Spotlit Poems | Examples


Premium MemberThe Siren of Me, Me Spotlit

The world is your mirror, its stage such delight,
You're drunk on the elixir of endless limelight.
Ceaseless is the obsession for attention.
Baseless without foundation, a hollow pretension.

A dazzling array of endless phase shifts,
Keeps any analysis at bay in the mists.
Always in your face, so hard to dismiss.
Always in the media, a relentless hit-or-miss.

There's no let-up, no pause for reflection.
An endless light show, a blatant vivisection,
Of all sucked in by the Emperor resplendent, 
Whose phosphorescent gall is transcendent.
Categories: spotlit, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMosaics

MOSAICS

multicoloured
in
different hues
spotlit
  visible
elusive
a
little mysterious

passionate
insight
 is
enigmatic
&
cryptic
&
figurative

yet
frenetic
to give
 the impression
of
contemporary
enchantment
Categories: spotlit, poetry,
Form: Other


Premium MemberScenaria

SCENARIO
ostentatioun
  everywhere
spreading
in the
hothouse
of
incongruous
reflection

ageless &
  timeless
elevated
living
a
paraphrase
supposedly
  overwhelmingly
in an
atmosphere
  of
 astonishing
    perfection
  flawless
beyond
  observation
an
epochal
 retrospective
of appreciation
in contrast
& spotlit
in  appearance

 so visually
available
&yet  mysterious
impervious
 impassive
 monumental,
 in
reflected
 profile

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Categories: spotlit, poetry,
Form: Other

Premium MemberThe Perfidy of Memoirs

gripping the shards of memories
ignoring the bloodied emotions
why do we torture ourselves 
with that which we cannot change
 
these evocations
vivid
disturbing
invisible to others
but our élan spotlit
driven
instituting mostly patronising
eleemosynary projects
 
perfect recall
subject to
experiences dictated by
accident of birth
the authenticity of memoirs
tenaciously defended
but ravaged by
subliminal influences
a testimony to its perfidy
Categories: spotlit, inspiration, memory,
Form: Free verse

Northwestern Sunshine

Northern sunshine spotlit arm
Shoulder covered, summer fabric
Vogue presented picture

Paper thin skin: soft, precious
Veins, arteries proudly displayed
Rivers that fill oceans

Hands enduringly closed
Phalanges bent awry
Nimble surgical instrument
Categories: spotlit, beautiful, beauty, body, ,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThe Shop Window

Lush leather spotlit, 
                                    A poor girl’s palmprint on glass, 
                                            Kept a world away.
Categories: spotlit, clothes, desire, money, poverty,
Form: Senryu

Remembrance of Creation: Marcel Marceau 1963

Remembrance of « Creation » 1963 (MM)
(Marcel Marceau 1963)

Face white-clown-painted 
hands crossing invisibility
in a white-gloved glissade

a soft, silent shifting, 
a step-slide 
over non-existent windows, walls and doors

a glide into gesture

into signing
a seeking

into a stirring
a knowing 
a genesis 

the stage, his staging
the spotlight on 
in a spotlit silence
Categories: spotlit, memory, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Spotlit By Grace

As wearily, tearfully, one prays, 
Caught in the spotlight 
Of a softly streaming moon,
Who wafts her brilliance through 
crossed boughs, blown
By a gentle breeze’s word
through pine-trees’ canopy,
 

To make the branches nod
and wave and sing in regal harmony 
That doleful tune and echo the rhythm 
Of troubled hearts, and with its psalm
Touch tenderly the freezing soul within:
 

Take in there God’s peace, His grace:
Realize that this light inspires, reminds 
that prayers sent up are always heard  
and no one is ever truly alone.
Categories: spotlit, faith, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
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