Free Verse · Love
The Lighthouse
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“The Lighthouse” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/i-fell-for-the-lighthouse
Quick facts
- Poem
- The Lighthouse
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 7 lines
- Form
- Free Verse
- Themes
- Love, For Him, Short
Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalThe Lighthouse, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 e04e5fcde205f202…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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