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Nightlong Poems - Poems about Nightlong

Premium Member Breath
... The last whispery remains of a dream fray into forgetfulness. I get up and go downstairs to quietly sit in a chair beside the window and stare into the outside dark. A few stars hang suspend......

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Categories: nightlong, dark, joy, morning,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations XIV
...Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used i......

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Categories: nightlong, dream, father, girl, god,
Form: Free verse



Sappho Translations V
...Sappho Translations V by Michael R. Burch Sappho, fragment 23 translation by Michael R. Burch I long helplessly for love. Gazing into your eyes not even Hermione compares. Who is your equa......

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Categories: nightlong, beautiful, children, flower, longing,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations III
...Sappho Translations III by Michael R. Burch Bed the bride with the beautiful feet, or bring her to me! —Sappho, fragment 103b, translation by Michael R. Burch I long helplessly for love. Ga......

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Categories: nightlong, beautiful, beauty, desire, earth,
Form: Free verse
The dawn when dawns
... Drowsy dreams when wake up with life, Dawn breaks to light from nightlong dark, Birds sing when to welcome first spark, Skies turn when from grey to red-rife, On trees when I see tender lea......

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Categories: nightlong, dream, hope, morning,
Form: Sonnet



Haikus on humour - I
...Where is mystery On how Moses makes his tea? We know, Hebrews it. It won’t surprise me If a cartoonist’s found dead And clues are sketchy. I catch it the least That gossamer lovely beast,......

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Categories: nightlong, humor,
Form: Haiku
It Was Just Dark Before Dawn
...I see no more dancing, I hear no more songs, The neighbors are now quiet and the lights are all gone. There are no soul in the streets, no sound nightlong, Now that dullness begins to set ......

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Categories: nightlong, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Park Fountain
...I have walked about as far as I can go before a weariness threatens to withdraw the pleasure of the evening light and the easy mood of the park. The fountain that had spurted and splashed ......

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Categories: nightlong, light, moon, night, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Secret Love, Two Searching Eyes
...*Secret love, two searching eyes* I The early morning's languorous mild sun Seemed jaded from a nightlong tiring jog, And liked dawn's dew-mixed mirth nor glee of smog, Nor some stray passin......

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Categories: nightlong, childhood, feelings, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Little Fire
...Crossing the arms nearby The little fire of your smile Shivering in the winter gray Wintry wind moves away Your little fire of affection Lights new cordial connection Warms me in cool nightl......

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Categories: nightlong, fire, light, love, true
Form: Rhyme
The Dawn When Dawns
...Stars twinkling steadily The night must have passed peacefully, Keen, hoping to meet her ally… Bright silver of the waxing moon In nightlong warm darkness of June, Must have hurried up to reac......

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Categories: nightlong, life,
Form: Terza Rima
The Closed Door As Calls
...Just as my sleep is going deep, The nightlong foe, my closed door calls. Derailing my dream state of sleep, Upsetting it, the closed door calls. Like cicadas’ continuous clip, I wonder w......

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Categories: nightlong, heartbroken,
Form: Ghazal
At Night When I Am With Me
...The time descends when night to be, In close touch, communion with me, It holds mirror to me to see, To look into the day so spent, To scan the truth of each moment, It’s time to seek adverse......

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Categories: nightlong, mirror, silence,
Form: Terza Rima
Innocent
...Short black pants with straggling hair Holding a glass of beer Laugh loudly, wrist with grasping Squiring and dancing nightlong Acid house echoed all over White shirt foxed a red lips mark......

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Categories: nightlong, dark, depression, desire, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Sun Seems To Say
...The rising sun seems to tell me: What you saw so far was a dream, Ended has now the night nigh grim, Do thou red band of spectrum see, The nightlong dream was just your past, Go with the spell o......

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Categories: nightlong, joy, sun,
Form: Free verse

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