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Lightbulbs Poems - Poems about Lightbulbs

Lightbulb
...Akin we are to Lightbulbs, but not as may be told; for creativity and Eureka! — are dreams that can be sold. We invite them their Control, and hand over our souls; prov'd that subtly they may......

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Categories: lightbulbs, angst, heartbreak, light, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
In my Room
...In my room with its broken latch There's postcards of hens and foxes and a disused TV set There's a collection of analogue cameras Some I use Some of my lightbulbs are out There's a book of Tra......

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Categories: lightbulbs, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member crack crack crack
...The ground was full of brittle crackly things They broke as I walked. Crack. Crack. Crack. I thought I was walking on lightbulbs. I stopped walking to look and see These things were curvy and ......

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Categories: lightbulbs, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member More is Less
...How you feel is not enough, You as this is less than function, Avert the feel, replace with stuff, Or suffer states, disjunction. Comparing scrambled eggs to buzzing locust, To the mumbled min......

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Categories: lightbulbs, abuse, anxiety, depression, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh Christ! The Train's a Comin'
... The rash upon my wrist awaits the railroad track Nail to penetrate my flesh ......

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Categories: lightbulbs, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rave
...A rusty old retro vintage bubblegum drop machine Positioned next to me as I am seeing above me Spherical lightbulbs and strobelights of flashing rainbow colours.......

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Categories: lightbulbs, color, dance, imagery, perspective,
Form: Sijo
Lace
...Brightness peeps into yellowing net curtains; brief wafts of a semaphore sky. An elderly lady has planted her mind in an apartment, lightbulbs burn out, are never replaced; sunshine squints t......

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Categories: lightbulbs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ocean
...I miss the ocean! As everyday it was my friend. But now I'm hot and sticky, Being stuck inland! I used to admire her crashing waves, As they approached the beach. Now all I have is my garden ......

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Categories: lightbulbs, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Dandelion Vampire Redux
...I met dandelion child when I needed a friend we met and we were friends to the end. of course not, that would be no fun but I did not intend to untie a pun To gaslight again, to preach upon a cha......

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Categories: lightbulbs, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Q Tipping
...I remember when Q was part of a Tip now Q is a one way trip to crazy town It’s a place where thoughts flip and up is down Where every imaginable conspiracy is found Listen to that mind crack......

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Categories: lightbulbs, abuse, america, angst, discrimination,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Worth the Wait
...The clouds light up like lightbulbs, as the sun sets beyond the hill Some are tinted gray, with bright shining edges of white They are spread all over the place, above the pine trees so still A mo......

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Categories: lightbulbs, beauty, change, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Moth
...A moths flight path is erratic It flits from place to place First it’s on your ceiling Then it’s dive bombing your face It hits its head on lightbulbs Even though they’re really hot Killing......

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Categories: lightbulbs, insect,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Not All That Long Ago
...The King dreamed of a contraption, a device that would light up his night, so nice No wax melting, no moths smelting Not all that long ago... He dreamed of food and drink always cold ......

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Categories: lightbulbs, appreciation, history, technology, time,
Form: Rhyme
Jimmy Page Was Here On July 4th
...As the sun sets A hot wind like this Does not belong in downtown Lansing But here it is Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans My wife and I We hold down our pouncin......

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Categories: lightbulbs, happiness, music, nostalgia, peace,
Form: Free verse
Big Ideas
...big ideas unfilled four months of thoughts ive kept in my vacuum twirling swirling spinning ideas bouncing off each other cracking spines in empty space shattering lightbul......

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Categories: lightbulbs, angst,
Form: Free verse

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