Best Nocturnal Poems

While it feels in the noontide, just steps through the trees,
As the sky bleeds to twilight – the sweetest disease.
On a walk through the maples, an itch of romance, 
As a warm breeze courts Eros at gloaming's advance.

Just a glance woos the shivers, through come...

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screams pierce the night
primeval mating
wise owls winking...

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Edited to include "creatures of the night"

They wait for shadows
to rush and fill their forest home.
Then ushered in by the hoot of the owl
or the whip-poor-will’s call,
they appear as silently as the black of night itself.

A fawn in hiding ambles over to a pebbled pool.
Its...

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NOCTURNAL MESSAGE

I must say
This, my dream, now seems
Not a series of unrelated happenings
In course of a night’s sleep

But were surrealistically constructed
From life’s timeless values lay
Hidden in my invisible keep

Various dream parts    such as
Love    decay    old age...

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old familiar songs
on wings of time
tug at my heart strings

transporting me through
perilous dimensions
where moonlight lingers

and your voice
carries the weight
of the world



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~CITYLIGHTS~ 2021

AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on January 19, 2022 for contest A STRAND (1055) sponsored by BRIAN STRAND ...

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I dreamt a dream of poetry 
That was being written in my sleep
Nocturnal thought scanning 
For the perfect words to keep

Reading it over and over 
Making sure it reads just right
Only then to be awoken 
Before the morning light

Thinking I will remember it 
As my...

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The night is young
And enticing
Still, a lump weighs heavily on my heart
As I sit by the window
And reflect on the cause of life!

Pray, it would seem that, somehow
People get so engrossed in life
That they forget about its illusory power
Or,
Is it that they simply choose
To pretend...

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Twilight surrenders the sky when night takes hold,
offering the throne to the moon and stars of gold.
Luna appears in a sparkling silver gown that glows.
She smiles on the world, graceful in a peaceful pose.

How beautiful is the night to a stargazer like me,
where threads of...

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moon-flame s p
                       i 
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The sun descended slowly
Behind the purple hills, sending
Long shadows behind her.
Night enveloped the vista.
I walked barefoot on the beach.
Did I hear sirens singing?
Their alluring song invited.
Come to us, paradise was there.
But I know of their tricks.
Ulysses tied himself fast to a mast
To escape their cannibalistic...

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When gloaming twilight becomes night darkness
    I begin my nocturnal nightly wandering
            and gazing
at the unfathomable night sky-
             it...

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The sultry night dispelled the light warm breeze,
As he snoozed on the hot sand of the beach:
She smiled and giggled, a dance of a tease,
Till she flew up quite far beyond his reach.

          He moaned; desire...

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Diurnal, nature's early damsel,
donned in dew and vivid peach,
I am in need of dawning's candle;
humor me as I beseech.

Amidst thy gown I often ponder,
musing on the great "to be."
'Tis true, in thought I tend to wander
when amongst thy company.

Alas, Nocturnal's robe lies rigid
on the quarters...

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Never a foe, life made you so.
Gazed at me from head to toe
as darkness sees light through the Owl.
Your nature is a rhetorical "how".
I sort for you during day time.
A visit, I hope isn't a cold crime?
How 've you became fugitive oh nocturnal bird?
Daylight curiosity...

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notice the natural
                       nocturnal of the night-
           never has the naked
  ...

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