Nighttide Poems | Examples

Night Out at the Carnival

Neon lights twinkle against the velvet, dark skies,
Ferris wheel spins like a huge ring of fireflies;
Shadows sway in the pavement, tents, booths, and crowds, 
As bright bulbs bring glare to cotton candy clouds .

Iron tunes from colorful carousel
Equalize clanking ride near the dinging bell;
Laughter listens to chatter screams in delight,
As hush whispers before the ride drops from height.

Sweet smell of chocolate, popcorn, and browned dough
Blends with oil from ride's engine in hot wind's blow;
Jumbo burger melts on the tongue bathed by Coke,
While the air is mixed with words of grease and smoke.

Young ones in a dreamlike world within nighttide
Savor the spot where pain pauses and woes hide.

When Nighttime Sings a Villanelle

I sing the gentle villanelle,
A villenesque so slightly said,
Howbeit the nighttide casts her spell.

And now the rune I know so well
Remains, remembered, in my head;
I sing the gentle villanelle.

As evening leaves and shadows dwell
The golden brightness all but fled,
Howbeit the nighttide casts her spell.

The flowing verse, her tale to tell,
Inhibitions adrift and shed,
I sing the gentle villanelle.

And owls resound about the fell,
The day replaced with night's instead,
Howbeit the nighttide casts her spell.

Yet me, contented, in my shell
Warmly, snugged and safe a-bed;
I sing the gentle villanelle
Howbeit the nighttide casts her spell.

One Grain Unseen

I stand as if one grain of sand among billions unseen
as the force of life's storms wash over me
with the same tantamount as this ocean
lashing out against the shore
battered, bloodied, ever changing
yet breathing with the same rhythm
as these waves coming in and out

I watch the horizon bleed
at nighttide as it swallows the sun whole
watching inquisitively at the beauty
with the same curiosity as a child's eyes
peering out for the first time
never questioning the grandeur
as the moon emerges
from the same depths
as the sinking sun

i wish upon a shooting star
clasp my hands on bended knee 
then pray as this salty spray reaches my lips
yet i cavil his existence in sorrow
as i kiss the lips of death

03/08/2020

Ode To the Hourglass

Ode To The Hourglass
E'er spent in the margin of its clutch of us,
We breathe its granules in nighttide befallen,
Wanderers adrift campaign design to thus,
Daytime withdrawal of star hole we crawl in,
Be of that horizon art great plentitude,
A minuscule scope be a grand solitude,
The vast separateness, still, purposed value,
Withal, dissolve in its depths, I and shall you,

Sands prey unto gravitational split palm,
smattering contributions from character,
exfoliates abruptly the sedate calm,
genteel indiscernible that surrender,
the retired bit is given in chambered rest,
that visualness measuring of time's quest,
allowing the said duties of weightiness,
do the essential action of sublimeness.

2020 March 02

Howmanysyllables;
16 lines x 11 syllables per = 176 syllables total

In the Fades of Night

in the fades of crimson
ivory shadows dance
upon the hills
in windswept motions
beneath the haloed moon

my thoughts aglow
in the allure
that nighttide
often brings

a song
on the strings
of hearts
drifts aimlessly
in echoes
through the folds
of darkness
towards dreams
as eyes close
to gain sight

in the distance
i see you
standing
alone
hands out
reaching
but never
touching
before 
eyes open
and you fade
with night
in the breaks
of day

Broken Melody

it's the midnight hour
as i watch the rise and fall
of your breath blend
in peerless harmony
within the cicada's song

i twirl along
in secluded mind
where thoughts fall
faded like shadows
beneath moon's lambent light

remembrance comes
in winded breaths
as i recall
the camber of your body
pressed against mine
in the soft melodies 
of nighttide 

the endless tempo
with bated breaths
in stepless dances
between young lovers

the smile
with the glow
of a thousand stars
gleaming back
in brilliance
now paling
in fragmented
flickers 
of clouded mind

the chirr of bed
as you shift
closer to the edge
leaves me wondering
is this love enough
to keep me grounded
in the distance
laid between us

