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Best Lullaby Poems

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To Dreamland On Sunset's Lullaby
To Dreamland on Sunset's Lullaby

Gracefully the young crescent moon
ascends the sky like a cosmic tune;
replacing the drowsy pale yellow sun
sinking on a golden glowing horizon.

To...

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Categories: Lullaby, music, sleep, sunset,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Travel Light - a Goodnight Lullaby
Travel light, my dear; softly go
beyond the night’s each black shadow
to another plane. Out of sight
exists a realm of such delight
you may find relief from...

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Categories: dream, Lullaby,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Night - a Pantoum Lullaby
Night spreads its magic cloak of midnight blue
across the sky.  Serenity slips down.
I sing this pantoum lullaby for you
as stars, like sequins, sparkle all...

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Categories: Lullaby, moon, night, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Adult Lullaby
In my arms you can forget your troubles
Close your eyes and leave them all behind
I’ll sway you tenderly to loving rhythms
I’ll comfort you to sweet...

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Categories: health, love, Lullaby, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pathway To Love
As I sit watching fusions of saffron and scarlet hues 
elegantly charm the horizons.
Silently, fluffy lush clouds float by
like a magnetic field drawing me closer,
in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longing, love, , Lullaby,
Form: Prose



Premium Member - Just Be Grateful -
Praying for the day I meet  heaven 
You being there sharing this moment
In paradise here I come with open arms 

Listening to the song...

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Categories: lullaby, beauty, blessing, dream, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Is Cutting Down the Trees In the Rain Forests
the lullaby of butterflies hums
in the early morning air.

a rounded light of gold 
above the purple clouds 
spots a blue filtered peak.

trees unite as one...

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Categories: nature, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Lady
My lady is the wind’s soft sigh through fields of marigolds in June,
A beach night stroll beneath the moon, a cloudless sky, a butterfly.
She waltzes...

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Categories: august, Lullaby,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Violin Notes Fall From Heaven No More
Her trembling twilight 
dims with streaking purple tears
bruised by youthful years of bleeding pain
hurting but never hugged --
locked in the arms of atmosphere’s apathy
that smeared...

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Categories: child abuse, death, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Music To My Ears
When life is like an evanescent dewdrop,
spirits fade like ashes in a cimmerian shade

but then you smile, 
enlightening like a crescent moon,
sparkling in silent serenity.

My...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: love, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Butterfly Nebula
Butterfly Nebula

Far away in the night
A sky full of stars
A song full of notes
A story full of words
And, most importantly…
A poem, full of Light!



I can...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angel, beauty, courage, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flavor of Stars
In restless dreams I sail the night on celestial seas
starlight guiding my way along an uncharted course
exploring constellations with consummate expertise
but it's a secret, so...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moon, stars, , Lullaby,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Erogenously Yours
The room is scented, heavy sweet
Where we converge to please and treat
A lesson book we each have shared
On where to touch when we lie bare

Erogenous...

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Categories: sensual, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Words of Mass Destruction
Words of Mass Destruction



Words like bullets do not have eyes, as they fly in our hearts and materialize
Deleterious breaths that we soon despise, words written...

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Categories: lullaby, abuse, hurt, words, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dear Little Wee One - Nursery Rhyme
oh come, my dear little wee one
      what a long, full day you've had
      ...

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Categories: lullaby, child, children, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme

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