...

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Categories: lightspeed, education, introspection, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Spindleshanks Ain'T No Legend
Spindleshanks Ain't No Legend...

But sits here donned in his foreign
aged (not so lovely) bag of bones
barely functioning surviving, but by
skin off his teeth, (which explains
dentures)...

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Categories: lightspeed, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Manic By Design
Too fast! It hurts!
It travels at lightspeed!
Ruins calm. More than I need!
Help me please!
This monster brings me to my knees!
Wild eyed. Animal's panic.
No reason. Life...

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© Ryan Tyler  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lightspeed, absence, art, betrayal, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs