Best Whippoorwill Poems

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How sweet is the southern beauty of a country rose blossom today.
Soft scents that float gently on the breeze through trees that sway.

With bare feet...

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Like open arms
These broken gates reach out to me
And lead me to the lonely house
That overlooks the sea

Her door once proud and stately
Now splintered hangs...

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Mother nature’s songs I cannot exceed 
Of the Whippoorwill out in open field
They partake of mother’s bliss free of greed
Birds and their songs give of...

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In Tune With Nature

Amidst flowers, butterflies and bees,
enjoy sitting under the trees

The breeze blows gently whistling all the way,
leaves shiver softly in tune 
with birds...

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Sang like a whippoorwill, up high on a hill
   Played trumpet like Satchmo, with panache and skill
To watch that man tap-dance, gave even...

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The beauty of a galaxy 
Is heavenly
A tapestry of dreams in speckled light
Beneath a lilac tree
You made love to me
More tenderly than truly at first...

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I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and...

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Listen to the whispering's of the unhushed winds gently echoing,
Ever so softly swaying, as through a tender exhaled breath of warmth,
Delicately reawakening mother earth from...

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whippoorwill
trills a
song

larks
in trees
sing along

croaking frogs
join the
throng

then
crickets
chirp with ease

symphony
on the
breeze

Sept. 27. 2018 
for the Haiku 1-2-3 Or 3-2-1 Poetry Contest of charles messina...

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To rise upon the breaking of the dawn
And watch as darkness turns into the light
Where silence lingers like a haunting song
Until the geese upon the...

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Joy comes in the morning
The birds await to sing their hymns
After being lonesome in darkness
The whippoorwill has brought 
Them comfort and hope singing
In the stillness...

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Love is like a warm wooly hat
On a cold and blustery day
A raincoat shielding from a driving rain
A cup of cafe au lait

The morning sun...

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Purple hues beam softly through edge of night
casting shadows between mystical light
forests spy slivers of moonbeams below 
dreaming of rainbows as night owls hoot low....

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As birds do in the serenity and majesty of sunset skies,
Some lose their inherent passion to roam.
So, we danced amid candlelight and the fireflies;
We did...

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No need for a special day
To remind us of our love 
Always in our consciousness
A treasure from above

Just like welcome sunshine
After a summer rain
Rainbows of...

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