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Searchlights Poems - Poems about Searchlights

Premium Member Jolted by Twilight
...Shamed by being unprepared, bewildered, befuddled, I watch nature transition to twilight, ever so aplomb, with birds and mammals crepuscular, they're at their prime, when the daylight fades to mut......

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Categories: searchlights, dark, day,
Form: Free verse
Stormy Seas
...Serene sunset, star studded sky, seamen setting sail, Sixteen salty sailors, surveying southern seas, Singing somewhat spicily, saucy sea shanties. Sea sirens serenading, seductively s......

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Categories: searchlights, sea, song, storm,
Form: Alliteration



DROPS OF DISHONOR
...all the stuff going on that motel was heating up but the locksmith didn't speak Irish too well & besides he got drunk & robbed the wrong merry-go-round anyway... Sigh Banal as it might seem, it's ......

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Categories: searchlights, animal, anxiety, business, care,
Form: Free verse
Rainbow Shell
...The sun caught you by surprise reflecting your radiance, with its thousands of eyes, searchlights of the day, right when I grabbed you out of the blue gymnasium of the sea as it revealed your ......

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Categories: searchlights, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark
...Darkness lurks furtive in shadows That scan the daylight hours Like searchlights looking for A place like a cave, an umbrella or hole, In which to seep, gloat and ponder Upon the coming of the n......

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Categories: searchlights, dark, day, light, night,
Form: Free verse



Nightclubbing
...They wait in the night-lit brightness. I watch them from an over-magnified telescope; youngsters and older some dripping a scent of latent maturity, a furtive effort to blend and not offend the ......

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Categories: searchlights, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Truce Hovers In the Air
...An uneasy truce hovers in the air combatants tense, no soldier dares to catch a minute's sleep the price of that, far too steep Minutes pass, they feel like hours searchlight......

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Categories: searchlights, fear, soldier, time, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rule of Threes Five
...Pride negatory Better to share His glory God writes your story Special kind of gain We can only learn through pain God may not explain Treasure has a source Wisdom is treasure, of course ......

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Categories: searchlights, bible, christian, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Care In Crisis
...Black and White, no shades of grey, How I remember my early days. I felt so safe and secure, With my family always near. War started when I was two, People stuck together as if by glue. Everyon......

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Categories: searchlights, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Modern Sonnets I
...MODERN SONNETS I I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse. Mak......

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Categories: searchlights, art, freedom, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Starlight and Moonlight Ii
...Starlight and Moonlight II These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations … Deliver Us... by Michael R. Burch for m......

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Categories: searchlights, dream, love, moon, night,
Form: Rhyme
Love Poems Iv
...LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage. ......

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Categories: searchlights, desire, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Wall of Shame
...The astral plane above knew no division of east and west, No barbed-wire border pierced its vast expanse. The sentry reverted his gaze swiftly back to base, His visage firmly fixed in the dark sha......

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Categories: searchlights, fear, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Heat Lightening
...Heat Lightening by Michael R. Burch Each night beneath the elms, we never knew which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance, then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up like searchlight......

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Categories: searchlights, car, crush, desire, love,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets Xcviii-C
...Sonnets XCVIII-CII Willy Nilly by Michael R. Burch for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly? You made the stallion, you made the filly, and now they sleep in the......

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Categories: searchlights, bible, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Sonnet

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