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Good Lord Deliver Us
...silence resonates eerie gray glow of night sky nightjar* prays for moon *The fiery-necked nightjar has a distinctive call that many have rendered as 'good-lord-deliver-us'.......
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thriveni c mysore
Categories:
nightjar,
bird,
Form:
Haiku
The Nightjars
...As dusk hours darken the skies ever later Crepuscular creatures return Strisores awaken the heathland As the heat of the day still rises from the earth. Quietness blankets the world in black ......
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Emma Goodridge-Hobson
Categories:
nightjar,
bird, england, night,
Form:
Free verse
The Star Jar
...Everywhere, I see myself these days, I see a smile attached to my face. My worries have started to disappear, I see the happiness on my plate. The memory of you is stuck in my head, the scen......
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Praful Rao
Categories:
nightjar,
beautiful, beauty, god, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
Interrupted Rendezvous
...romantic stargazing ends with a smooch nightjar rattles approval watching crescent moon, charmed Date written: 09/25/2021......
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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
nightjar,
bird, encouraging, moon, night,
Form:
Kimo
Markov Chain Reactions
...It’s 5pm and sunny in Ohio, 40 degrees and dropping, by dusk it will be grey turning to red then black. Where is the oyster shell now? The heavenly picture of a pale s......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
nightjar,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Sleep Easy
...The ripple in the calm stream The cold air in the sun The nightjar or the owl scream The silence you begun The creaking door in the night Soft footsteps in the dark The movement of something ......
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A Yorkshire Poet
Categories:
nightjar,
absence, dream, for her,
Form:
Free verse
The Mermaid
...The bog cotton hisses in concert with the curlews bubbling wail. The salt air stirs the marram grass, the sand sedge and sea kale. Alone she walks in beauty 'neath the dappled harvest moon. Her ni......
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John Jones
Categories:
nightjar,
fantasy, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am Not Chuck-Wills-Widow
...I Am Not Chuck-Will’s-Widow Part I: Bullies, Lodging and Treats Whip-Poor-Will at twilight — Tremendous skyline. My wings ~ vainglorious, li......
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Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
nightjar,
bird,
Form:
Personification
Still, For the Sake of a Whippoorwill
...In the dappled hour between day and twilight, surged the call of a Nightjar in flight, a Whippoorwill sang at will, ......
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Jenna Logan
Categories:
nightjar,
bird,
Form:
Rhyme
Nightjar
...The unmistakable nightjar Rattling dusk's lullaby What a strange sleep seduction... It's just 8 PM! Date written and posted: 10/20/2018......
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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
nightjar,
animal, bird, sound,
Form:
Dodoitsu
Dark River
...Dark river The still Lost stories The will Nightjar or skylark The water doesn’t care Moonshine or sunlight Don’t you dare Questions for the waters? Too many words unspoken Too many s......
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A Yorkshire Poet
Categories:
nightjar,
dark, fate, history, lost,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
'Tis Nineseventeenpm
...'Tis nineseventeenPM! On the balcony, in a rocking chair In full twilight surrender Savoring this wonderous time capsule This moment of captivating tranqui......
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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
nightjar,
night, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Whippoorwill
...In the dark of night the whippoorwill cries As it flitters beneath the night’s blue sky Master of camouflage. Heard, seldom seen Is searching for woodland insects to glean Whip-poor-will! ......
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Valerie Staton
Categories:
nightjar,
bird, insect, light, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
Auburn
...It is thy wanton gestures that contrive inside long auburn curls - Wherefore to diminish the pleas of a warm, lustful breeze! For though gilded rays shall grace all thy sunlit days Tis Moonstru......
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©
John Fleming
Categories:
nightjar,
love, mythology,
Form:
Rhyme
Rainbow
...Whispers of mist lie deathly white, shifting in the early morning light; the nightjar pipes his haunting tune, soon to rue the waning of the moon. The sun shines brightly now, and rain showers scatt......
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Keith Bickerstaffe
Categories:
nightjar,
nature,
Form:
Quatrain
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