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Lights Out Poems - Poems about Lights Out

Lights Out Poems - Examples of all types of poems about lights out 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 lights out.
Premium Member Firefly--Known as Lightning Bugs in Texas
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fireflies dance onto their star-studded stage. I watch them with awe, wonder, and delight. “Oh, firefly, oblivious to your beauty in blackest night, come......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, insect, night,
Form: Haibun



Champagne Flavored Spheres
...The delicious aroma circulated As the heat from the oven radiated The stove top warmed As white chocolate chips melted downward Into a candied thick syrupy puree. Thoughts flashed across my ......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, deep, food, hurt, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Firefly
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fireflies dance onto their star-studded stage. I watch them with awe, wonder, and delight. “Oh, firefly, oblivious to your beauty in blackest night, come dance......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, insect,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Crickets Comply
...Luna rises high into an ebony sky, when bats begin to fly. Silence seeks sounds to amplify; and as crickets comply, Luna rises high. Flashing fireflies nearby start broadcasting lights th......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, beautiful, change, hyperbole, image,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Machine
... Beyond a big, yellow ‘DETOUR’ sign, an enormous machine with flashing amber lights and frightening teeth is grinding asphalt down, moving slowly along the street leaving a grooved wake ......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, night, power, sleep, sound,
Form: Free verse



To be different is your superpower
...To be different is your superpower, An incantation hidden in the heart of midnight, A silver vein in the dark fabric of the world, Where dreams whisper ancient secrets and reality slips through ve......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I have come to believe that the entire world is an enigma
...I have come to believe that the entire world is an enigma, An innocuous enigma, turned into a monster by the mad attempt To interpret it as if it had an underlying truth. But perhaps this attempt ......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
when the lights dim
...When the light dims The man in the lunch café drank 3 tall glasses of wine he spoke loudly trying to draw attention to himself not that I'm an expert, but he was, clearly divorced and on holi......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, absence, abuse, age, write,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Always Blooming
... Chetta is the nom de plume of a brassy, classy, sassy, and a little bit trashy sister of the summer sun, she's a lover of sugar and spice and everything nice; feels sunny, funny, and a little p......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, life,
Form: Bio
Lights on the river II
...Red orbs float above their shattered crystal columns reflected below ......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, light, red, river, water,
Form: Haiku
Women remind us of our animalistic side
...Women remind us of our animalistic side, A deep reflex, carved into the layers of our subconscious, A primal call, pulsing through every vein, So hidden, and yet so visible in their eyes. In the ......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Runaway Thoughts
...All aboard thoughts, there's plenty of space. Ignore what lays at the forefront, it's about time it departed. Outstaying their welcome, promoting themselves as guardian. Any excuse to be at ......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, absence, lost love, sad,
Form: Free verse
I know that I have died before
...I know that I have died before— once in November, once in June. How strange to choose June again, so concrete with its green breasts and bellies... The city of Ia?i will not mind. At night, the ......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Earth Stood Still
... The Earth stood still Dirty black shoes Ripped up jeans Stopping me on the road We were so young when I first met you October sky Dark March nights Birthdays in July I was ......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, heartbreak, longing, lost love,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Quiet Time
...Bluebird, have you flown away Only to return someday? If that's so I understand Yet I'll still be at your right hand When, and if, you'd like to text Waiting for what happens next And here and......Read the rest...
Categories: lights out, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme

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