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Best Moonlight Poems

Below are the all-time best Moonlight poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of moonlight poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: moonlight, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Moonlight
Painting by Edvard Munch, 1895: "Moon Light"

your soft hand trembles in mine
no words are spoken
we observe our ascending full moon 
as we have every month...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moonlight, death, love, love hurts,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Moonlight Serenade
Blindfolded, he takes me from the car through the humid air of August. He holds my hand, and then surrounds me with his arms, when...

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Categories: moonlight, sensual,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Magical Moonlight
I
love
walking
at midnight
as moonlight shadows
dance on the inky blue ocean
and watch as they sparkle and shimmer like tiny stars,
pirouetting gracefully like prima ballerinas with the ocean...

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Categories: moonlight, moon, ocean,
Form: Fibonacci
Premium Member Indian Ink
INDIAN INK

Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow

A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...

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Categories: moonlight, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Does Your Heart Share This Moon Tonight
“For in your light I dream, as evening takes my hand”

Silently I find my thoughts illumined by your beauty
In soft shimmers of dancing silhouettes
and patterns...

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Categories: moonlight, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alabaster Night
Untroubled is the quiet night
How peaceful is a world that glimmers white
Frost and moonlight have whipped a silver glaze
And silhouettes of trees are black as...

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Categories: moonlight, nature, planet, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Real Men Wear Pink
I stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...

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Categories: moonlight, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: moonlight, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Girl Named Sue - POTW
POTW 1 Oct 2018

Gossip about her
swept the school yard through
“Hey if you’ve got what it takes 
There’s this girl named Sue
For a pack of smokes
or...

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Categories: moonlight, angst, fantasy, teen love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Potd Good Night,Poets of Gold Pens
     ~Poetesses and Poets, Divine~

All over this great planet we live,
Penning our thoughts, and love to give!

With our hearts, as lanterns...

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Categories: moonlight, appreciation, community, love, perspective,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Enchanted Forest
The woods were silent except for the shifting 
soft sounds of his hooves as they fell upon 
the forest floor. There he stood amid the...

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Categories: moonlight, adventure, fairy, fantasy, horse,
Form: Narrative
These Eyes Have Often Been Solaced
 These eyes have often been solaced

by twilight's cotton candy pllows moving silently

towards a sky's velveteen blanket

and angels'silver gowns

By gazing over hills

to where old country...

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Categories: moonlight, age, love, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desires of the Heart
When my heart
was no longer content in solitude;

I asked;

"Oh my lonely heart, 
what is it that you desire?"

Softly it whispered

for her heart beats to ease...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moonlight, dream, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Carpe Noctem
Up above the moon shines brightly;
starlight touches earth so lightly;
passions teasing impolitely.
Midnight whispers, “Carpe noctem.”

Blowing soft the summer breezes
through her hair as nighttime pleases,
and the...

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Categories: moonlight, longing, love, romantic,
Form: Rhyme

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