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Best Nightfall Poems

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


Streets of Blood
Streets of blood

She stood upon the terrace high
streets of blood below
The gate left open in the night,
a dark sky threatens snow

With swine and pearls running...

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Categories: nightfall, hate, love, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Good Cry
i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
                             ...

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Categories: nightfall, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Maiden of Summer
She drifts in radiance
waking nightfall with palette's hues,
tresses of amber flames drip of vibrant
sensation… and so, in the glide
of  July nestling on grass and...

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Categories: nightfall, seasons,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Heartbroken
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Khalil Gibran

In days of darkness,
sad stars shimmer like somber souls.
Upon...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nightfall, heartbroken, pain, sorry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Still Winter
Dead Winter Stray~ By: Poet Destroyer

Nearby paces, Combatants lost under the cemetery walls,
“Blessed Men and Heavenly Remedy Women of Ages,”
Feelings of dance at the beginning...

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Categories: nightfall, death, dance, beautiful, woman,
Form: Free verse



Night Silence
Twilight evokes my tranquility and silence of the night,
with my peaceful guidance between the moon and the stars,
the placid eclipse in the universe is so...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nightfall, beauty, nature, night, universe,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Metaphorically Speaking
No matter how long you look to the sky
Rain wouldn't fall if there are no clouds;
So engage the sun, warm up your oceans
And uplift humid...

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Categories: nightfall, encouraging, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sun In - Sun Out
Extreme Sunset


Brimstones past the clouds 
Highlight against the ocean line
Beautiful sunset, warm texture
Warning, the rooster's asleep!

Glorious yellow and orange mixture 
My source of great inspiration
Unmatch...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nightfall, beautiful, beauty, celebration, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Eulogy In My Heart
Out in the middle of a large farmland, I become a girl of old charm and unexpected songs again. Past the flanks where cluttered rows...

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Categories: nightfall, beautiful, grandfather, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Fragile Self
While finding  myself in  season’s twilight
I see parts of life crumble amid grime of ruins,
As a  declining mind wanders to  balance
Gratified...

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Categories: nightfall, introspection, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Fantasies
Winter’s Fantasies

Winter walks the mountain hills at nightfall
Breathlessly awaiting evening’s first flakes of snow, 
An alpine carnival that rowdy clouds threatened to toss upon their...

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Categories: nightfall, fantasy, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Cheerful Robins Dance
Gleefully you and I smile from a scenic window on life
Enchanted by nightfall befriending quixotic autumn sky
Embossing crimson brushstrokes on vermilion arc
Akin to a painting...

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Categories: nightfall, imagery, nature, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blessings of Silence

Belief is the nemesis of uncertainty,
in times of torment we keep faith 
in God's gift of blessings bestowed upon us.

In a world without morals
Children of summer...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nightfall, analogy, mental health, winter,
Form: Free verse
High Tide
High tide
sadness billows
swells over me in waves
massive, silent, overwhelming
melancholy ocean engulfing me
flailing, drowning in emotion
or maybe I'm being
too dramatic
only-

It feels
that dramatic-
my universe slightly
out of orbit...

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Categories: nightfall, anxiety, bereavement, depression, emotions,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member Snow White
*SNOW WHITE*

ANOTHER
BURRRR! BLIZZARD
COMING
DECEMBER 
ESKIMO
FREEZING FORECAST
GHOST-GROUNDS'
HEAVY
ICICLES
JITTERS
KIMONO
LOW-HEAT
MAKING-COCA
NAPPING
OASIS
POWDERY
QUILTS
RESTING
SHIVERING
TURNING TO LOVER
UNDER-COVER
VIXEN-HEAT
WINTER-WINDOWS
XOXOXO's
YAWNING
ZZzzzzz!


*COLD AS ICE*

Zambonice-ing  Your X-winter Whiting-rinks, Visible & Unusual Tough Snow-flurry, Racing Quietly Precipitation, Overflows, Nightfall, Mocking Like-little...

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Categories: nightfall, mystery, nature, seasons,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs