Best Night Poems
Below are the all-time best Night poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of night poems written by PoetrySoup members
Black Diamond Night Black Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery)
Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely,
Sinister...
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Categories:
night, body, death, history, lonely,
Form:
Epic
That Starry NightLike no one before, nor since
you painted that starry night in oils
superimposing your life story.
I feel I know this idyllic village
blanketed...
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Categories:
art, depression, night, passion,
Form:
Ekphrasis
STARRY, STARRY NIGHTSTARRY, STARRY NIGHT
I often look up towards the sky at night,
And wonder who or what is there,
I shout out loud, if you see or hear...
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Categories:
night, stars, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear
Virtuoso Maestro unleash...
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Categories:
desire, music, night, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Oh, Heavenly NightThat night we kissed, my heart became a butterfly.
It sprouted wings and danced across the velvet sky,
then leapt across the multitude of stars there strewn
along...
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Categories:
heart, night,
Form:
Lyric
Night-Blooming JasmineNight-Blooming Jasmine
expert seducer with soft silky lips, silver blue moon
sweetly kisses a slumbering beauty awakening desire;
greeting her lover, Night-Blooming Jasmine unfolds perfumed petals
11-02-2015
Contest: ...
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Categories:
night, beauty, flower, moon, nature,
Form:
Sijo
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
Where The Sycamore GrewThe sun-yellow house seems smaller somehow,
seeing it now with time-worn eyes...
The street seems narrower, and the trees have grown..
and where once open fields spanned both...
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Categories:
night, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
WHEN I STOP AND PRAYWhen the storm clouds boil around me,
And the lightning splits the sky--.
When the howling wind assails me,
And life's sea is rolling high--
When my...
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Categories:
night, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form:
Lyric
Midnight Secret*Secreto de Medianoche*
~On this very Night~
I found myself in a
...
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Categories:
beauty, fantasy, night, passion,
Form:
Free verse
SheolDark Knight-tress
Underneath
This gown I feel nothing
Silk less feelings
The odor of intimate apparel lessens
Vanity fare from any sun
Warrior of beauty
Where have you gone?
A...
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Categories:
night, abuse, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Haiku - celestial seduction
lights weave through snowflakes
teasing and twirling about
distant stars dancing
a brilliant display
wearing only hand-me-downs
the moon steals the show
~FJ Thomas
01/01/2020...
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Categories:
moon, night, snow, stars,
Form:
Haiku
Lover's Moon
Alone I stare in silence at the night
and shiver with the breeze caressing cold
The brilliance of the moon’s seductive light
illuminates...
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Categories:
lonely, love, moon, night,
Form:
Sonnet
Silhouettes in moonlight
~
Cotton candy swirls
on a pink flamingo sky
Late December wishes
that are slowly floating by
Apricot horizons
glowing softly ‘cross the hill
Twilight born emotions
falling on this night so still
Sweet...
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Categories:
good night,
Form:
Rhyme
Amidst The Darkened Veils
'Neath umbra skies I seek a mirrored moment
the breeze a capricious charmer
blows serpentine sways to life
a ballet of tall switchgrass dancers
sweeping edges raspy green
dulling in...
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Categories:
night, angel, august, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Eroticism Of Inspiration
In swoon ‘neath golden moon and sable sweep
let bathe with hues upon my canvas soak
romance a mingle,...
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Categories:
appreciation, art, inspiration, night,
Form:
Rhyme
One Long Last Look
The moon shimmied up her pole in the sky
Winking at me with her crescent eye
The stars danced in time to a silent...
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Categories:
autumn, longing, moon, night,
Form:
Couplet
Opal Stars, Velvet Dreams
~
My thirst now deep ~ I long to quench
to sip this periwinkle wine
In goblets cut of harvest moons
impassioned pleas now cast of time
Tender kisses ~...
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Categories:
good night,
Form:
Rhyme
Moonlight MadnessMOONLIGHT MADNESS
The moon falls out like a secret above the frisky clouds
Daylight and night the stars come in crowds
Like a glistening diamond, I can't stop...
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Categories:
night, adventure, art, beauty, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Teddy Bear-My sweet little Teddy Bear...
Mommy gave 'YOU' to me
Now I never sleep alone at night
The comfort you gave, when God's sunny eyes ran out of...
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Categories:
night, abuse, boyfriend, childhood, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Nature's Way ConstanzaNature's Way Constanza
Sol puts to sleep the hills with light
while gloaming sheds all fading rays
and...
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Categories:
day, nature, night,
Form:
Rhyme
My angel of the waters
My angel of the waters
Dancing in the flame beneath a flickered candle's light
Moving between shadows on the floor
My every thought now focused on the...
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Categories:
good night,
Form:
Rhyme
Lullaby My Lustrous Twilight
Golden-flecked bliss
of enraptured blown-kiss
stardust bestrewn
beguiling skies
bespangled sequin eyes
shimmer in swoon...
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Categories:
angel, dream, heaven, night,
Form:
Lyric
Night's Requiem As light escapes, the lustrous moon ascends
a prelude to the majesties of night
with shining constellations that transcend
and shooting stars that burn with heaven's light.
Night's canopy...
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Categories:
inspiration, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Find everyday
~
Come walk with me
to a heart beat in blossom
Dance in the streets
of a new foreign town
Welcome the evening
with moon beams now swaying
Under the stars
when there’s...
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Categories:
good night,
Form:
Rhyme