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Nighttimes Poems - Poems about Nighttimes

A perfect triangle pretending to be right
... A perfect triangle As he stood in the shadow Of the dead eye windows of his home His face alway up Stars or cries of cloud his theatre The sounds that based from his neon lit blue ears He ......

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Categories: nighttimes, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lazy Snooze Alarm
...The sun looked tired this morning Yawning stretched shadows over silent birds Teasing nighttimes sleeping flowers As its lazy snooze alarm hummed idly ©9/11/2023......

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Categories: nighttimes, morning,
Form: Free verse



A Torrent of Rain Flatters
...The ghosts of fear are nesting glaring clouds that are driven A procession of baying donkeys The ponds reflection loudly decries as gulls shriek for attention Nighttimes plumage banishes bluis......

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Categories: nighttimes, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost In the Snow
...Let me tell you a story, a story of woe: a tale of a pup who got lost in the snow. Daughter Laura, our eldest, came up to see us, drove home in a Jeep (to rhyme, insert Prius). She and her niece,......

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Categories: nighttimes, dog,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Duality of Day and Night
...Daylight with, its gifts so bright, brings clarity to my mind. Nights darkened caress, with moonlit breast, is a catalyst igniting dream-fires. Daylight sings of lovely thing......

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Categories: nighttimes, day, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tanka Feb 8
...chill breath of dawn lights upon my window-pane- nighttimes promises freeze into crystal NOTE:Essentially a tanka in English is a 3 line hiku(SHOW)& a 2 line couplet (TELL) comment......

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Categories: nighttimes, poetry, word play,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member We Could Become the Dawn
...We somehow mature; Our growing, but a symptom of our cure. We wash the dreariness from wi......

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Categories: nighttimes, children, dark, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Brick
...I do not hear the words, far too busy in my ears laying golden tracks of forceful movement They carry me away, away. always to away. Stretch horizon, many ones and zeros, far away. Starlit desti......

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Categories: nighttimes, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mother Nature's Crowded House
...Graceful flamingo flocks prance into spring, And trees budding green host hordes on a wing. In pine trees, squirrels scamper to sunshine, And dragonflies and blooms grace the tree line. Crick......

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Categories: nighttimes, animal, beautiful, bird, green,
Form: Couplet
State of the Art Iv
...State of the Art (IV) These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. Hearthside by Michael R. Burch “When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ......

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Categories: nighttimes, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Midnight Sun Belongs To Alaska
...The midnight sun belongs to Alaska where children play and parents lose all sense of time until fatigue reminds them it it is time for shut eye as they call it a night where dusk is is a golden ......

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Categories: nighttimes, moon, nature, repetition, sun,
Form: Prose Poetry
Vacuum
...Vacuum by Michael R. Burch Over hushed quadrants forever landlocked in snow, time’s senseless winds blow... leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed, if still mostly concealed... such are......

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Categories: nighttimes, education, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form: Free verse
In the Poetry Chat Room
...WHY SHULD I LERN TO SPELL? HELL, NO ONE REEDS WHAT I SAY ANYWAY!!! :( Sing for the cool night, whispers of constellations. Sing for the supple grass, the tall grass, gently whispering. ......

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Categories: nighttimes, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Compendium of Tanka
...on the wind a bell tolls memories surface words unerased- the image fades with a tremor of light- daybreak tinges the nigrescent sky grey- the horizon appears distinct in my mind's eye ......

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Categories: nighttimes, imagery, poetry,
Form: Tanka
Choosing Light
...Once more the dark succumbs to light as dawn reveals its power, again returning Mankind’s sight as all arise from darkness hour. This daily conquest of Earth’s veil revives the land at nightti......

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Categories: nighttimes, analogy, dark, day, light,
Form: Rhyme

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