Best Sadnight Poems
Did you hear the night bird call
as Summer tumbled into Fall
and leaves piled up against the wall,
it's then you miss her most of all.
Did you hear the night bird sing
as Winter tumbled into Spring
though flowers bloom, no joy they bring,
her absence colors everything.
Did you hear the night bird cry
as endless seasons tumbled by,
unanswered still, the reason why
she left you here alone to die.
Did you hear the night bird's song
as time forever tumbled on,
memories, the grief prolong,
without her everything is wrong.
The night would steal his love away
across the bridge of the moon.
He knew that it might try one day,
But it has come that bit too soon.
It cut itself a creature,
From its own satanic cloth,
And a rider plucked from Hades
Did bestride this behemoth.
Oh hear the sound
Of pounded ground
Beneath its fissured hooves!
See the craven ravens
Seeking highest high-up havens!
And the dizzy weak-kneed witches
Hiding timidly in ditches.
The bats, the rats,
The mice, the owls,
The creatures that slink through the night;
The foxes and stoats
And blubbering toads,
My, how he puts them to flight!
Evil will fear greater evil,
more than it fears good;
And even the daemons and dusky elves
Risk refuge under the Church’s rood.
Oh hear the churning of crumbling earth,
The turning helpless ravaged turf,
The creaking croaking breaking trees,
The rivers sprinting to the sea,
The children crying,
The weakened dying,
And the distant hiss of burning hope.
My prince, my prince, wake up, wake up!
The gate is opened, the drawbridge down!
Where is your armour, where your sword?
The lady will give you just reward!
The night has stolen his love away
across the bridge of the moon.
He knew that it might try one day,
But it came that bit too soon.
Form:
**This poem is too long and will not fit so I had to break it into two parts, please read the second part!**
A lot of people in our family have suffered with addiction,
But most of them are the more commonly thought about kind, smoking, drugs, and alcohol.
But you, you have a unique one.
Work used to be your addiction, you lost yourself to it.
Now you’ve pushed even your work aside, now you’re stuck on that stupid computer game.
It’s taking over your life!
When the summer began you promised we would have a game night once a week.
Apparently you were thinking of only a game you could play.
It started out casually going on in your spare time,
Slowly creeping its way into your life, it took you over.
Now you spend money, real money,
money we could have spent on something for the family, on your stupid computer game.
You stay up all night talking to people you don’t know online,
While I sit in the other room with a hole in my heart, a hole that only you could fill.
You make international calls to people you have never met, people that you never will meet.
But you know what?
None of that is the thing that really bugs me.
The thing that really bugs me is the fact that you don’t even realize you’re addicted.
I suppose that’s normal for addicts.
They don’t realize they have a problem.
They don’t realize they’re pushing those who love them away.
They don’t realize they’re turning into someone different.
When we found out that Kyle had an addiction to coke,
You made us exile him from our lives,.
you made me have to completely turn away from my own brother in his time of need,
because you thought it would work.
And you know what?
You were right!
It worked!
He’s not addicted anymore, it cured him.
Now my question is,
Would it work for you too?
Is that what we should do?
Should we completely exile you from our lives, just so you can kick your addiction?
Well personally I don’t think it would.
I don’t think it would because you don’t even realize you have a problem.
You don’t think anything is wrong.
Teardrops falling from my eyes
Falling up into the sky
Were dreams float up broken and dry
Falling up into the sky
To a place were hopes forgotten lay
Floating up night and day
Hands reach up people say
Teardrops fall from skies of gray
At night dreams float to stars above
Shining bright for all to love
Sparkling and shining till clouds they hug
Smothering the peoples love
Teardrops falling from my eyes
Falling up into the sky
With broken hopes and dreams they lie
On this night....
Screaming and yelling is all I can hear
I want to get up, But fear reappears
I swiftly close my eyes But can't fall asleep
I hear a series of shots, From across the street
Once again, It's just like before
I rise to my feet , Then drop to the floor
Shaky legs, And Watery eyes
Praying prayers, I just want to survive
Bloodstained spots,Yellow tape surrounding
Broken fragments of glass,Who's underneath
The blanket of death
One cough, One whisper,One last little breath
Family and friends so violently wept
Rants of revenge, Are bellowing near
Frightened eyes, shed clouds of tears
Into the night I slip away
But not so quiet return at day
I blankly stare upon the walls
My breath escapes into a fog
A not so quiet day like this
I feel as if I don't exist
It's kind of late into the game,
But life goes on, Its all the same
A drink or drug could never heal,
What's happening is still so real,
You can't imagine how this feels
A broken heart, A wounded soul
Swollen lips, Dead body cold
A second, A day , A breaths taken away
A minute, An hour, A loss of human power
Every month and every week
So many more lives are taken quickly
Is time running out, Are eyes going blind?
