Nightjars Poems - Poems about Nightjars

...Soon the forest would reveal its dark secret Poems are written. Music is composed. Ballets are staged. In enacting suspense-filled plays, each creature is engaged. Mysteries, like petals of blos......Read the rest...

...Under the hedgerow, nothing will fall apart, nor hold, until a first milky dribble is squeezed into the mewing mouths of the newborn. Small forms roll in their dim pelts, nightjars swoop from......Read the rest...

...The sky canvas seems glittery. Hiding a divine mystery The red moon’s rays glow like ruby, Sapphire stars shine so silvery. Swift's shadows sing the sun's send-off. Each shade shows nature's m......Read the rest...

...God in the gloaming, splits the violet horizon with lightning. An assembly of angels of every nation and tongue, they're lifting coffins of great numbers of war dead- both military and civilian......Read the rest...

...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...

...In the Appalachian hill country there are night birds; they call to each other in the dark yet hunt alone. These birds are not owls but nightjars, they are known also as whip-poor-wills, goat......Read the rest...

...What is happiness, I just wanted to know, Was it the song of heavy rain or the breezy snow? Was it a dance of colorful water fountain, Or was it a beautiful sunflower covering the whole mountain......Read the rest...

...Birdwoman wore eagle, robin, osprey and owl. In her hair, with a certain flair Hummingbirds, swifts and waterfowl Making their nest in her lovely hair Birdwoman sported pelicans, penguins and e......Read the rest...

...Above the Blue Ridge hills flights of stealth owl glide in from the moon. Strange how a jungle is never quiet but these Tennessee woods sleepwalk along moccasin paths watched over by the velv......Read the rest...

...Sentinel, through cloud cover, as a lover discovering each other, the moonbeam cuts the stillness of the secret night. Illuminating nightjars in flight and denizens of the dark embarking on the......Read the rest...

...When the moth is on the wing and only drunks and nightjars sing. In that cloistered, muggy, midsummer night when pipistrel and owl take flight. And the moon plays hide and seek with cloud and ......Read the rest...

...Night filters sight and sound into caves of awareness where owls and nightjars clatter, where timorous creatures forage and snuffle. The forest has gathered here for generations, it has its o......Read the rest...

...What's not to love? What's not to marvel at? At the mauve lilac dusk? At the smiling crescent moon? Moon glowing up above? M......Read the rest...

...sun-kissed briars droop summer blisters scar grey twigs cypress leaves ooze sweat nightjars scoop dry ice v ripples on rain starved ponds homing pigeon’s drought Date Created : 26/6/2020 Tw......Read the rest...

...I have a passion to hold a lamp aloft, to capture one acre of starshine before the sun writes a new dawn. Rusting Chevys bloom in the half-light. Nightjars depart on shadow wings. Shimmering’s......Read the rest...