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Lamplighter Poems - Poems about Lamplighter


Premium MemberA Lamplighter

Written: October 30, 2023, For Brian Strand Contest
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as
gloominess
drops to the ground
the lamplighter performs his
rounds. Equipped with his
ladders, wick trimmer
matches, long pole
and backup fuel
positions the
ladders on
the post,
He opens the lock and trims the wick
and strikes a match to ignite the flame
locking
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Categories: lamplighter, analogy, history, light,
Form: Shape

Premium MemberA Lamplighter

A world without light
  devoid of sight
A world pitch dark
  teeming with fright

What resides in men’s minds
  unspeakably cruel, so unkind
A Lamplighter needed
  to remove all the blinds
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Categories: lamplighter, dark, light, world,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberFirefly

.   Firefly's golden light
Welcome beacon of the night
  Sparks fire here and there
 Like the lamplighter of old
Tiny light that shines so bold.

March 13, 2022
for Firefly Tanka contest
by JCB Brul
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Categories: lamplighter, appreciation, courage, earth, fire,
Form: Tanka

My Lamplighter

She was in her early teens
She looked like a bouquet of morning
But twinkles were crumbling in her sheen
The flowers in her eyes looked deserted by the sun

From some source she had heard
I could reorient the windows of her thought
Could guide her to turn her shadows into sunshine
Making her eyebrows and smile free from many a
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Categories: lamplighter, conflict, inspiration, stars, sun,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Lamplighter

Floor,
table
to ceiling,from chandelier
to
a 
trellis
filigree-
nouveau image
glow

Louis Tiffany's Grape table lamp designed by Mrs Curtis Freschel-was an International award 
winer for Tiffany

http://www.tiffany-lamp-uk.co.uk/shop/
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Categories: lamplighter, art, people
Form: Ekphrasis



The Eternal Lamplighter

My dear passer-by,

Do not hurry, please!

It will be, as in old times:

all will fall asleep, even the wind,

the merry fellow and deceiver,

and the eternal lamplighter

will silently turn on his magical lantern.

Transparent, lilac light will spread around,

You will hear footfall of invisible horses,

Say «Excuse me!»

if someone awakens to

sighs, whispers.

You will whirl in your happy, colored dreams,

and
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Categories: lamplighter, imagination, inspirational, song-
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things