Monotone Skies

this monotone sky
is less full than i
this moonless night

lonesome is the star
that flickers
in the weave of clouds
obscured of darkness

i stand shapeless
in the absence of light
where shadows recede
hidden like thoughts
forbidden

i search
through the fog
of clouded mind
trying to find 
the lucent glow
of your soul
to usher me
through this obscurity
of nighttide

Montana

Montana skies 
at nighttide
drips with stars
trailed by crimson showers
beneath the clouded hue
of the milky way

alabaster tips
of mountains
stand like shadows
almost touching
the backdrop of night
aglow in the blush
momentarily 

I stand
in the stillness
of my own actions
the same as them

casting shadows
like wishes
on the streamers
of falling stars
as they fade
in the distance

I feel
the expansion
of my own dreams
dissipate within the air
of night's veiled breath
as I sigh
at the beauty
contained within
Montana's skies

Mom's Birthday

Mom's photo album (in the attic, somewhere?)
Ah! Found it by an overdue book (from a library, somewhere?)
There's mom with a Mountie (in Canada, somewhere?)
Mom by a natural spring (in Maine, somewhere?)
Mom in the kitchen (at Aunt's, somewhere?)
Mom is saluted, holds a folded flag (Vietnam memorial, somewhere?)
Mom at the church (outside, somewhere?)
Mom playing the church piano (inside, somewhere?)
Mom waves her hands by a sea (in Israel, somewhere?)
Mom eating souvlaki (in Greece, somewhere?)
Mom on a double-decker bus (in London, somewhere?)
Mom and the grandkids (in Honolulu, somewhere?)
I know there's more of mom's albums (in the house, somewhere?)

I'll finish this cake, whilst looking at pictures, until the nighttide bears, for this day is her birthday, and I know that she's with dad and they both are smiling, --from somewhere in Heaven, up there.

Star of David

*Image of Star of David by ClipArt.

Star of David

Ah!
These
stars, for
they all seem
to wedge the whole
nighttide tract of our perpetual sphere's vaulted ceiling, that
lingers on their ambiguous tethered strings, consumed
by a grand dark expanse beyond where imagination
lays their vast secrets, and inspirations dares a
peek, while aspirant souls ventures a quest to
scope a noble claim, and bestowed a fame but,
beware for a twinkle will cause one to blink, for 'twas
an alternate reality, one that is earthbound perchance be a
different sort of star
'twas saved, dates 
from past, a gift
be his name
David,
EL


2019 May 10
*1st Place*
A Brian Strand Visual
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 March 01

So, You Wanna Rock Joey Cock

Well, then hit me with your best shot ?
Truth is we're just a breath away from this
Your gray grim day, part two: summon the kings
Tis urgent hurry please bring me my ancient armour
That their pagans can pray as consecrate an age's final fate
Elijah, crossing time beckoning fire and flames paving, Love's day....
Stand tall go proud, Freddie Kruger: You see all this glory it's, kingdoms: Remember,
                                                                                             ....Dreamscape's, nighttide nightmare.

If Your Going To, San Francisco

Thinking of Whitney Houston for some reason ?
Her beautiful voice like flowers in your hair rising....
Acappella and such a strange vibration; people in motion
Spirits, love's potion ? Nay these altars nor volcanos; sacrificial
Blades their children ghostly gods they chant; pin stripped podiums
Cauldrons a watchful brew poison ivy garments beating drums nighttide
Jungles sand dune dreams his Amazon sleeps, tonight ? Don't walk away she sings..
Gossamer wings the golden gate, and I don't want to cry anymore ? A kiss for love We, smile.

On the Horizon

Sunset painting velvety sky at nighttide
tones of red clouds shimmering above mountains
trace the downward spiral of wafting sunset 
replaced with darkness
 












Sandra Adams
09/24/2013

The Dance

as nighttide settles
like calm seas
her backdrop
becomes your stage

old thoughts
sneak
like shadows
against mind's walls

i spin beneath
demonic haunts
as your words
fall
rage-red
winded fury
on burial grounds
already full
of little deaths

i gasp
through short breaths
and utter your name
as etched
on each stone

soaked
with morning
i rise
and remember
this dance

Nighttide Seductions

Waking up wet her loveliness lingering...
In pools of perfume gathering as, trickling
Her tongue tasting; thick, deep inside my lips.

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