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Electric Light Poems - Poems about Electric Light

ACROPHOBIA

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[Verse 1]
Girl, I’m caught between the thrill and the fall,
Your shadow’s tracing cracks across my wall.
Electric hum beneath my skin,
Addicted to the m...
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Categories: electric light, desire, fear, introspection, longing,
Form: Lyric

As an easy pushover and soft touch lamenting my demise

...As an easy pushover and soft touch lamenting my demise
Vultures swooped overhead
and preyed on my vulnerabilities
forcing me to carrion camping
as fine young cannibals
sharpened their knives
an...
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Categories: electric light, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberIn Reverence

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 "Ascending into electric light of energy and prisms of a spiritual flight"

For the will of God shall santify
From confession and truth to testify

Enlightenment from flesh to s...
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Categories: electric light, beauty, death, god, jesus,
Form: Free verse

Treehouse

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In the great Old Grove forests

Perry, Sayva, Diamond, and Jack

Went out and built this tree house

A fine little tree house

It had a ladder, it had a few windows

It had a little garde...
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Categories: electric light, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Once you've been there

...Looked out in the morning,
     saw the hurricane's approach;
Coming from the islands,
     travelling fast down the coast.
Time to hit the highway,
     got my seat upon the coach,
Going to th...
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Categories: electric light, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Unpacking the Silence

...at the burnt-out end of night
under a naked

flickering electric light
i worked upon leaving
all the junk
in my overstuffed mind
behind

i guess i must have been spaced-out

that overhead ...
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Categories: electric light, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membertribute to Thomas Edison

...Edison
most of us think electric light bulb
it took him 10, 000 recorded tries
that is 9, 999 failures
but he did it.

Edison
did you know he also invented the motion picture camera?
in 1892?...
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Categories: electric light, history,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI'm sorry!

...I’m sorry we can’t start the morning
- I’m still stretching and yawning.
Oh, give me a skibidi break,
why’d you wait to snake me awake?
Anyway, you know not to bother me
unless you’ve b...
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Categories: electric light, forgiveness, friendship, humor, morning,
Form: Rhyme

Joy after loss

...Well it's taken a wretched amount... out of time 
I'm pretty sure I lost myself and I lost my mind 
It's like time to nothings was given
Nothing was needed but my living room and my cell phone 
I...
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Categories: electric light, age, death, life, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

Over Light

...pass the dark
half time
the rest of me
into the spiral of spin
the schelpture of electric light
cascades over wretch
the grateful dead
kiss you into life


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Categories: electric light, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCelebrating White Supremacy

...("Winter Tree", 2023, original encaustic)

Celebrating White Supremacy

As the world turns….
ever faster and more wobblier
it’s hard to go a day 
without hearing some reference to ‘Whit...
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Categories: electric light, appreciation, humanity, humor, irony,
Form: Narrative

A Meadow For Autumn

...A meadow for Autumn

Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
 
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me 
lichen kenning myself 
as Rip Van Winkle 
except being repurposed
as  oldest li...
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Categories: electric light, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation,
Form: Free verse

Natural Soporific Narcotic

...Natural soporific narcotic

Recurrent suicidal thoughts 
vaingloriously wend along winding road
within windmills of my mind
(o'er a death cab for cutie weeknd)
yakking, yanking, and yawking zea...
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Categories: electric light, addiction, adventure, age, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Butterflies

...I knew a girl
once who had
a clothesline that ran
across her kitchen.
When she would water
her houseplants,
she could never remember
how much
water each one needed
to maintain a healthy
gre...
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Categories: electric light, love,
Form: Free verse

Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 Pm

...Spring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM

Despite what outside temperature registers
(even absolute zero), the official arrival
of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic
of coe phish hun...
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Categories: electric light, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

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