Nightdress Poems - Poems about Nightdress

A Personal Touch Valentine

...A Candy Storefront window, a passerby pauses briefly at the array of heart-shaped enwrapped in velvet reds, filled with sweet treats like years before. The same tricks deployed as the byway take poin...

Sappho Translations XI

...Sappho Translations XI by Michael R. Burch


Sappho, fragment 92
translation by Michael R. Burch

“Sappho, if you don’t leave your room,
I swear I’ll never love you again!
Get out of bed, ris...

When The Night Has Come

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When night has come like a thief in the night 
blowing winds of fierce by a blinding light 
When the moon's nightdress is a billowed glance   
in the same dark sky where the stars have dance...

One million apologies later

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When we first met,
you adored me,
from sunrise to sunset.
We would stay up all night,
infatuated like lovebirds

and I'm still wondering.... What went wrong.
When did you run out of things...

Midnight and the Poetess

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            In the pitch black darkness of the night,
            Not one idea, no, not even one in sight.
            And who am I then, out to impress?
            Such cold, needless and...

How Do I Hold the Wind

...On the edge of silence 
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit on the move
from west to east a bridge of...

How Do Children Sleep At Night

...It's a wonder young children still turn out all right
With the stuff that gets crammed in their heads every night.
Things like visions of sugar plum fairies and sprites,
Or a thousand tales of Ara...

Murder Ballad: the River Witch

...I rose from my bed in the darkness
and escaped to the river in the dead of night.
Clad in only my thin fragile nightdress,
Much to my young lover's delight.

My lover was bound by his honor,
Th...

Summer Love

...If only I could gorge in your lavender scent,
Or fondly nestle in your warm, loving embrace.
Understand that “I love you” is really meant
Let me gaze and wonder the beauty of your face.

A wan m...

Closely Observing

...Stood in a nightdress shivering and cold
Feeling unwell fearful and old
Window ajar net curtains blowing
Windy outside whistling and howling

Conifer to pear trees standing tall
Weather so drea...

Thank You-Rainbow Poets

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A rainbow of hope, in my hand I do hold.
That paints the room in prism colors, in God's hues, 
so humble yet bold.


Your heart that appreciates me, enables me to write.
Positive comm...

The Tale of Betty Vautour

...This is the tale of Betty Vautour 
Who took on a lover at age forty-four. 
Stormed out of the house 
With soft-spoken curse, 
In nightdress and slippers, 
Cosmetics and purse. 

What was she t...

Impure Thoughts

...On her nightdress candlelight flickers
While underneath she wears blue knickers
Grandpa recalls Kentucky
The last time he got lucky
Grandma just rolls her eyes and snickers



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What Happens In the Past, Stays In the Mind

...What happens in the past, stays in the mind. 

Sitting on the floor,  pen in hand, a wealth of books surround me, comfortable in my familiarity. 
Studying was my sole mission; achieving only excel...

Tree

...She walks in the green fields in Wales
with a basket in her hands
She is picking jasmines flowers
and singing her favorite song as loud as she can

and under a big cherry tree
She sits down whe...

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