Best Nightlight Poems

Every night I have the same crazy fight 
It's always me against this one nightlight
It goes out just quit
I get up bang it
It cuts back...

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I stood on the step by the unopened door
Far from the meadows that precede the shore
Grasped tight the railing I longed to explore 
Searching for...

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Image: Cloud Fantasy, by Susan Lawrence

On spring's green carpet I repose, revitalizing the soul
passing slow minutes pondering the sky

The lake whispers a morning meditation
as memories...

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The full moon was half risen above the Earth
shining her nightlight across cooling desert sands.
She smiled, deep in thought and a sense of mirth,
"This could...

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(After Langston Hughes)

I hadn’t known 
my infertility was their problem;
The adult table contracts
from a toddler’s wide wobble
while over a gavel — I mean, 
a rattle...

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Many moons ago 
your starlit beautiful 
the day of birth dreams began

Circling true warm dust 
was cast into the wake 
of wishes floating sparks hot

Burning...

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The child, now sleeping, loudly snores.
The nightlight shines there on the wall.
If you could peer under the door,
The sight awaiting would enthrall:
It seems the toys...

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Beauty Calls



Soaring on the melody of a meadow lark
Bathing in a whippoorwills love sonnet
Slumbering to the soothing coo of doves
Under my nightlight made from the...

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There is a stillness in nature, a silence before the storm
A hushnesses rush that stirs within the trees, listen
To the echoing whispers carried on the...

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Thousands of tiny moons have gathered
 one to each dewy blade of grass.
With the brightness of the full moon
 upon this great earth its beauty...

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Listen, Listen well, but be careful what you hear.
For ivory wind catches mischief in the voice.
It stirs a gale in the beast courthouse.
A valley of...

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Monsters Inc. 
Big BaBoo.

Big BaBoo is big
Though sightings very rare,
His diet is household dust
He lives below our stairs.

I liked my Big BaBoo
I hear him every...

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pathway to heaven’s
ultimate celestial journey
with dark beginning

slowly steps illumine 
making travel less fearful
heaven’s own nightlight

god’s empyrean
a secure welcoming sight
with new breath of life

Copyright © 2011...

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The moon won’t rise.
Unless lady gravity is holding her
Moonflower that’s still, shining bright.
Silver steps silver gown.
Spiraling up to the stars above the ground. 
A heart...

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Blue hues crest to white waves on the water

Frail sailor seeks out a lighthouse beacon

No nightlight to guide her through the storm now

Shares prayers for...

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