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Nighthawk Poems - Poems about Nighthawk

Premium Member Snow Falling, Swirling
... (My inspiration is number 3, the Snowman winter scene.) I love snow falling, watching it blow and swirl in drifts, like a dance- snowflakes prance......

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Categories: nighthawk, nostalgia, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Nighthawk
...A sliver of October moon sinks slow into the western night and the life of a billion stars begin to fade beyond my sight The black curtain of night dissolves as colors flare the eastern sky T......

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Categories: nighthawk, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Wee Hours
...It's the wee hours of the morning, And the rain is drizzling down. It makes the air all fresh and clean, As I walk the streets of town. Although July is ending, It's damp and cold tonight, An......

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Categories: nighthawk, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Nighthawks
...Inspired by the painting 'Nighthawks' by Edward Hopper The air changes when the majority sleep As does the energy out in the street Aura's of wakeful others draw you near Pondering their charac......

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Categories: nighthawk, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Soothing Stress
...With the chalk, Teachers' hearts knock Students flock; Goats, we overstock And sheep, we unlock! With our talks, Teachers' mouths stalk Lazy students' works, Discipline the ones that ba......

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Categories: nighthawk, appreciation, art, care, dedication,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Night Magic
...They say when the moon rides high and bright, And casts it's silver glow, On fields and meadows, woods and streams, And village streets below, It's good advice to stay inside, Not venture far ......

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Categories: nighthawk, night,
Form: Quatrain
-nighthawk:
...The nighthawk that's afraid of the dark Stays up to protect his heart With a mind wired by the creative That won’t cease until he finishes his piece He draws to put himself at ease To give h......

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Categories: nighthawk, art, fear, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Old Nails
...OLD NAILS Quazi Johirul Islam I have been trying to remove old nails From my feet, from my palms, for many years Jordan full to the brim of my pure tears Pain spread all over with the great de......

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Categories: nighthawk, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Yellow
...Yellow leaps, flipping, dashes wild, Then spins and flits. Plays twister and racket ball. Yellow is camping late August. Feels like pudding skin. Smells Gray Poupon and makes me grin. Dyi......

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Categories: nighthawk, color,
Form: Free verse
Old Crow
...Old Crow Old crow Tired and lazy' against the day Dark skies Lost in blacks and whites and grays Howling north wind Sure takes a man's fight away Wastelands, A dreamer's home on his best ......

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Categories: nighthawk, anxiety,
Form: Cinquain
Nocturnal
...notice the natural nocturnal of the night- never has the naked nighthawk nested as neat- neglected by dark, he ......

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Categories: nighthawk, night,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Sacred Totum
...Hear the screeching of the Nighthawk, as its talons grapple At the tail ends of the moon's rising, dragging it ever upwards, unto The center of the blackened shroud, of the universe. This celestia......

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Categories: nighthawk, culture, fantasy, halloween, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Maiden and the Hunter
...Upon the jagged rock, Where cloven hooves did trot. A maiden clothed in dock, Thought life was meant for naught. Adorned in nature's frock, Awaiting wind's onslaught. Ticktock, ticktock, the ......

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Categories: nighthawk, hope
Form: Ballad
" Fer Those Pickers "
...'Twas a cold cold day o'tune, Fer those pickers down in Boone. Fiddles brought so had they'd ought, Newest feathers just store bought, 'Twas a cold cold day a'tune. Fer those pickers down in B......

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Categories: nighthawk, adventureday, day,
Form: Rhyme
Hawk Eyed
...The nighthawk sails tonight; Encompassing a silent world Caught is, his prey in the wink of an eye Spinning and diving in swirls Across the midnight skies While he holds court with the fancied......

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Categories: nighthawk, on writing and words
Form: Verse

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