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Lightning Poems - Poems about Lightning

Lightning Poems - Examples of all types of poems about lightning to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for lightning.
Premium Member On the Edge
...Broad moon rapidly drops six feet out of view. A shadow casts on stodgy, trickling of creek. Sharply, a face breaks ground, above plot’s subdue. The late dead stars fall on waters, dammed and weak......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, grave, scary,
Form: Ottava rima



Daemons within gray matter of this male run amuck
...Daemons within gray matter of this male run amuck... hence yours truly (me) seeks mental health services without any luck even after reading Scripture from my namesake who exuded pluck afte......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, abuse, age, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Thunderstorm
...A shy sun hides behind dark clouds as spiders spin silk into shrouds. And because Nature doesn't take sides, behind dark clouds, a shy sun hides. Lightning flashes, lighting the sky; t......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, appreciation, hyperbole, image, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member RIP Erich Anderson And Rob Dier
...Woodsman on a prowl Sneaking around like an owl Noticing innocents getting a fright Watchman you are a good knight Defending partiers in a plight Battling a monster in a murderous fight Er......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, angel, bereavement, eulogy, friendship
Form: Rhyme
When Lightning Strikes
...Effect of lightning Makes the soil full of pores Mushroom comes next day.......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, creation, engagement, nature, perspective,
Form: Haiku



The Thundering Skies
...Darkening clouds from overhead and darken the Earth Crackle of lightning and thunder flash and I wonder how the weather can turn so quick. Mother Nature or God shows it's ugly head as rain comes p......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To awaken means to realize one’s own nothingness, that is, to realize one’s
...To awaken means to realize one’s own nothingness, that is, to realize one’s complete and absolute helplessness. As long as a man is not horrified at himself, he knows nothing about himself. Through ......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wicked Wizard of the West
...The Wizard went place to place In the shadows for disguise A wicked smile on his face And manic prism eyes A crooked hat on his head And a serpent for a staff The master of fear and dread......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Past Pastime
...Humpty Dumpty lived in make-believe land, like dreamy shadows get long; And he dwelt in a house near a wall, among merry, crimson, oriole throngs. He had a figure equally rotund and jolly......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, beauty, fantasy, joy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Fear And Fearless
...Courage of a plane Crossing lightning and pressure Made passengers pray.......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, courage, humanity, power, prayer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Underneath Starry Nights
... "over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar ... Lord Byron My love, we'll meet at eight as we agreed, A storm was near, the lighthouse sent its flash. Would be our lov......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, love, night, storm, wind,
Form: Blank verse
The Voice in the Distance
...May showers are brewing underneath the clouds and the temperature keeps bouncing up and down the ocean floor and the pregnant skies drips water from inside and my heart is singing a sweet lullaby. ......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, adventure, best friend, bird,
Form: Narrative
Wonderful Hell!
...Beautiful land, hematite-like mountains, six dimension space, lightning-colored light Deep world, high world, deep land, and magnificent highlands, mirror-shine ground A transparent world, everythi......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, death, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autobiographical Poet
...As I sit wandering about the south side of Chicago captured effortlessly by the tall dandelions watching the lightening bugs rest on sunken cattails we often lit them just before the sun se......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, books, chicago, confidence, cute
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under a Starred-Studded Sky
...Life, a stage under a star-studded sky, where shadows dance and dreams breathe, one letter carved the difference between knighthood and nighthood. Knighthood, an induction into the realm of ho......Read the rest...
Categories: lightning, dream,
Form: Free verse

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