Nightjars Poems - Poems about Nightjars

...The old sorcerer was teaching his apprentice a lesson about the moon, but as usual the subject drifted, this time, to witches. “How would I know a witch if I saw one?” The apprentice asked. “It’s ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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