Get Your Premium Membership

Nightjar Poems - Poems about Nightjar

Nightjar Poems - Examples of all types of poems about nightjar to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for nightjar.
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 ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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 ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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, ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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! ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: nightjar, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Indigenous Forest
...Indigenous forest so awash with trees. Leaves strum a tune in the cool Autumn breeze. Rustling rowans and galloping ash. A rustic blanket for a well trodden path. Plum tinged foliage,fleet of f......Read the rest...
Categories: nightjar, natureautumn,
Form: Rhyme

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things