Best Nights Poems
Below are the all-time best Nights poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of nights poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
nights, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
nights, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
nights, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...
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Categories:
nights, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Who But GodWho but God could paint the evening sky
And use a brush that is a fiery torch?
Tonight, the garish sunset makes me high
In awe, I stand...
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Categories:
nights, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Sonnet
Sleepless NightSleepless Night
Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...
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Categories:
nights, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
When Madness Rides On MoonlightDays 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:
nights, god, life,
Form:
Sestina
Your Judas Like Tan""Child's Play""
You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise,
You scream bloody murder
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...
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Categories:
nights, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Portrait of LoveLet me paint you like a summer’s day,
Upon luscious landscapes where lovers play…
With oils of Celestial Blue and Carmine Red,
Cherry Blossom Pink with a Saffron...
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Categories:
nights, art, color, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
A Gift of LoveAround my mom, I always felt my guilt
My conscience seem to always take her side
Some years ago, I gave her a new quilt
I still recall...
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Categories:
nights, love, mother,
Form:
Sonnet
October SkiesWe are apples growing on our parent's tree, planted by our grandparents from the apples of our great-grandparents ~ author
October skies still reflect in your...
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Categories:
nights, age, anniversary, autumn, grandparents,
Form:
Lyric
On the Other Side of Cobblestone Streetsto my kindred soul
...i know you are out there
somewhere on the other side
across cobblestone streets
that scorn my feet, like hearts
on the pathways and wrong turns
of...
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Categories:
nights, destiny, dream, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Silent PageSilent Heart
Sad, as it maybe, I had to break my OWN heart,
Too many nights, I sat there all torn apart
A dream girl,
Sitting under...
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Categories:
nights, confusion, corruption, dark, deep,
Form:
Free verse
MonsterMONSTER
Shackles nor chains, can't change what it is.....
Never was it, the one hiding under the bed,
It was me, tired of it getting inside my...
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Categories:
nights, abuse, dark, evil, sin,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
nights, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form:
Free verse