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Nightjar Poems - Poems about Nightjar

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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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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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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Categories: nightjar, beautiful, beauty, god, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Interrupted Rendezvous
...romantic stargazing ends with a smooch nightjar rattles approval watching crescent moon, charmed Date written: 09/25/2021......

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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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Categories: nightjar, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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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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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Categories: nightjar, fantasy, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: nightjar, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: nightjar, animal, bird, sound,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member 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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Categories: nightjar, dark, fate, history, lost,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member '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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Categories: nightjar, night, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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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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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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Categories: nightjar, nature,
Form: Quatrain

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