Are ears going deaf? Will there be anything left?
My heart's in remission to end it right here
My body's positioned to stand up to fear
Existence is determined, The struggle against defeat
The time is coming up so fast, Into the night I weep
From the moment we arrived,Terror increased
Now is the time for us to pack up and leave
A hard look at our life, Has made us sober
We have no choice but to start over
My family and I lived through nightmare after
nightmare in our old apartments for 3 years
and just 2 years ago, we moved. Thank God
he made a way out for us to escape safely.
If everyone could dream the night away
Each time they lay their head
Next to that special person in their thoughts
But it is sadly, a lonely bed
The trip back home is hard to bear
Not knowing when the time will come
To feel that blissfulness yet again
But now if feels all undone
To be given a chance at that life again
Across the shining sea
Could cause happiness without compare
“Together again, will it be?”
At the present time we face
The struggle to get back there soon
But just look to the sky each night and say
“Together, we are watching the moon.”
As I look at the land where I was born
I search far and wide for years now gone
When every waking moment was ripe with hope
When to reach for the stars all you needed was a rope
Where the days were a flurry of scenes so sweet
Where the night was just that, a time to sleep
And the dreams were filled with happy thoughts
Coming true in haste and not always sought
I remember the height of my life would be
To just lie on the beach and then swim in the sea
The sheer excitement in my face when my father showed
The train tickets to the northern peaks all snowed
Oh the soothing calm of a walk in the lane
With no thoughts or qualms or worries or pain
And the wind so kind on the body caressed
Just a gentle reminder of a land so blessed
And then one day in a blink of an eye
What I thought was mine till the day that I die
Was consumed by a fire raging hot and bright
Like a blinding flash summoning a dark endless night
And in that fleeting moment, my whole world changed
Bringing grief and sadness and a nation so drained
Deforming the way of life that we knew so well
Quoting religion falsely to have their needs propelled
And with such brutal force did the tides turn
Not just villages and towns but whole cultures were burned
Crushing love and tolerance all values in psalms
Moulding a whole new way, a new version of Islam
Preaching hatred against all, no one left to escape
Forcing a veil on life, the real teachings were draped
Fearing only the truth which could alter their fate
Using might and terror against the challengers to their faith
I look away, holding back the tears in my eyes
Wondering how a land so rich and wise
Could lose it all in such haste, such a small space in time
Why the leaders let it happen, such a heinous crime
And it dawns on me the reality of things
That there is nothing more important than what education brings
As a nation we have failed to pay our debt
Having bred illiterate fools than a country more adept
Form:
When night falls it brings rise to my smile and mood, I rush for bed; sleep is the time
where I am most alive. I smile into your eyes as I kiss your forehead then your nose
and down visiting your lips for an extended stay before once again smiling into your
eyes as I pull back. I roll you over, your back now pressed against my chest and I
continue to firmly hold your body. The closeness ignites the heat, now open hearts
in open hearth we melt; ingot moulds; we are one. One body, one mind; one smile;
one love and we at peace sleep. I am in love inside this nightly ritual and dream,
when morning arrives and your absence is once again discovered, thus triggering
the nightmares clock punch until once again night falls and brings rise.
Though I only knew you for the moment
forever more will you dwell with me
A love as true as the ocean’s blue
can be found in you so free
Do not take offense for crimes such as these
for I barely knew your name
But forever more shall I speak of the
when I think of that night back in Mary land
It was a fonder time then these
That I long for I do confess
what was once the loveliest of hearts
is now a shriveled wretch
So good bye I shall look for the no more
for no more can I with stand
The thought I lost what was once so dear to me
back on that night in Mary land
Form:
Who'd dare the exacerbation of the cloud
and cut the fire for the grave;
tell the Epaulette he's a bum;
break the choking silence
and burst the truth for the street?
Night, night oh barbaric night
pregnant with cordite blood and brine
humiliate the essence of life and living
as the grumpy ravenous sword
plant dirges in every field:
the Epaulette.The overlord.The fear.
