Read one of the 134,619 stories from our 20,078 authors

  • Sign in / Sign up
  • Find ABCtales on Facebook
  • Follow ABCtales on Twitter
Home
  • Home
  • Read
  • Write
  • Forums
  • Blogs

Light Pollution

By adam

Mon, 23 Jan 2012
  • 685 reads
1 comments
 

The earth’s tight curve
wears a neon halo,

A beacon offering all
simple lives want,

Beyond this drift stars, set
like jewels against velvet;

No ships now to guide
they sail on alone.
January 2012.

Certificate U
Poem
After Industry
Miscellaneous
Facebook Twitter 
  • Log in to post comments

Comments

This is just lovely.

Permalink Submitted by shoe on Mon, 2012-01-23 19:15
This is just lovely.

 

  • Log in to post comments

Search form

Type of tale

Type of tale

Biography
Non-fiction
Other
Poem
Poetry Monthly
Story

Genre

Autobiography
Biography
Children's
Crime
Drama
Erotica
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Horror
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Journal
Love
Miscellaneous
Nature
Noir
Opinion
Other Fiction
Other Non-fiction
Philosophy
Quotations
Rant
Reviews
Romance
Science fiction
Spiritual
Surreal
Talecatching
Travel
Unclassified
Western
Young Writers

Read

  • New
  • Cherrypicked
  • News and Features
  • Inspiration point (IP)
  • Competitions
  • Great feedback
  • Picks of the Month
  • Authors you follow
  • My bookmarked stories

New forum topics

  • Retirement: a prelude!
  • collections
  • Waterfall Calculations
  • All Asimov and no Fresh Air
  • recommending a radio program
More

New blog posts

  • Sarge Joe
  • Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point
  • My Next Adventure
  • Two little boys
  • Denver Riggleman with Hunter Walker (2022) The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation in January 6th.
More

About us

  • About Us
  • FAQ
  • Meet the team
  • Contact us

legal

  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies

Help keep this site free! Please click the button to donate to ABCtales.com

© Copyright 2000-2007 Burgeon Creative Ideas Ltd, and the members of ABCtales.com. All rights reserved.