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This gentle loveThis gentle love
By Michelle Morris
02/06/2024
This gentle love
This powerful bond
This light and healing
This gentleness so strong
So much water
My cup is overflowing
Blessings and tenderness
Emotions that are glowing
Lighting up our lives
Filling...
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Categories:
light, emotions, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
The Muses
"The Muses"
Allusions
camouflaged confessions
I have read them all, each page
envelopes emptied
turned inside out
pockets of Poésies
they sprinkle their messages
like confetti, minds popping
like corks, frothy and overflowing
some kind celebration
cupped and bled
stories...
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Categories:
dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
I Emailed you a Tinkerbell GiftcardI emailed you a Tinkerbell gift card, she told me.
Great! I have to look at email.
Not easy.
there are 438, 348, 112 unread emails in my in-box.
I use the search, but cannot find it.
I call her...
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Categories:
light, computer,
Form: Light Verse
enticed by kicking feetmy feet are kicking
high in the air
now the scissor step
making an arabesque design
my first and last husband sees this as sexy
everything I say and do has been sexy
since the minute he began coveting me
When I...
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Categories:
light, husband,
Form: Light Verse
Do you want to Cogitate itDo you want to cogitate it? He asks me.
How did he know I do that?
I was not cognizant of this myself.
There is relief when I look up the word cogitate....
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Categories:
light, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
The Old Rotary*PV - Proverbial Verbiage
The Old Rotary
Dialing out…zzzzip…zzzzzzzip…zzzzzzzip
and
zip…zzip…zzzip…zzzzip
and brring…
long distance was not a thing
for children. they could only
ring those within their corridor
ching…ching
money didn’t grow on trees
the grown up made sure
we were wise
or they’d wise up
our behinds
but...
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Categories:
light, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse
Every Tunic’s TuckedEVERY TUNIC’S TUCKED
squeamish that every tunic’s tucked
on one side, lopsided, uncouth
on the page, in the book - why is
every model told to tuck her hand
inside her pocket, jam her socket
into her pants, plunge me into...
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Categories:
light, angst, clothes,
Form: Light Verse
The Lux
"The Lux"
we entered The Club
danced our way along lines
trialled sentences all
written towards Light
the Dark called us all in
we thought we were like laureates
like laureates
we were all drugged
one way or another
on...
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Categories:
dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
The condo Kookaburra'sEvery thing was fine.
No one complained, and then
one fated day the Kooka burra's came..
People who never learned to keep in their own lane.
They never read our regs., which is very plain,
at first they claimed one...
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Categories:
light, 1st grade, people, perspective,
Form: Light Verse
What is realWhat is real? Pure love and light
It’s the truth absolute
Invoke grace, imbibe bliss delight
In silence resolute
Minus form, who are we
Know this dear and be free
Rest thought, with clear sight see
Don’t think, just feel
What is real...
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Categories:
light, love, spiritual, truth,
Form: Rhyme
I Can Be a LuminaryStitch up my soul,
with threads of the moon,
so as night falls,
as it’s sure to, soon,
I can be a luminary,
roaming,
in her runes.
...
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Categories:
light, analogy, extended metaphor, identity,
Form: Lyric
After the Party
After the party
I woke up
on a tropical island,
it was such
a nice scene,
until I realized
that what
I was seeing
was my own
shower curtain
in the room where
I passed out
after hugging
the toilet bowl
and puking!...
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Categories:
light, hilarious,
Form: Light Verse
Truth and LightWhen the light comes on roaches will scatter
Scampering for the nearest crack, crevice or hole
When gossip comes to a deaf ear there's an abrupt stop to all chatter
Expeditiously in comes the judge allowing truth to...
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Categories:
light, dark, integrity, judgement, life,
Form: Rhyme
The sands of timeThe sands of time
Sand castles
Sand is the word
Inexplicable
To seemingly mold
Itself into time
We are Sand......
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Categories:
light, art, words,
Form: Light Verse
Critterature: The Saga of Veronica VoleThis is the saga of Veronica Vole
Who committed the perfect crime.
She murdered three lovers,
But not all at once,
She did 'em in one at a time.
The first was a lemur,
A two-timing schemer,
Who seduced all thirteen of...
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Categories:
light, animal, humor,
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,
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Definition | What is Light in Poetry?
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