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Fear Not the NightFear not the questions of life
Fear not the answers unknown
For the knowledge will come for all or for some
If you seek it on your own
Fear not the darkness to come
Fear not the...
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Categories:
dark, death, life, light,
Form: Rhyme
Falling Light~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
falling light
the tender
touch
of
shadows...
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Categories:
light,
Form: Monoku
Face the musicFace the music
By Michelle Morris
08/05/2024
We all have to face the music
We all have to do our time
Experience and wisdom gained
As we move with the rhythm and rhymes
We all have to...
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Categories:
light, angel, blessing, encouraging, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Paradoxes-dismissal and resonanceParadoxes
Are stories with
Responses of
Disbelief..or a
Certain immediate
And quiet resonance
Which cannot be
Explained..
Nevertheless...
...
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Categories:
light, cheer up, i am,
Form: Light Verse
Divine MagnetismWho said it was blue? When I think of
A window, it is not the colour of grapes;
Nor is it a long stretch of morning field;
Also not a nighttime movie of galaxy film.
Who said red was...
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Categories:
light, how i feel, image,
Form: Free verse
Glossolalia
"Glossolalia"
I closed the external noise out,
and upon entry to that strange place
the colour of Love,
silence broke the heart open
like trumpets penetrate the heavens
revelations were opening in my mind,
and the invisible surrounding me...
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Categories:
light, spiritual, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Play on Words
English words that end in “let”
are called diminutives – did you forget?
All were once of larger size
but were easily diminutized
by the suffix “let” appended
where the word naturally ended.
(Think of it like a tail tacked
to...
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Categories:
light, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Categories:
light, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Deeper RootsYou can burn a book
but not its truth
Flames no match
for time’s reproof
Planted deep
below the lime
Its seeds will flower
— where light to shine
(West Campus: May 6, 2024)
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Categories:
books, light, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Are we there yetDirect immediacy..
Seems to be
A pretty good map
To find This..
Time is shattered
Space explodes to
A vast unknown..
Hold on..
Are we there yet..?...
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Categories:
light, humorous, i am, words,
Form: Light Verse
codependency
light …
and dark -
shadow and bright
are diametrically opposed
and intricately interdependent
we must learn to not fear the dark
for it holds the same delight, the same color
the same purpose and excitement
the same realizations … unseen
and it harbors...
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Categories:
analogy, dark, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Dancing While SingingDancing minds
free singing bodies
Dancing bodies
reserve singing minds.
Minds find faith in wealthy
blue-sky synergy
where bodies have experienced hope
for sacred EarthTribe's
healthiest green integrity.
Whether we feel we must invest
in cooperative minds
invoking compassionate
sacred bodies
Or think we might best...
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Categories:
health, integrity, light, muse,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
That Place
"That Place"
In that place where you were abandoned,
that place, they never thought, you’d come back from,
in that place where it is believed nothing grows
in the long night’s tortured darkness, deep down, well, ...
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Categories:
dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Listening to the birdsListening to the birds as the trees richly green..
Listening to the birds sweet promises of spring..
Listening to the birds, God's promise on a wing..
Listening to the birds and the hope they bring.....
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Categories:
light, abuse, appreciation, bird, environment,
Form: Light Verse
Critterature: Critiquing William Blake"Tyger, tyger burning bright
In the forests of the night…"
Archaic spelling set aside,
And not intending to be snide,
But really, Mr. Blake, I take exception.
While a tiger's luminosity
May pique your curiosity,
What the beastie's wattage is, you've no...
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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,
and more.
Definition | What is Light in Poetry?
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