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Best Nightime Poems

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At Nightime
Listening to New 
   Age music 
and relaxing late at night 
Mellow sounds 
   remind me 
that the time has 
come...

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Categories: nightime, music, night,
Form: Concrete



Nightime Haiku
The time has come now 
For night to spread its dark cloak
Peace in the shadows...

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Categories: nightime, dark, night,
Form: Haiku
Nightime
Night-time
moving
stillness...

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Categories: nightime, imagination, life, mystery,
Form: I do not know?
Maximus
There is a spirit that watches over you
    In the daylight hours, and nightime too.

    You may not think...

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Categories: nightime, devotion, friendship, introspection, life,
Form: Couplet
These Dreams
Eyes lie upon precious eyes
his stare, her star, afar
shining in the nightime sky
a closeness they both share

Winds blow in an open window
carrying the faintest of...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nightime, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Red Sky At Night
Once upon a nightime grim
all creatures of Earth dreamed
our Mother was not enough for everyone,
just "me."

This collective nightmare thunderously rolled out
dark implications:

Earth is insufficient for...

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Categories: nightime, earth, forgiveness, freedom, health,
Form: Free verse
Lights Out
starving rising costs

cities are dimming the lights

smorgasboard for crime



nationwide nightime...

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Categories: nightime, sad, satire, urban,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Owls, Silent Magic In Flight
Owls, Silent Magic In Flight


Owls in flight glide so deadly silent
 prey dies so quickly and violent
Claws just as sharp as a razor knife
 nightime...

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Categories: nightime, beautiful, bird, creation, nature,
Form: Sonnet
The Greatest Show On Earth
When shadows of the evening fade,
    And earth she wears her darkest dress,
     It's magic time as stars...

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Categories: nightime, sky,
Form: Villanelle
Scrooge
When dark, the shivered sun of day,
now lose their spark and turn away
nightime cast's it's widow's hook,
and daytime, take's on, nightimes look.

Scrooge had lost his...

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Categories: nightime, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Noah's Ark
God asked Noah to build an ark
he was happy to oblige
but he wasn't so keen
when he found out 
what had to go inside

Two of every...

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© Nik Pearce  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nightime, animal, bible, boat, fun,
Form: Free verse
Soul To Soul
When you look to the stars
as they glisten through summers skies
know that the reflection in your eyes
is my smile, spanning across the distance
feel my breath...

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Categories: nightime, autumn, dream,
Form: Free verse
Demon,Demon
As shadows lengthen
in the asphalt homeland
  The city winds down 
The once vibrant streets 
   are now a home for ghosts
Perhaps you...

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Categories: nightime, fantasy, imagination, city,
Form: Free verse
The Difference In Daffodils
I step out... Between man made Amber street lamps
And natures midnight blue, still life.... crisp, dampness
Not a soul to hamper, mood nor thought.
Moments before witching...

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Categories: nightime, nature, people, daffodils,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Nearly Done - Zany Zig Zag Five Style
~Nearly Done~
(Zany Zig Zag Five style)







Day is nearly done 



               ...

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Categories: nightime, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs