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Best Overnight Poems

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


Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek The Conclusion
It was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The...

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Categories: overnight, america, death, western,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member This Thing Called Love - POTD - With Winged Warrior
POTD 19 September 2017

Apprehensively I tramp with my lamp - through a path shrouded in gloom
Silvery shafts of light entwine and fight through foliage as...

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Categories: overnight, love, mystery, romance, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jailbreak At Milton Creek
There was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail...

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Categories: overnight, america, humor, violence,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member All Too Wonderful
The trees are given
  to you, to me
The clouds are given
  to us, for free

The grass turns green
  overnight, prithee
The birds sing...

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Categories: overnight, appreciation, beauty, earth, god,
Form: Rhyme
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: overnight, imagery, nature, travel,
Form: Free verse



The Gift From Prison
On a pleasant Sunday morning,
beside a river in a park,
I went strolling in the city,
in the dawn just after dark.
Every bench; any haven,
slept a host...

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Categories: overnight, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Cooked Goose



When you come home late at night
Open the door and turn on the light
You had better be extremely quite
Or your goodly wife you may excite

And...

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Categories: overnight, funny, husband, wife,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Echoes In the Stone
ECHOES IN THE STONE

No one can turn back the hands of time
Reliving the war,  TEXAS her independence
The tombs so deep, where real hero's fought...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overnight, adventure, death, hero, history,
Form: Epic
Premium Member I Started a Joke - POTD
POTD 21 November 2017

So professional in his lies - So ruthless in his ambition
Feeding lies to the simple folk - convincing in his deception
Telling them...

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Categories: overnight, betrayal, corruption, grief, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member If I Ruled the World
If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular and they'd think me somewhat strange
First thing...

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Categories: overnight, conflict, environment, hate, international,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Spring Rain
spring rain overnight
dragging winter's chill...  
the butterfly...

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Categories: overnight, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Sneeze To Spring
It started with a sniffle one March morn’
When on my car that telltale film appeared
And I knew well this coat it had not worn
For overnight...

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Categories: overnight, seasons, spring,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Mummy
Hey mum, could we have roast chicken for dinner?
You know your roast potatoes really are a winner.
Mum, remember you promised to help with my homework...

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Categories: overnight, mom, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pearls Beneath the Harbor
Our bank accounts nearly emptied so we could afford a vacation; two young working girls who'd never been far from home. We were looking forward...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overnight, people, places, world war
Form: Haibun
Obese
Now, I am not a huge man

I'm not large by any means

In fact it is surprising

I still wear normal jeans

My pants don't have elastics

I still...

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Categories: overnight, age, funny,
Form: Rhyme

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