Night Watch Poems - Poems about Night Watch

The light travelling from a long-gone sun, hits your face and mine. The time stretched so thin that it is vapor around us. Our hands touch and all of physics dissolves....

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Dark trees on the dark street stand still: duty bound mute guards between heaven’s stars and solid earth, locked, secret, with no voice to me as we walk on the black road, not talking. ...

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Miles past the nightstand over the plastic water bottle. the Ambien pill dispenser and the soul-bruised eye shades, an arrhythmic clock ticks like a bombed-out tank. Of course there is the lampshade (that lighthouse for the luminescent krill of submerged consciousness) that seems attached to my skin whenever body parts want to cut ties with a mattresses concave reality. Secreted like a drugged shark in the shallow...

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A man in a black overcoat walks into the night. Under a street light a circle of autumn leaves shed their waning colors, hues that reach just a little beyond that electric ring of light. The man pauses to light a cigarette one hand cupping the flame from his lighter. He moves on into the black night where everything, even fallen...

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Since the year fourteen five, In a little Swiss town,* There’s a job that will earn All who do it renown. From the top of the church (A cathedral, no less) Someone calls out the time In a formal address. Once an hour, this guard, Called a “night watch” will yell Just as soon as the sound Fades away from the bell. With a lantern held high He...

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search for oddities into space and time we squeeze eons can be seen through highly polished mirrors on bitter cold night so clear 'The Accident' morphs dim mysterious brown dwarf skimming stellar turf leaving possibilities constitutes dark energies lustrous Milky Way is where we reside today facing come what may dusty gas, huge black holes hide where galactic center glides interstellar bliss where supernovas exist fireworks not to miss proves the cosmos...

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The wandering moon Waxes, wanes, illuminates ...

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Five little furry feathered swans Paddle on the lake in a curved line Out along a rugged rocky island Following shadows of a black pen Danger will come with fading light So mother guides her team home Knowing that preying eyes watch As stillness spreads, she feels alone...

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Go Through hither observing Sublime sky’s with tiny dots Large round bright light Dark as a burnt coal night Mist wandering and drifting Water lapping over rocks Crystals gather tightly together Moving between toes Castles built destroyed by waves Heads sticking out of the sand Dogs chasing round cycles Suits that bare it all all Two feet walking holding hands Tall light spinning around Sun sinking from sight at...

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beady eyes...darting here and there... angst-reflectors unpaid prairie guard...

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K-eep your eyes aglow, G-azing at the twinkling stars, E-ven at the moon. Form: Acrostic Haiku...

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The beauty of the intention The intention of the beauty howls the moon Night vision capture understanding love fine nights of glory To view the angle that is suggest all eyes For the wont of the pleasure the cooling of flesh what is of man Cooler the weather tanning it of the mirror is frost or nearly weather what cold Dutch...

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I looked out across this vast prairie, an'...

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I heard you in the night watch and You said to me, "My redeemed and precious one what is it you see ?" I remember how you said that You died for me, how in Your Word I've read, Your death makes me free. "My son, do you believe this, that from death I rose ? Yet this truth so many miss- in their lives it...

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The cresting sea set beneath the glowing moon Gave way to many who set there to swoon Reflective waters warm up this June The night is set for love The grainy sand is the bed on which they will lie Their blanket remains the moon adorned sky The surf is the sound to drown away cries As they gaze at the beauty...

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