Short Lamplight Poems

the lamplight hue an indicator of all the shades of wrong within...

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Slumbering beneath the lamplight,
As though he is bathing in sunlight....

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night is 
a mystery
a time of
shadows
lamplight
and lovers
whispering...

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Fishnets,
lamplight legs,
broken raincoat.
It happens.
Baby sings my blues....

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It’s been waiting all this time: a spill 
of lamplight, smell of fresh-baked bread....

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Low lamplight at midnight
Ripped jeans & fishnets
Red smeared on stained lips
Twelve steps
You taste like a Halsey song
But vanish like a daydream...

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hold eternal thy purest thought
for surely the flowers will bloom they must!

questions are asked, meanings are sought,
answer to none but thy purest thought...

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In this guest room I only have this brown king-size blanket
To comfort me while I am also cloaking my movements
As I am dancing, listening to my headphones as I crank it....

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A Shadow falls across the Moon
     The evening seminar stops its tune
     College has ended for this same day
     Except for what with the few last student's
         lamplight rays....

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Corseted like a buxom women
in deathly white with orbs ripe.
Pierced with stem of male delight,
a Vampiric presence in the patch
albino pumpkin in lamplight 
grub laced fright.
Pupilless eye 
of ghoul’s night....

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Lamplight moon sits watching me;
watching her,
through my telescope.
Sister Moon floats 
in centrifugal dance, 
never
becoming dizzy.  
When she tires, 
brother Sun will dance In her place, 
while she sleeps.
...

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cherished memories of the dearly departed


--- a person unique, so unforgettable ---


a presence almost palpable:



near a faint pool of lamplight


in an otherwise darkened room,


he lingers even now,


hovering like a ghost....

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Chromatic echoes across the walkways;
lamplight casts its hues amid the leaves
revealing the laughter of its spectrum.
Walking together amid the cooling raindrops,
ecstatic vibrance lifts the spirit;
showering respite.
...

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Yellow Wall, Midnight Mind

once, I knew this place
hidden in glowing lamplight,
clawing at my feet...
 beyond yon door, woe-
from yesterday, ran away
lost in yellow wall

-inspired by Van Gogh's painting "The Night Cafe In The Place Lamartin In Arles"...

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Moonlit was the park,
its trees not needing lamplight:
shadows drifted steadily.
Moonlit met my need,
so I was in the right place,
looking up to all night's stars.








Moonlight Delight

9/7/2017

A 3rd place win
in Russel Sivey's contest...

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Recalled scenes, like diamonds gleam 
Scattered on velvet black 
Cloth of midnight shadows 
All laid out displayed in showcase 
Lining the dark chambers 
In this graying head, where 
the lamplight of recall is hung 
Illuminating a frontier 
where I stay always young....

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Loud passion satisfied
Lovers lay in the lamplight
Joined together in mutual hush,
Silence does not scream as it used to
Light does not crisp the skin of the fragile 
Intimacy, germinating from a cloth chrysalis
Loving like lunas with
Dusted wings and an affinity for the light...

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All kitty feathery 
And delicate as can be 
She kitty cuddly, charming, erect
With-suited joyful whee
Left space on sofa per-fect
Next to lamplight glow·y

Pursue and hurried to me 
When I made the scene 
Sprinkle kitty meows of glee
Yours truly to sit next to   
With a delicately 
Embrace and woo-woo...

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lamplight
shall
go with us
upon
the
time travel journey
that
glimmer of hope
thus
we
shall
take the lamplight
into
ancient dark caves of mankind
between
the 
cracks and cliffs of time
through the narrow 
twists and turns
to shed some 
philosophical light 
somewhere
upon
the
hopes and dreams of mankind...

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R emember that night we first met,
O ver by the fountain in the square?
M y heart skipped a beat seeing you there.
A lready in love once I caught your smile.
N eath the lamplight, where you had stopped awhile.
T ender and gentle that first kiss.
I knew right then I could not resist.
C upid shot his bow, I'm now Mrs, not Miss....

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Snow came throughout the night,

Not that we were aware.

Outside though it gently fell,

We awoke, and could but stare.  

From our frosted window panes

All looked so serene.

Lamplight lit a wonderland,

Lustrous winter, gleamed.





Acrostic Poem about Fall or Winter Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Janice Canerdy
6/9/2017...

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I stood in the rain tonight,
close to the water''s edge.
Fog and moonlight,
cold, damp sand.
I stood in the night,
clinging and cool,
with long, shadowy
lamplight around me.
I dreamt of you,
miles to the west,
touched by a different sun,
and tasted the salt of waves,
loud and close.
I stood in the rain tonight,
and thought of you....

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white fluff on branches imitates coldness of the wind
bridge is slick, icy, treacherous, lying in wait.
one lone lamplight tries to add warmth, to no avail.
This is winter.



                                     frosted landscape
                                 glittering ice covered bridge 
                                        i see treachery...

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Dark wine reminds me of you
The burgundies and cabarets
The tang and thrum and hiss
That spiral like Egyptian silk

Nights that swell like cork
This night, a thousand
Under va single lamplight
In public or alone
Very late or very early
When I write my poems

Something of you still taut
Still tugs still pulls
A rope that trembled
Hummed between us
Hummed, love, didn't it
Love, how it hummed...

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Suspended like a lemon drop
 on the tongue of night
the moon melts 
on the clarinets keys

Haze, ever present,
 on this humid September eve,
blurs the edges of reality
calling forth images 
	of sweet beginning
the howls of wolf..
as the sax soars
and the warmth of blood.


A firecracker night
sparks
	spinning in lamplight
basking in blue velvet
humming with the whir 
of cicada's
with the brushes
on top hats....

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