Nature Night Poems

I inhabit a realm where contradiction and paradox intertwine, as intimately as vines warmed by Cleopatra's lips. By my very nature, I exist in a...

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Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku

Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.

Because morning glories
held my...

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I watch the yellow moon on a colourless night 
Sounds of cricket breaking the hum of silence
Distant footsteps echo through the streets
It is a labyrinth...

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Thrillers, fillers, spillers line the garden wall!
Artful, appealing, alluring thrall!
In morning, at noon, or night,
pinks and purples, bright!
Stupendous
sight!
Tremendous
beauty at its height!
Magnificence to delight!
Promenading Nature's sexy...

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I love the end of the day,
when the sun wants to climb into bed.
The moon will be rising soon,
showing off it's big bright face.

 

The...

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Silent stars speak through rays of light
Listen to them every night
Perched up in heaven out they stare
Life may well exist everywhere

Silent statues who pray from...

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and I wandered under the stars
the balmy taste of wind on my lips
a whimsy of love in the air
just a few notes unrecognizable
tickling the nape...

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Life with it's ups and down's
I love you day and night
Family and friends make
Every moment extra special...

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asleep in a bloom
on the lake of pearl moonbeams
water lily dreams

green frog in black night
drifting in rock-a-bye dark
where stars make their mark

moonlight tiptoes soft
on cool...

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I worry that my coat will murder me.
Hanging on Banister’s Edge it’s a man lurking, dark.

I’ve seen rows of killers shadowed and waiting,
hidden in the...

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who then rings
thy solitary bell
whose voice cuts through
the mist

and lowly darkness
winter’s eve
there far off 
screaming fox

when unseen eyes
then look upon
from trees that hide
in cloak

and footsteps
cast...

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Imagine, if you will, orbs of light
superimposed on ebony space.
Two portals, found at the edge of night,
where dreams and reality embrace.

Sharing shades of a violet...

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As the evening grew colder,
The skies became darker
As flashes of lightning and peals of thunder
Awoke the sleeping man.
As he stared around in wonder,
The once noisy...

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Fragrance night, spicy
Breeze tangoes near tomorrow
to green world stage raves
Howling blues stir lilac dark
Starlight, whistling in the park

Clouds keep on drifting
in times of vanishing moon
It's...

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By Poet: "A blue carpet as far as we can see. My child I call it an Ocean."

I could not stay,
just needed to run away.
Being...

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