Mourning morning night morning
talking stars would be in the pen
a-roosting with the cockerel
to plant feints in opposing maths
to see the yet unseen day of light.
The roads are hasty avowals
where Erebus holds the sceptre sway
where life's like a pebble in the sea
where masks cruise with the law in the lawless
leaving in their wake,requiem mass blood and tears.
Who'd break the silence?
A night flame burning high,
Reaching to the sky, why?
Wind whips, the dragon appears.
What you see is real?
How sharp the edges,
Cut like a knife,
The night air.
Love me till tomorrow,
Be with me always,
Not just in my heart.
I am going away,
The Alabama moon,
No longer shines for her.
Your eyes,
Do they see, they are seen?
Reach to the sky,
In the mist the ghost appears.
Ride the wind,
The dragons flames,
Ride, ride, open up inside.
Always the ghost,
Lurking waiting,
Ghost of past, so far back.
No one can see,
But all is seen,
Dance with the wind,
Feel the vibration, touch.
Love life,
I am not the one for you,
I have no morals,
Go skinny dipping, fun.
Clap your hands,
Squeeze mud between your toes,
Sara sing, lace and flowers.
Black ribbon on the door,
See the gypsy dance,
A fire blazing,
The ghost is gone,
May he rest in peace.
The moon provided spotlight
Music in the wind
A couple joined together
To have just one last dance
This would be the final night
They would spend together
Come morning light
The would say goodbye
Part company forever
Despite one love
There were two worlds
Differences between them
Each one realized
Inside their hearts
They would not last forever
Could this night
Stay in their minds
A memory to cherish
If time could only be their friend
This dance would be a treasure
The moon too quickly disappeared
Music stopped its playing
Neither one took one last look
Disappeared in two directions
But in their hearts and in their minds
The tune would live forever
The night they had one final dance
Last night they were together
It's so hard
So cruel
This night
Will never end
Another dark world
Stretching on to
Eternity
I've been here before
Night after night after night after night
And it's never any
Easier
I wait
Forever
I'm always waiting
The creation
That follows
Is not
Enough solace
For the sleepy
State
I suffer
Without respite
Without release
Into that
World
I know awaits me
I'll never
Be free
Of this curse
And a chemical
Release
Is denied me
The strongest
Toxins
Cannot free
Me
I'll never sleep
Again
I'm trapped
Here
In the infinity
Of night
No dreams
No reflection
No purpose
As time has all
But
Frozen
To torment me
Night after night after night after night
As pale summer dark
And insensitive
Singing
Birds
Belie the true depth
Of the
Hour
And it's so hard
So cruel
And I begin to wonder
If I will ever see
The beauty of
Dreaming
Again
Form:
JUST FOR TONIGHT,
SHUT THE WORLD OUT,
SHUT OUT ALL YOUR PROBLEMS
AND SET YOUR HEARTS’ EMOTIONS FREE
FOR TONIGHT IS YOUR NIGHT TO
ENJOY, AND TO BE YOURSELF
YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN
TO YOUR PROBLEMS, OR YOUR HEARTS’ EMOTIONS
BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN TAKEN CARE OF
ENJOU THE BRIGHT FULL MOON
THAT’S SHINING ON YOUR
BEAUTIFUL FACE AND COUNT THE
STARS WITH ME – ONE BY ONE
SEE THEM DANSING ALONG YOUR
SWEET KIND MELODY OF FAITH AND HOPE
LET THE QUIET NIGHT EMBRACE YOUR
KINDNESS SO THAT YOU MAY HAVE
AN OPPORTUNITY TO FEEL SAVE AND ECCEPTABLE
BUT KEEP UP WITH TIME
BECAUSE IF YOU DON’T, YOUR PROBLEMS WILL,
AND YOUR HEART WILL THEN BE SHATTERED
INTO A MILLION PIECES OF NEVER ENDING PAIN
Form:
Well I've had a sleepless night or two
My baby's gone what am I gonna do?
Just a poor mans' son and plain to see
But my lord he looked good to me
Dark-sided moon got ahold of him
Took him for a midnight swim
Took his love and it took his life
Cut him from me like a cold steel knife
The Shenendoah waters,they roll so cold
And the sun burns down like a gamblers' gold
But the demon depths never made a sound
The night they took my baby down
Shenendoah River's beautiful to see
But the heartless river took him from me
Now my baby's gone what am I gonna do?
Shenendoah cut my heart in two