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Fluorescents Poems - Poems about Fluorescents

The Radiologist Will See You Now
..."Where does it hurt?" She asks, clipboard like a shield, pen cocked like a firing pin. "Here," I say, pointing to the silence just beneath my ribcage. Not the lungs. Not the liver. The place wh......

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Categories: fluorescents, sad,
Form: Free verse
Give Them to Me
...If you have them for me If they are in you to give Then give them to me... If I've been good Or, at least you thought I was good Give them... I receive them humbly and wholeheartedly Don't hol......

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Categories: fluorescents, appreciation, feelings, flower, love,
Form: Free verse



Cadaver Elegy
...They handed me the scalpel like a crown- Queenship of the pail and prostrate. I ascended my throne of sterile steel, The body laid bare, my unwilling courtier. Death they said was merely a text......

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Categories: fluorescents, age, anxiety, death, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member my obsession with cartooning and painting
...cartooning relaxes me I love doing it a precursor to my paintings I adore acrylics fluorescents entice me fuchsia, orange, green, red, blue, anything that dazzles under a black light I never w......

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Categories: fluorescents, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unfounded Hatred Toward a Young Stranger
...The subway station heaves with muffled noise, The shuffle of countless feet against the grime, I am aware of unfounded disdain, Coursing between strangers in the city's bowels. The ancient fluo......

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Categories: fluorescents, discrimination, hate, prejudice, racism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Entranced by Beautiful Painting
...the painting popped like fiber optics like fluorescents, like neon acrylics in hot pinks, magentas, turquoise and tangerines with the precise amount of purples to make the hibiscus glow I was ent......

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Categories: fluorescents, art, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Running Toward Christmas
...Lee was running toward Christmas with her lights flowing. Some were twinkling on and off, and her hat was glowing. She is always dressed in fluorescents, a neighbor observed. Always ready to help ......

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Categories: fluorescents, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Inspired By Johnny Cash Gods Gonna Cut You Down
...You can try your might You can run all night What's done in the dark will come out in the light It can be messy Pathetic Distorted Corroded Be ready to flight But what's done in the dark ......

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Categories: fluorescents, anger,
Form: Rhyme
We Are One - Nigeria Remix
...We Are One (Nigeria Remix) Ever seen an eagle feeding like a vulture? Dignity trampled on, where corruption is a culture? Darkness threatens her future, cause of her shapeless structure it’s s......

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Categories: fluorescents, peace, political, visionary,
Form: Lyric
Death Becomes Art
...There, on a sill of contentious decisions Glass shards sit waiting a wavering hand Reflective the memories wrapped ‘round the curtains Lost in a pane that she can’t understand Chill......

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Categories: fluorescents, death, depression, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Last Call
...Last Call This is where I feel at ease. Senses heightened subtly by the mixture of light and darkness. The night time lights; bar lights, street lamps, flashing fluorescent advertisements, candl......

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Categories: fluorescents, abuse, appreciation, beauty, freedom,
Form: Haibun
Reading Gaol
...Well, we spent a couple of nights in an all-night laudramat somewhere east of Marble Arch. We had completely run out of money during that phase of our London experience. At least we had shelter, a......

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Categories: fluorescents, autumn, humorous,
Form: Haibun
Foggy Night
...foggy night a cobweb catches the glow of fluorescents haiku part of haibun Published: Contemporary Haibun Online......

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Categories: fluorescents, home, winter, youth,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Thrift Shop Foreshadowing
...Thrift Store Foreshadowing by Odin Roark Inventory of past life inventories Poised in dress-parade attention Obliging his obligatory inspection, Seeking the suit ......

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Categories: fluorescents, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
More Than a Handshake With Darkness
...darkness invites bringing out the self that matters (free of all the chicanery brought on by daylight) inside the lit candle light (painting only part of the face, allowing a subtle beauty illustrate......

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Categories: fluorescents, life, death, death,
Form: Free verse

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