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The Bare Essentials
A lady who entered a nudity contest
complained the fee was in excess
of her paltry means. To an all male jury
she pleaded: Gentlemen, as you can see
I lack the monetary essentials
but not the bare credentials!...
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Categories:
light, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Dilemma
There’s so much more I need to write
though fewer days and nights remain;
and the more I worry and complain
the less time I have to write –
it’s a dilemma with no future
and likely one I’ll never...
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Categories:
light, dark, humor,
Form: Light Verse
FamilyFamily is like
Your emergency flash light
They lights and guides you....
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Categories:
family, life, light, love,
Form: Haiku
Star-crossed at KaraokeMobile ring tones at morning light,
disturb the shapes under covers,
the outlined echoes of last night,
two star-crossed microphone lovers,
drawn from opposite ends of town,
yesterday’s pub entertainers,
way on down at the Old Three Crowns,
they met singing Gloria...
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Categories:
emotions, light, love, morning,
Form: Rhyme
let's be haughty and stuck upThe couple wanted to eat at an exclusive restaurant.
Wife said, “Let’s act like we are haughty and stuck up.”
Husband was all in; so they ate with pinkie fingers up.
They were ultra-rude to the waiter; noses...
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Categories:
light, humor,
Form: Light Verse
ding dong Avon callingDing dong!
Avon calling
it is 1953.
Women rush to host a fragrance party.
The Avon lady is lying in wait, ready to sell.
Ding dong!
You cannot come to toe door in your house dress.
Your lips will be blood red...
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Categories:
light, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse
A Higher CallingIsaiah 55:9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
My heart wasn’t in it,
When love turned sour and
Because I’m...
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Categories:
light, faith, forgiveness, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Zen modehumming toroidal heart
looks at the head ovoid
which now glistens with light
that is gifted to it by Self
which dwells in heart’s core
the seeker who sought is dead
all that that now glows is Self
which as of choiceless...
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Categories:
heart, joy, light, self,
Form: Free verse
Darkness and light
Between darkness and light.
Reveal the magic of night.
Cast shadow over the beauty of light.
Find solitude in the quiet of night.
The curtain comes down on the day.
Its histories are fading away.
Into memory or just...
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Categories:
light, absence, dark, day, fear,
Form: Free verse
SPRINGS COOLING NEW DAY RAIN-New day spring has sprung
prequel before cleansing
Father so cleanses the air
evaporated wet air rain
with raindrops of cooling rain
this thing falls we thank Him
advance for sunshine as
Within as...
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Categories:
light, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, environment,
Form: Free verse
Music--with and without wordsMusic
Story with and without
Words..seemingly
Identifies separateness
Individual or nation..
Appearing as This
Filled with nothing
Inspiration arising
Freedom
For no one......
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Categories:
light, words,
Form: Light Verse
Short And SweetGive no ear to evil
nor lead eye to that which
will mislead the soul --
where the heart resides~
there, the spirit as well
makes bunk --
...
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Categories:
light, character, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Big Bang
Scientists make it appear
the Big Bang’s responsible
for everything that’s visible,
and why you and I are here.
It’s just a theory, keep in mind,
without conclusive proof.
Besides, any “bang,” big or small,
on reflection you will find,
is...
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Categories:
light, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Her Husband's Legacy
Here lies my husband Fred
who died from overeating bread;
before our hungry children’s eyes
he grew to an enormous size.
I know, of course, and ‘tis my belief
the dead one day will find relief
among God’s angels in...
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Categories:
light, dark, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Permanence as NothingThere is
Permanence
Seeming as hidden
In the moving and
Tumultuous flow
Of life..
Permanence as nothing
May be the resonant
Narrative......
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Categories:
light, mountains, perspective, tree, words,
Form: Light Verse
Specific Types of Light Poems
Read wonderful light poetry on the following sub-topics:
bright, candle, christmas, dark, darkness, funeral, inspirational, love, red, science,
and more.
Definition | What is Light in Poetry?
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