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Light Poems | Examples of Light Poetry

Light Poems - Examples of all types of light poetry to share and read. This list of light poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of light poetry. This list of works about light is an excellent resource for examples on how to write light poems.
Premium Member lighthouses
lighthouses light seen between the oceans seafarers guidance...Read the rest...
Categories: light,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Reverse Graffiti
The light dances to cosmic symphony. Command enchantress of photons. Universe bends....Read the rest...
Categories: light, universe,
Form: Other
Premium Member Supernature
"Supernature" The walls have eyes here they are all hungry they reach up to pluck words like apples to eat from sacred trees, it feeds and fuels them on their irregular journeys through their pleasing dappled gardens, gone all dark,...Read the rest...
Categories: i am, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Green eggs and ham
Green eggs and ham or was that snot? Little people get sick a lot!!...Read the rest...
Categories: light, 1st grade, children,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Singing I Love You
Neil Diamond said it is easier for me to sing I love you than to say it He said it with The Christmas Album 1992, and we all felt it...Read the rest...
Categories: light, music,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Resurrection
"Resurrection" When the best Mother cracks the yolk will always rise again brightly shining unpoached in Blue Sky The only way to the Daughter is through the Mother this is how it is and how it has always been In the...Read the rest...
Categories: i am, light, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reverse Graffiti
************************* The light ... ... illuminating secrets -- --- awaits your whispered decree ~~~ ~~~ yielding to your will! ************************* ...Read the rest...
Categories: light, appreciation, beauty, blessing, christian,
Form: Other
Hemisphere In Between
Winter's subtle brush and Spring's balmy stroke On ragged frost to glossy flowers Will on with the heaven's wheel go— A passing through your new older hours, The sun's condolences, for dark power. As you've preened birdsong into my fear,...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, innocence, light, love,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Another Better World
"Another Better World" These little sins you smoothly skip across the waters of fairweather lives like darkness hidden underneath deadly white lies, like throwing pebbles casually across The Lake of Tears that reflect rippling rings rapidly racing outwards...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SO SHE DOES LOVE ME-
She says she loves me yet how do I know; For she show because, she stands, she prays, she stays… She doesn’t walk away; O' so she does love me; 4/26/24 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024© ...Read the rest...
Categories: light, appreciation, blessing, celebration, for
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member For Arbor Day, April 26, 2024
Have you hugged a tree today? If you haven't, then you should. It doesn't take a lot of time, And might do you both some good. A hug's a way to show you care Without spending lots of dough. Just...Read the rest...
Categories: light, tree,
Form: Light Verse
A life of blessings and lightness
A life of blessings and lightness By Michelle Morris 25/04/2024 Light the match Watch it burn Your old life The twists and turns Let the wind blow Ashes far away Time for clear skies No more grey days Plant...Read the rest...
Categories: light, destiny, encouraging, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gasless Beans
Flackmoth wishes his love of legumes was not accompanied by foul fumes. Not having to release a whiff of flatulence would prevent incurring that other offense and social stigma, the “stinkma.” ...Read the rest...
Categories: light, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Shifts in Perception
"Shifts.." In perception Seem to happen Unpredictably Immediately as Nothing appears.. Astoundingly Without instruction Without fanfare......Read the rest...
Categories: light, i am, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Stillness as Story
Stillness Without an opposite Appears as opposite.. This story appearing as Not even stillness......Read the rest...
Categories: light, absence, i am, words,
Form: Light Verse

Specific Types of Light Poems

Read wonderful light poetry on the following sub-topics: bright, candle, christmas, dark, darkness, funeral, inspirational, love, red, science, and more.

Definition | What is Light in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs