Glare Poems | Examples

annoyed by a glare

You should have seen the glare my neighbor gave me
I have heard this story many times
All of my being wants to know why she puts so much energy into this
It might not have been directed at her, but she wants to take it personally
I used to try to redirect her; I know now that would be futile.

Can you believe she looked at me like that? She demands.
I make an excuse, and get off the phone.
Wondering why she has so little in her life to talk about.
Glad that I have my hobbies, my husband and my dogs.
Is my dog glaring at me?

The Glare of the Stars

Under a frozen cascade of stars
a vixen trots to her den -
mice today
they were her only prey.

Hunger gnaws
at a phantom bone
heavy with fresh meat.

Tomorrow she will rise early
and return late,
only two of her three cubs
will live to share a field rat.

The rat litter will perish.

Survival now depends
upon the lightness
of one chilled whisker.

the home of glare

(a story in senryu stanzas)

I get migraines.
- lucky me - glare can set me
off within seconds.

I always have a
pair of dark, polarized shades
with me - it’s a quirk.

When I was fourteen,
we lived in Shenzhen, China
very near Macau.

Macau, China, the
“Las Vegas” of Asia, is
the home of glare.

The Ritz-Carlton, has
a glittering galaxy
of bright chandeliers.

Those chandeliers move,
their silhouettes change shape - just
stab me with a spork.

Did I mention the
Mirrors? Every wall served to
magnify the light.

“You look awful,” my
mom said - our two week booking
became ten minutes.

“I just need sunnies,
those would work,” *then I gasped*
“I’ll look glamorous!”

We changed hotels, but
what a small world - my roommate
Leong grew up there.

We could have passed in
the yè shì as teenagers
and now we're roommates.
.
.
sunnies = sunglasses (UK slang)
yè shì = night market (simplified Chinese)

Night and War

Ominous echoes 
hush the song of eternity.

Sky is an ember:
Black and red and untouchable.

Night extends 
Till day seems impossible.

Echoes stab the night
Till it crumbles over our heads.

The air bleeds.
The eyes fall shut

Seeking an escape,
Yet the violent glares blind.

Merciless glares replicate;
The night is darker than ever.

Chased By a Glare of Day

It seems
no matter the topic
Love's always 
periscopic

pushing its little pink
nose
into a heart

purring its way
onto the surface

like sunlight nudging
a tropical sea
on the morning rise

Be them truth
or be them
momentary lies

love is a garden 
of starry sighs

how we navigate 
our dark

feeling chased 
by a glare of day

Heartless Glare

Heed the sweet whispers of the evergreen,
Its song like string weaves through the canopy's hair,
But I promise, no good it brings to you, my dear
To offer to her, your love’s binding ring, 
For such beauty does hath; 
A heartless glare…
For even a demon’s eyes does in sunlight gleam,
But from behind masked guise, the truth will stare, 
Leaving only before you a faceless being,
With darkened eyes; and string for hair.

Under the Glare of the Sun

Does it matter, whatever I've done
  the mightiest accomplishments
under the glare  of the sun
  too soon gather dust, too often shunned

What have I built
  that won't someday fall down
What songs have I written
  will long be around
When it's over and done ...

What's the point of this poem --
  to surrender to darkness and death?
Not as long as this heart beats
  and these lungs can draw breath

Glare

Lots of rocks in the black
      pock-marked yonder-
            in the star quarry,
lots.
Dead moonlight in my hand
                cools and shrinks.
Unseen,
                mind-dust kindles
in the charred sky fields.

A pebble needs throwing.

The Moons Glare

And at night,

When your light isn't here
I will look to the moons glare
Knowing you are somewhere 
Even if it is dark with out you
I know you will shine back through 
I know you will shine on me like you do

And there will be light again.

The Springs of Ceres Jewels of the Belt

Berenices and Arcturus
We're inspired.Hydra spoke
new words that tickled there
fancy. 
Creation recreates , creation
The sources of which is
Sourced.
We are the materials with origins
Sourced by our own meeting, 
gathered truths seeding like
sourced stones.
The things we know and those
things we don't know, hyperthermolly
speaking. They asked does Booted
stand in the Hydras of Ursa's pouring
To have us to believe the big dipper
and the little dipper faced one
another to create the precious stones
of envy. Jewels fashioned from the
Minds of artisans?

Twilight's Morning Solar Glare-

yandere skies yellow 
star shines and brightly yellow
solar lisp resonating
~
heated glare prevails
yellow bronze star spiking high
beacons Twilight  shines

10/20/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021

Hello, We Have Been Here

“Hello! we’ve been here – near – spying on you,
Spying on what you do, stew, chew, and spew”.

On a moon quarter bloomed, Halloween night,
Two ghostly bumble bees swarmed in for a bite.

One buzzed my ears and whizzed around my beard,
Growling to drill my lips …. if my wife cheered.

One hissed her ears, kissed her cheeks, and shrieked
To lay the table with all we baked, and then sneaked

Behind my wife – sniffing – if she’d hide any bites,
And had a good bite, and switched off all our lights,

Glaring not to disrupt their peaceful night,
Yet to prepare the bed and leave the site.


*A 1st Place* in the following contest (Judged on Oct. 15, 2020)

Oct. 12, 2020
Halloween Fright Poetry Contest
Contest Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire

Digging For Money

For what is hard, to find in the ground
and something so rare, for people to hound
why is this shard, worth a pound
it just has a glare, for the rich to be sound

Void Glare Love

poor light of twilight
 sad and faded is the glow
  of your  void  glare love

Time's Unseen Glare - Ty

Umpteen
Demean
Sunscreen
Unseen
Umpteen jilts demean life, mind can’t share
Soul’s sunscreen shields from time’s unseen glare

August 8, 2019
Rhyme checked on RhymeZone.com
Syllable count : 2/2/2/2/9/9
Checked on howmanysyllables.com

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