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Snow Clock

Under streetlights
In the silence of snow
I am back when my breath was last this loud

Electric

You tug at my t shirt with your left hand and your nails graze my skin 
Our pupils dilate, distending out to greet each other in a grotesque bridge of wet, dripping, obsidian flesh
So I feel like a black hole
I am

Categories: streetlights, anxiety, body, break up,
Form: Free verse

City of Streetlights

I remember stark beautiful nights
       Blue nebulae, stars shining bright 
      Constellations, mind-bending sights 
      Brilliant moonshine, rising in height 
      And then ascended, our fuzzy lights
     Heaven vanished, perhaps

Categories: streetlights, absence, allusion, sky,
Form: Monorhyme

Streetlights Part Ii

I'm standing here still, where the sweat of my soul fell__
knee deep in the blood... of our wishing well
Right back here where our troubles began.
where we decided to stand; be us woman or man.
~under the broken streetlight with our story to tell.
knee deep in the blood... of our wishing well
Flows of crimson water began to

Categories: streetlights, death, heartbreak, heartbroken, judgement,
Form: Imagism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Streetlights Part I

Under Glaring lights visions of my mind blurred and hazed
Of Mom's running in circles, Dad's trapped in a maze_ 
Living the same cycles of life, refusing to change their ways.
Lil sister and bro's facing harsh growing pains__
realize hard work don't guarantee profitable gains.

Rate race moving too fast, everyone's driving so crazed_ 
Fearful of being the

Categories: streetlights, dark, destiny, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse

Streetlights Over Apple Trees-A Haiku

Streetlights Over Apple Trees - A Haiku
meandering thoughts
a single, tall streetlight stands
over apple tree
~
orchard large gardens
amazing smells apple sauce
street lights the way home
~
after long eve walk
a single, tall streetlight stands
over apple trees

6/12/19

Categories: streetlights, analogy, environment, fruit, light,
Form: Haiku

Street Lights

I listen to the streets
they have all the right names
at dawn I stand under the lamps

blueish grey skies part open
the day is welcomed by the warm morning sun 
electric mind illuminate me 
reveal all the answers I need

I continue to walk against the morning clock 
and the street lights hum in tune with me
life is

Categories: streetlights, age, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse

Streetlights

Early hours lost, dark clouds
Flapping in the winter wind,
Candles simmering with
Blue flamed concentration.

Words are sparse, just below
The crust of loneliness,
The march of thought dismissed,
In disarray, the boat of souls

Cast off bravely long ago.
It cannot last, this wash
Of constant neon slavery.

In silence, starving shadows
Lay low, like lurking cats
Longing for attention.

Categories: streetlights, dark, light,
Form: Sonnet

Streetlights

The daylight hours start to fade and die
Darkness creeps upon us like a stalking black cat
Streetlights flank both sides of the road 
Looming large like massive matches waiting to be ignited
Special sensors activate, striking them into life
Dim at first then building to illuminate our way
Gradually the lustrous shimmer intensifies
Glowing giant angels with gleaming halos
Sodium bulbs

Categories: streetlights, light,
Form: Free verse

Streetlights

Streetlights in the night air
Streetlights light up the city 
Underneath them youth yearn 
Teenage boys and girls embrace 
An old man passes by 
    Alone he heads for his abode
    Where he can sleep
Autos rush by 
their "whoosh" resounds in the urban evening 
    Gazing from

Categories: streetlights, city, urban,
Form: Concrete