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Best Streetlight Poems

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


Premium Member Streetlight
The Christmas lights can’t shine bright enough
To overcome her pain and the screams inside
Loneliness merging with past replaying ongoing
And the images will not go away...

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Categories: streetlight, deep, loneliness, memory, pain,
Form: Free verse



8 Mile Style
8MILE8MILE    .     .     .     .     ....

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Categories: streetlight, career, humor, music, rap,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Christmas Snow
It is Christmas Eve, all preparations for the day are done,
My hand grabs the doorknob as I step out to take a stroll,
On this peaceful...

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Categories: streetlight, christmas, holiday, joy, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
Wither, Perish
The night is the blackest
and the coldest I've known.
The town, so small
it should not be called a town,
is still with its own malice.
I have grown...

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Categories: streetlight, death, depression, fear, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A New Day
Streetlight shadows, sentinals of the night
Give up their posts
Secrets safe

Crescent Moon, Venus in tow
Sighs its last breath
Waning on the horizon

Newspapers flop at doors, car exhaust
Once...

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Categories: streetlight, image,
Form: Prose Poetry



Giyani My Homeland
Giyani, my homeland, my forefathers land 
Located deep in South Africa in the Limpopo province 
Where all things are bright and beautiful 
Far from fraud...

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Categories: streetlight, africa,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Dark Night - City Streets - For Contest
Dark Night – City Streets


A dark night on city streets
soft yellow glare of streetlights
outlining slow creepy things.

Scents of cooling kitchens
and boiling excitement
tickled the deepening thrill.

A...

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Categories: streetlight, city, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Funeral of a Surrealist
Surrealist’s funeral is held in the air,
yet, his coffin is not carried by a supersonic speed plane 
flying through the open sky—altitude higher than the...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: streetlight, funeral, loneliness, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
I Feel So Settled In Your Presence
i feel so settled in your presence
it seems so definitively calm here
i want to go on excursions never experienced with you and just discover

once upon...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: streetlight, dedication, for her,
Form: Free verse
A Night In the City
City nights, Star-less skies
Sprinkles wet, raindrop mist
brushes my arms, my face
tickling my toes with dew.
I hear the drops hit earth,
and, lo, I think of you.

Streetlight-brightened...

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Categories: streetlight, life, nature,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Premium Member Warmth In Union
Arm in arm we walk ~*~
streetlight illuminations
shimmer in puddles ~*~
winters winds caress the night 
warmth in union radiates ~*~









http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/love-17.php...

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Categories: streetlight, love, people
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Green Light Reflection
approach a green light
           reflection greeting my car
       ...

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Categories: streetlight, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Canyons of Slumber
Oh how sweet warmth would gently fade
cast shadows on the games we played.

Dusk's chatter-patter playing hide and seek
under streetlight curfew lamps
unspoken call to home.

Wild laughter...

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Categories: streetlight, childhood, children, dream,
Form: Verse
Premium Member To Be Heard In The Snowfall
Hi  everyone. I am not back fully yet. I posted a blog post update. But tonight, I did write a poem after a month...

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Categories: streetlight, appreciation, faith, life,
Form: Rhyme
Things I Miss
Nostalgic Nights.
The smell of gas in the vintage moped I drove an hour to buy, 
Driving down that small-town street at night,
Lit by the dim...

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Categories: streetlight, adventure, beautiful, divorce, family,
Form: List

Book: Shattered Sighs