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Short Alights Poems

Short Alights Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Alights by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Alights by length and keyword.


Premium Member In the Hawthorn
A
sparrow
hawk alights-
the chattering
stops....

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Categories: alights, nature,
Form: Lanterne



Premium Member Bantu Number Two
a butterfly alights upon my hand
an ethereal insight completes my verse...

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Categories: alights, imagery,
Form: Other
A New Year's Day Haiku 2022
the old year flies away
the crisp fresh new year alights--
is it the same bird?...

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Categories: alights, allusion, appreciation, time,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Foolish Fire
Jack
o'
lantern
alights with
Fair maid of Ireland
to become a will o' the wisp....

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Categories: alights, places
Form: Fibonacci
The Nature of the Eagle
Scenic eagle flight
      alights smoothly as leaflet
        wild, as beast, attacks...

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Categories: alights, adventure, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Under the Tree
Under the mimosa tree
My poet’s heart alights,
Dapples verse
In fragrant phrase
And blooms
In pink delight....

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Categories: alights, appreciation, beautiful, inspirational, introspection, nature, poets, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hi-Ku Jan 9
a  firecrest puffed up
alights
on our smoke tree

NOTE-HI-KU is any English language variation on the Japanese haiku...

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Categories: alights, word play,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Bird's Eye View
love bird on the wire at last alights
 
             crow's feet embracing laugh lines

                

05/31/18...

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Categories: alights, bird, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alluring
Autumn’s allure adds an awareness 
as ancient Aspen’s amber aura alights all around. 






Written on 10/23/2019...

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Categories: alights, nature, tree,
Form: Alliteration
Sharing a Volume
"Crime and Punishment"
lies open upon his lap.
A fly alights page
two hundred seventy three
and both continue to read....

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Categories: alights,
Form: Tanka
Sharing a Volume
"Crime and Punishment"
lies open upon his lap.
A fly alights page
two hundred seventy three
and both continue to read....

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Categories: alights, imagination
Form: Tanka
Leading the Blind
Charted lanes of custom,
 complacency alights
familiarity trumping all
—mindless in the night

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)...

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Categories: alights, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Raptor Hiku X 2
RAPTOR

sparrow hawk alights-
the chattering
stops


just one flap of wings-
the raptor makes its kill
pouncing down at will...

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Categories: alights, bird,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Fearless Wearing Wings
fearless adventurer wearing wings
alights at end of my fingers
i keep my garden hose steady
unknown bird dips low
loving her drinks...

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Categories: alights, bird,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Downward Spiral of Snowflakes
round and round it comes down, 

white small stars of delight, 

cool tongue as it alights

brisk light crystalline gown


12/6/2020...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alights, snow,
Form: Rhyme
The Anguish of the Creation
The anguish of the creation
is carried deep into the wind’s heart
and alights upon the clouds
so that it will come back
as a gushing water 
upon the Earth....

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Categories: alights, allegory, christian, pain,
Form: Free verse
Purpose
for each,
God has given a purpose
some be movers and shakers
as a mighty oak
most, however,
are but a simple blade of grass
on which a butterfly alights...

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Categories: alights, allegory, butterfly, christian, imagery, meaningful, simile,
Form: I do not know?
Airborne
aquire
                   spitfire
    retire
                    expire
    To soar on wings aquire spitfire fly,
     last flight alights retire expire sigh.

    1/ 21/ 2018....

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Categories: alights, flying, sky,
Form: Tyburn
Premium Member Southern Alight
In the frigid silence of glacial eve, penguins gather tight. 
Emperors, waddling half in black, under half-lit southern night.
One dreams of flight, yet stays on course; with colony alights.
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Categories: alights, nature,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Sequence-Mood Change
Grey
clouds
above-
the sunshine
hides 'neath the duvet..
so,
so
tired
ebbs the tide..
of enertia:
a
call,
a word
in season-
flowers deep within
and
hope
alights
again on
optimism's tree....

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Categories: alights, angst, depression, hope
Form: Fibonacci
Premium Member Anticipation
   Hurtling up steps
     scaling the heights
   Steaming ever onward
     no end in sight

   Remove the blinders
     dear friend, anticipate
   each moment ~
                   ere it alights
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Categories: alights, flying, mystery, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Butterfly In a Tanka
a butterfly alights momentarily. . . beauty limited to five short lines preserved forevermore Aug. 6, 2015 For Line Gauthier's 'Bite Size Poem no48' Poetry Contest
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Categories: alights, beauty,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member A Recitative Haibun
From at to eye imagination alights and explodes.In another's minds eye..matures,excites,ignites..impregnates,conceives..birthes a new creative impulse.

The melodic effect
this beauty of sound..
stays upon the ear...

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Categories: alights, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Said Aloud
From at to eye imagination alights and explodes.In another's minds eye..matures,excites,ignites..impregnates,conceives..birthes a new creative impulse.

the melodic effect
this beauty of sound..
stays upon the ear...

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Categories: alights, poetry, spoken word,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Joy Continuum
each pulse of light, surprise delight if we be not shrouded in fright recognising earth life transience thereby with joy in resonance bliss from which soul never alights 14-July-2021
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Categories: alights, joy,
Form: Quintilla

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