Best Nightly Poems

REVISED OCTOBER 16, 2019



New Jersey’s cloven-hoofed devil 
makes his way to the jetty
beneath the blanket of twinkling stars, anguish unabated 
his appetency growing stronger each day

her song rose like mist upon salty tide
creating an irresistible allure
perhaps a mermaid so fair
can be the auspicious boon he...

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Unrequited Love And Sad Nightly Calls

Wherein solitude, shades long day's travails
my desire for your true love yet remains.
Nights arrive, I battle through living Hells
death knocking loud with heartbreaking pains!

O' that your deep sorrows, you had not found,
into your private island had not fled.
Now, I am...

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As summer begins,
frequent visitors woo me;
Mosquitoes in stripes~
Stealing kisses on my cheeks,
Leaving kiss marks left and right.



September 9, 2021

A Buggy Tanka Poetry Contest
Sponsored by M. L. Kiser
2nd place...

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The shadow in the night beckons.
I slowly rise from my warm and cosy bed
Only to follow the urge that drives me mad
Into spectral half-fledged woodland,
That spreads beyond my lonely tower.
 
Without volition, I approach slowly
A great, gaunt gate that towered
Over a ghostly path among the...

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silence
across the table
sat with him
dressed in black
in the death of night

while his world slept
they waited there
refusing to slip quietly
in the hush of night



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on March 3, 2019...

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Evening enchantress, she carefully selects
The most exquisite place in the sky to repose.
A marvel is our Luna, inspiring 
Silver poetry, tides, and young forbidden love.

Delicately pretending to not watch
At the same time, missing nothing
Stirring imaginations, inspiring music and song.
Tempting the super controlled to be more...

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I see that you have been in a coma for two days and I hope you can hear me,Johnson, I'm going to check your vital every two hours just to see if there ant changes,Johnson,my name is ruthie your nightly nurse, and while I'm here...

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Trough nightly whisper
A pale moon hides behind clouds
With dancing shadows

A far murmur from the woods
Soothing gurgle from the creek
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Nächtliches Flüstern
Ein fahler Mond hinter Wolken
Mit tanzenden Schatten

Ein fernes  Murmeln vom Wald
Ein sanftes Gluckern vom Bach
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Susurro Nocturno
Pálida luna detrás nubes 
Sombras bailando 

Murmullo lejano del bosque...

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Although even in childhood, the nightmares sometimes came
They grew far worse when Dan died, and I shouldered the blame
He followed me when I chose to swim across a lake
In the middle he cried out, “This swim I cannot make!”

Engaged for just one day, wedding plans...

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Resumption of daily/nightly constitutional

I accompany my dark shadow...
(many hours before edge of night,
where twilight zone evokes night gallery),
and resumed walking a circuit
around perimeter of parking lot
today, a breezy temperate
twenty fifth of April two thousand
and twenty two, and perhaps
if regularly habituate myself
to said stroll physical endeavors
may...

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Fire in the sky.
The sun must have exploded.
Now darkness descends....

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( NIGHTLY ROUTINE )

I look up to the stars above,
and I wish for your love.
I close my eyes so hard and tight,
and pray to God with al my might.

This is my nightly routine,
I ask for the boy within my dream.
I hope someday it will come...

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Drops of oil
Scar the soul
Scare the mind
Steal the life

Dead
Cold

Frigid and still
Creeping vines
Inching in the dark
Sealed rosebuds
Fall to the ground
Trembling in the wind

Vultures
Beak and Talon
Silhouette against the moon
Darkness under the wing

Tick
Tock

Midnight

Tick
Tock

Die...

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Once upon a time I saw night like day
Having no fear from absence of daylight
Sun or moon, I enjoyed both in the same way
Loved the coming of stars in the twilight
Peaceful became dread like the greatest sin
Fearing not the dark but what lurks within 
Hidden...

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Like the moon pours its light
Over a forest, in silence
Echoing the music of solace
Graceful like the sigh, inspiration
Healing darkness, nocturnal
Blessings venturing beyond the moon
Stars in glimpses of hopeful shimmering
Promising to make wishes come true with their laughter,
Blessing the heart, the soul – with 
Knowing that...

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