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Lights Are On Poems - Poems about Lights Are On

Premium Member Antiquated Embryo
...See me in the distant corner. Imagine a dark room. I’m in the fetal position. I’m curled up in a ball. Though, the lights are on… You see…my legs a drag, I boiled my hand, I strained my hip. I......

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Categories: lights are on, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don't tell mamma
... don't tell his mamma how the sun did not rise today although it was a cloudless dawn he could only feel the coldness of rain don't tell his mamma how he is hiding his grief although he may ......

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Categories: lights are on, emotions, perspective, voice,
Form: Free verse



Before Bed
...I put on pajamas. Before bed. The curse and everything that goes with it. Something happened. I think I dropped my meds on the floor. It was dark, and the lights were spinning, but there we......

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Categories: lights are on, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A lost heart
...A lost heart Live without a heart is impossible, but witness is a life This life lives without any human feeling and love encounter Is this a life? Only an old abandoned crumbling dusty theatre ......

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Categories: lights are on, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Thankful
...On Halloween. There are ghosts to be seen. And a skeleton. Candy disappearing by the ton. Porch lights are on. Costumes we don. During this holiday. I don’t mind having to pay. For candy that......

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Categories: lights are on, halloween, thank you,
Form: Rhyme



The Battered Wife
...I cannot go backwards. I can’t believe in the deception You impersonate so well Smell of flowers Plucked in hell Hugs and kisses when lights are on Yells and broken walls When we are all alon......

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Categories: lights are on, abuse, courage, husband, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mrs Shelly Is Having Difficulty
...Ms. Shelly began to write. Scratched it out. Began again. The lights are on, but no one is home. Scribble Scribble His dendrite field is nonexistent. Scratch. Scratch. She kept writing and s......

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Categories: lights are on, teacher,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Lit and With It
...Singing in shed furthest corner of yard; lights are on in room. Smoking in shack furthest back from house, mind is lit and with it. Nobody to witness me, overhear anything, nor complain.......

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Categories: lights are on, addiction, allusion, drug,
Form: Sijo
Ordered House
...The walls are bare The floors are free of debris The laundry is put away The beds are perfectly quaffed ...ready for habitation Clothes are scattered 'round Dirty dishes in the sink Dusty tr......

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Categories: lights are on, growth,
Form: Free verse
Malice In Underland
...I'm scared to sleep, 'cause I'll slowly creep Deeper & deeper into a frightening world Where Alice is Malice & Wonderland is Underland Where your nightmares come disgustingly alive They'll claw y......

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Categories: lights are on, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas
...It's the time of the year Time for christmas cheer! Friends and family are coming To celebrate christmas together. The smell of the sweets, traditional sweets And; the bright lights are on the......

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Categories: lights are on, 9th grade,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Beware of Potholes
...Driving down that familiar road, For miles and miles and miles it goes, You forget about keeping your eyes on your travels, On that same old bumpy patch of gravel. That highway stretches from ......

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Categories: lights are on, betrayal, divorce, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Bicycle Bicycle
...Bicycle bicycle where are you going Bicycle bicycle what are you knowing Bicycle bicycle where are you flowing Thoughts are of you drifting though lands of the dead, The horizon is cluttered w......

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Categories: lights are on, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Can Hear the Bells
...The ground is frozen, lights are on, white frost on trees, cool early morn, Robins on hunt for garden worms, evenings by fire, singing psalms, when Reindeers bring Santa on tow, happiness, expec......

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Categories: lights are on, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Cathy's Lament
...Cathy’s Lament I shop because I have to I bake because it's tradition I wrap the presents Put up the lights And the stress of it all Keeps me up every night. I clean the house till it spar......

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Categories: lights are on, christmas, fun, holiday, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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