Short After Midnight Poems

The house is quiet after midnight.
My mind is not....

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meet me
under moonlight
minutes after midnight
meld with me...

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dead balloons after midnight
a dirty poison
of remarkable chaos...

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Have some dim sum friend,
Sip sake after midnight,
The gold of Asia....

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  The ghoul lathered a cadaver ~

    with a dagger, the cops gathered

...

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Still awake after midnight
Time for thoughts and reflections
Excavating  memories...

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a new day has dawned
leaving shadows behind them —
pink daughter brings mirth

9/3/2019...

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flowers in the mist
moon shines down after midnight
causes fog to glow

Russell Sivey...

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the day is done
time to dim the lights
and focus on my heart



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on September 6, 2022...

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Strokes after midnight
received a distant sad news
a swallow has flown

Watch over us dear
I kept my prayers for you
frosted in flowers...

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Scores of white lilies bloom - slicing night air
with a deadly perfume.
Nostrils flicker and consume
scented ghosts haunting the room....

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After midnight
the pendulum stalls
Chimes to deaden 
as darkness calls
A clanking chain
the haunt begins 
Till daylight threatens
—the shadows dim

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

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M-orn 
A-nd 
R-ays 
J-ust 
O-bliterate 
R-ain 
I-n 
E-arliness 

J-oining 
R-adiance 
A-fter 
M-idnight 

Topic: Birthday of Marjorie Jram (November 13) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Crackers in sky form sparkles, loud
As firework forms a fog of smoke
Houses gleam, with ribbons of light
Grandmothers chant prayers in temples
Endless firecrackers outside, even after midnight...

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M-ist
E-vades
L-ight
A-nd
N-ewness
I-n
E-arly

R-ays
A-fter
M-idnight
I-f
R-adiance
E-xpects
Z-enith

Topic: Birthday of Melanie R. Ramirez (November 10)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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It came after midnight as bells rang,
most people were asleep as buildings swayed,
light poles fell down empty lanes,
cars and buses crashed into trains, 
smoke rose from gas lines as they exploded....

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SINS AFTER MIDNIGHT

dig deeper dagger
whilst i hold the golden stake
crowd shuffles nervously
cautiously applauding
sins whispered in the dark

Kim Rodrigues ©Feb 2017

Oscar madness causes me to write!...

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long after midnight

he points out the big dipper...

grass for our pillows






___________________________________________
for Charles Henderson's Contest: "No Contest Contest"
/resubmitted for PD's Contest "Any haiku will do"...

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J-anuary first after midnight
A-ims to brighten the blue; 
Y-our birthday has come, 
A-s well as the year that's
N-ew.

A-llow Saturday to pass, 
N-ever let it stay; 
N-either dusk nor twilight shall stop the joy on Sunday....

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You're a song that my heart keeps singing
Mostly after midnight when only the loneliest of birds still call
I'm answered in the whisper of night air
and a choir of crickets
While I sit murmuring softly to myself on the front steps...

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House Pest

 

stomping around

mightily after midnight,

 

claiming this dwelling

and looking for something of delight...

 

unless someone ignites a light

then they're all fleeing in sheer fright

 

5-31-09...

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She trusted this source

He hated her even more

playing games, calling of names

enough already

she lifts her spirits

she gathers her thoughts

another journey fought

another life, a newer view

as he vanishes after midnight....

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Here we are on that lonesome road...
Crossing the same old paths once more
Why're you out here walkin' after midnight?
Just my luck ... with fewer lives left than before 








3/27/2022

Black Cat contest

(forms - personification / LIND30WR)...

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When death sent out its calling card 
the heavens came in view
Psalms to reach the Angel’s ears
one voice had broken through
Grace within her every word
each feeling soul infused
Patsy singing from above
—to bless the chosen few

(Remembering Patsy Cline: May, 2022)...

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after midnight
on the edge,
dawn so far away:

in my dream
platitudes
cravings
concerns
             of the day
             hold sway:
clarity
of images
as vivid
             as day
yet
impasse
           hold sway
and...
         time...
appears
         to stand
still...

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