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Elephants and the Splendorous MoonBringing branches with their trunks, they start their festival with glee
Swinging silent bells at the pearl sailing in the night sky
Flinging away darkness and dirt, for light to finally see
Singing pearls in the branches, pray...
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Categories:
animal, celebration, jesus, light,
Form: Lento
On Star Shining IThrough The Days
Hello, returning Sun
I see, another day given me
To learn something more… worthwhile.
Worthwhile to my Self
Body, mind, soul
Knowing and believing this dance, is all mine.
Of course… let Nature, and other life join in
With...
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Categories:
light, adventure, beauty, celebration, life,
Form: Free verse
Awake, Now My NightThou cast a shower of light,
so bright,
I would be right,
to believe,
that every star of my night,
has arisen, just,
to shine along with thee.
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Categories:
extended metaphor, light, love,
Form: Romanticism
Let It Shine
Matthew 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
Darkness fades
Into the morning’s soft
Breath, silencing the promises,
Dusk’s gentle caress,
Bleeding sapphire...
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Categories:
light, blessing, christian, fear, god,
Form: Free verse
Shuffle
Tucked in the past
Revealed in time
The unseen deck
Shuffling between phases
Waded by fate
Chaperon with audacious dexterity
Whipping the blackness
With strings of grief
Shredding the light
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Categories:
light, deep,
Form: Light Verse
The lost Gem
The lost Gem
With a sunken heart
l uttered a wail
one that sings
of a direful loss
ravaging the heart
with rhythms of soulless beats
far sighting a scene
fuddled by a murky sight
l began...
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Categories:
light, anxiety, deep, passion,
Form: Light Verse
ItRefuse IT..... all that suffocating apathy
Use IT..... that god given ability
Lose IT..... all that cumbersome weight
Gain IT..... that beautiful dream you contemplate
Cherish IT..... the precious gift of life
Evade...
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Categories:
light, appreciation, business, confidence, courage,
Form: Rhyme
A UK EUROVISION WINNING QUINTET "Love Shone a Light"
upon this
"Puppet on a String"
with a
"Boom Bang-a-Bang"
it helped
"Making Your Mind Up"
to
"Save Your Kisses for Me...
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Categories:
light, music, patriotic, song,
Form: Light Verse
Lunar light whispersThe moon is a lonely man's chalice to drink from
drunken paradise in such darkness we cling unto the light
where the warmth of a thousand candles flickers inside
there it dances with the shadows...
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Categories:
light, dream, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form: Free verse
The stranger of the nightI always wonder, when a car drives past,
Where they are going, how long the journey will last.
Or who they are, the life they have had,
What memories they’ve had, both happy and sad.
I walk the main...
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Categories:
light, appreciation, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
I WAS ADMISDST THE GARDENI WAS ADMISDST THE GARDEN
It was heaven
Referring on early earth
Eden
Shape of things emerging
Free will choice desiring, engaging
I stood midst the flowers
In the field working
6/9/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Categories:
light, adventure, analogy, appreciation, caregiving,
Form: Light Verse
19421942
Not then
Not now
An appearance..
The end of the
Illusion of
Time and space
Beholding
The beauty of
The illusion..
Not then
Not now
Not......
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Categories:
light, words,
Form: Light Verse
The Dissipation, Nothing, Like A Grey Dawn“Why am I here?”
‘Because you are not there.’
___*___
Oh grey dawn, you do still hide so
Glinting through an approaching fog
I see you vaguely lying there, behind
Dormant, still sleepy on horizon’s end
Why aren’t you coming?
Raising...
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Categories:
light, adventure, earth, engagement, environment,
Form: Free verse
cat sharpens her claws on treeswhat are those? I ask, my voice cracking a bit.
They are long deep claw marks in my hemlock tree.
Made by a cougar? A mountain lion? a puma?
My cat cannot stop giggling....
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Categories:
light, cat,
Form: Light Verse
Encouraging ChangeWhat is it that we are intellectual
Of heart to which one lives reality
Or soul of a being to which gives life
We strive dreams and hopes we keep alive
Beaten down by physical...
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Categories:
light, appreciation, creation, imagery, inspirational,
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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