Short Lamps Poems

Run
Find your
Treasures in
Dark places, saving
Graces...

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little lamps lift their heads of flames--- ignoring the darkness within them...

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heaven's ancient lamps
dispatched billions of years past
glisten in your eyes...

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summer nights abuzz
  street lamps busy with insects~
        funny things you miss...

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lamps go out : 
from the darkness
I hear giggles 

© Oct 26 2011 cgh...

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Let's turn off the lamps
    let's closing all the curtains
     Let's create  light, love!...

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oil lamps get put off
wicks lacking inner fiber ---
winds are often blamed


13 July 2022...

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street lamps spotlighting the
dainty white crystals falling
night is still - streets glisten...

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small clay lamps
line the edge of the rooftop --
sweets melt on my tongue


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Cannot comprehend
Nor decipher
When amber
Street lamps flicker
Like some sort of
Morse code...

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Savage
Urban jungle
Invade minds,
Bursting bubbles
Of optimism-
There, confused
Under street-lamps
With moths....

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As I walked in the room 

I met 

3 Catholic Bibles 

3 Catechisms (Summary of the bible) 

2 Lamps 

1 Altar 

A bed...

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Thieves run faster
Than the searching light
Into the shadows
Of wrong deeds
To light up the shadows
God lights up 
The lamps in their hearts...

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in the centre of chest
throbs the light of Self
the truth
here within

in tandem the head ovoid
ignites a thousand lamps 
the grid
goes live...

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Still, I see the distance
In your amber-green eyes
The orange street lamps
Eclipsing the moon
My love, I will follow
This warm fire
In your hands...

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The house has been cleaned, 
the hearts have been washed. 
With oil, the lamps are replete; 
all await with bated breath, 
the bridegroom to greet....

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Reborn revamped
The cold the lamps
The ice, the mist, 
My life has dismissed

New born, new Life
The shade, the light
My life has passed into the dark...

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are those Tiffany lamps?
the new neighbor asks me, staring at my stuff.
I have no idea, but I like them, I reply.
Were they expensive? She asks.
Rudest guest ever....

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purple is the
royal gown
of night that sings out
to the sparkling stars
that shine their lamps
so bright and
purple is the gown of night
that we still dream of it...

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a rangoli pattern 
in a Mumbai courtyard --
oil lamps flicker

*Mumbai /m?m'ba?/, also known as Bombay, is the capital city 
of the Indian state of Maharashtra. 

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God's little lamps illuminating the night;
luminescent lampyrids lighting up my darkness... 
                                                    ... like glowing candles ...

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People break things, then toss them to the streets.
Things now abused were once held in high esteem.
chairs 
lamps
vanity
spotted rug
chipped bowl
sanity
All tossed to the streets...

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oh what fireflies
queue their 
amber lamps
bring their
sweet harvest of light
we zip zig and zap
in the still of the night
the fireflies of night and
that is a beautiful sight...

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moth-er
interjection 

mother nature 
interception 

bright ideas
light our way

as moth-less street lamps
end our days

our brilliance as we   er
success ourselves out of existence 
...

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O gushes of air!
There’s a bond so queer
Betwixt fire and you
Here is this, that’s there.

Somewhere you’re the breath
To the ruthless flames
Somewhere you’re the wrath
On the glowing lamps....

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