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Best Yellow Light Poems

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Premium Member Vincent Van Gogh: Cafe Terrace At Night
from beyond his
vibrant palette
that bore all his 
lifelong scars

is what I see
beneath his sky
and myriad
of stars

a scene of shades
and silhouettes
formed by the
yellow light

that hints at
The...

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Categories: yellow light, appreciation, art, symbolism,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Breathless Southern Nights
Relaxing to a rain song serenade
Which breaks the stillness of hot southern nights
Fat bullfrogs harmonize while crickets play
A melting moon drips waxy yellow light

The motion...

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Categories: yellow light, appreciation, nature, night, simple,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas the kids were in bed,
and visions of bicycles rolled in their heads;
the bright shiny flyers of candy cane red,
and all...

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Categories: yellow light, christmas, funny, humorous, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ebony Sea
Swift nibbles, tentative licks 
     small diamonds of broken moonlight
          on ebony...

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Categories: yellow light, dark, death, emotions, self,
Form: Free verse
Slivers of Light
A thousand yellow and orange slivers of light vibrate.
Their heat permeates.
Slowly they glide into pairs and groups, singing as one. 
Alas, this solitary yellow light...

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Categories: yellow light, angst, horror, morning, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - a Perfect Rhythm -
The touch of spring

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Categories: yellow light, beauty, emotions, may, nature,
Form: Verse
My Friend Pine Tree
My Friend Pine Tree 

Away, quite away from my nearby Allen Forest
One day I was moving on a hill top 
On a Himalayan mountain hill
I...

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Categories: yellow light, naturefriend, tree, light, friend,
Form: Free verse
Evacuation and Loss
The night shone for the full moon,
Sky brewing a coarse monsoon,
Bolted were windows, locked were doors,
The frequency of death frighteningly soared.
But who was this infant...

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Categories: yellow light, bereavement, child, depression, family,
Form: Narrative
Delete Blockages
Delete blockages

See the red light a shining,
Red light shining, yes on you,
See it fill your mind an body 
For a minute, chakra grew,

See the orange...

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Categories: yellow light, adventure, heart, light, body,
Form: Ballad
The Wanderer Part 1
I remember a day I smiled at her
And she smiled back
That was miles away
down the road
We parted there
And I came back
to find her long gone
No...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yellow light, allegory, lost love, love,
Form: Ballad
Memories of Insomnia
Last night rolling over in my bed
with drooping eyes and racing mind
I boarded a train of random thoughts.
Only to find millions of flashes
that I couldn't...

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Categories: yellow light, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Mr. Lopez and Mr. Ayers
I flip the history of Bojangles
On a cool Sunday evening
Los Angeles coming down
A flow of oboes breathing
Through the lung of the street
The hobo not stopping...

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Categories: yellow light, friendshiplove,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beautiful Fall
Bountiful goodness of squash, pumpkins and gourds decorate hay bales
Elaborate labyrinth of vines dried by August suns lean against twilight fences
Autumn colors of browns reds...

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Categories: yellow light, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
Street Walker In Oslo
Street Walker in Oslo 

As the black-winged night occupies my balcony
and spread its wings in triumph and shop lights
try in vain to illuminate and gladden...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yellow light, anger, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
God Summarized
The scene distorted,
the image contorted,
light shaded,
time complicated,
haunting night,
strong enough
to distort light.
God Summarized,
as he thought about evacuating the planet,
it would be wrong,
it could take very long,
but...

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Categories: yellow light, fantasy
Form: Dramatic Verse

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