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Divine MagnetismWho said it was blue? When I think of
A window, it is not the colour of grapes;
Nor is it a long stretch of morning field;
Also not a nighttime movie of galaxy film.
Who said red was...
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Categories:
light, how i feel, image,
Form: Free verse
Glossolalia
"Glossolalia"
I closed the external noise out,
and upon entry to that strange place
the colour of Love,
silence broke the heart open
like trumpets penetrate the heavens
revelations were opening in my mind,
and the invisible surrounding me...
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Categories:
light, spiritual, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Play on Words
English words that end in “let”
are called diminutives – did you forget?
All were once of larger size
but were easily diminutized
by the suffix “let” appended
where the word naturally ended.
(Think of it like a tail tacked
to...
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Categories:
light, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Categories:
light, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Deeper RootsYou can burn a book
but not its truth
Flames no match
for time’s reproof
Planted deep
below the lime
Its seeds will flower
— where light to shine
(West Campus: May 6, 2024)
...
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Categories:
books, light, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Are we there yetDirect immediacy..
Seems to be
A pretty good map
To find This..
Time is shattered
Space explodes to
A vast unknown..
Hold on..
Are we there yet..?...
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Categories:
light, humorous, i am, words,
Form: Light Verse
codependency
light …
and dark -
shadow and bright
are diametrically opposed
and intricately interdependent
we must learn to not fear the dark
for it holds the same delight, the same color
the same purpose and excitement
the same realizations … unseen
and it harbors...
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Categories:
analogy, dark, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Dancing While SingingDancing minds
free singing bodies
Dancing bodies
reserve singing minds.
Minds find faith in wealthy
blue-sky synergy
where bodies have experienced hope
for sacred EarthTribe's
healthiest green integrity.
Whether we feel we must invest
in cooperative minds
invoking compassionate
sacred bodies
Or think we might best...
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Categories:
health, integrity, light, muse,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
That Place
"That Place"
In that place where you were abandoned,
that place, they never thought, you’d come back from,
in that place where it is believed nothing grows
in the long night’s tortured darkness, deep down, well, ...
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Categories:
dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Listening to the birdsListening to the birds as the trees richly green..
Listening to the birds sweet promises of spring..
Listening to the birds, God's promise on a wing..
Listening to the birds and the hope they bring.....
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Categories:
light, abuse, appreciation, bird, environment,
Form: Light Verse
Critterature: Critiquing William Blake"Tyger, tyger burning bright
In the forests of the night…"
Archaic spelling set aside,
And not intending to be snide,
But really, Mr. Blake, I take exception.
While a tiger's luminosity
May pique your curiosity,
What the beastie's wattage is, you've no...
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Categories:
light, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
THE KANGAROOS HAVE LANDED!I FELL ONE NIGHT, WELL IT WAS DARK!
THEN WOUND MY WAY INTO A PARK
IT'S PEOPLED BUT WITH KANGAROOS
WHO HAVE LOST ONE OR MORE OF SHOES
BETTER THAN LOSING PANTS, I GUESS
WHO CARES! SIT DOWN! PUT...
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Categories:
light, age, fun, life,
Form: Light Verse
Baptism and reflection“An eternal man
Will bathe you in flames and light
To cleanse your own flesh of sin”
“Do not reflect flesh
Seek to mix water and flames
To reflect eternal light”
...
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Categories:
baptism, fire, light, mirror,
Form: Sedoka
My dim wit poetryGood morning, it's just me,
penning, "dim wit poetry",
foot in mouth and pen in hand,
who knows where they may land.
Some poems light and rather sweet,
others swallowed in defeat
by a wet and ever hungry quick sand.....
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Categories:
light, environment, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Every people from everywhereWhile I sit here thinking about the world and our people, every people, from everywhere, all the differences, and similarities, the cultures and colors. We are so beautiful, and peculiar, a virtual cornucopia of...
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Categories:
beautiful, culture, light, love,
Form: Free 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?
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