Short Night Watch Poems

beady eyes...darting
here and there... angst-reflectors
       unpaid prairie guard...

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K-eep your eyes aglow, 
G-azing at the twinkling stars, 
E-ven at the moon. 


Form: Acrostic Haiku...

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The wandering moon
                                  Waxes, wanes, illuminates
                                      nodding to the stars...

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The heavens are black,
The moon’s in a sack,
The course of the day has been run.
The stars twinkle by
Far out in the sky,
Awaiting the rise of the sun....

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The heavens are black.
The moon’s in a sack.
The course of the day has been run.
The stars twinkle by,
Far out in the sky,
Awaiting the rise of the sun....

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The light
travelling from
a long-gone
sun,
hits your face
and mine.
The time
stretched so thin
that it is vapor
around us.
Our hands touch
and all of physics 
dissolves....

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Dark trees on the dark street stand still:
duty bound mute guards
between heaven’s stars and
solid earth,
locked, secret,
with no voice to me
as we walk on the black road,
not talking.
...

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the moon tails off
remnants log off
And wings  cool off
On the cloud lei 

Sleepy cats botch
Sitting on crotch
Divine night watch
Ascent of dei









(C) Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty...

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Five little furry feathered swans
Paddle on the lake in a curved line
Out along a rugged rocky island
Following shadows of a black pen
Danger will come with fading light
So mother guides her team home
Knowing that preying eyes watch
As stillness spreads, she feels alone...

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So innocent in Thy slumber,
The dreams and vigils of the day
gone by.

No furrow marks Thy brow.
No trace of teardrops
Glisten from your eyes.

Thou art so much like the flower
Eager for the silver dew...
Thy face is flushed
as dusk rests heavy on the breast,
And as I keep night watch
I love you....

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The cresting sea set beneath the glowing moon
Gave way to many who set there to swoon
Reflective waters warm up this June
The night is set for love

The grainy sand is the bed on which they will lie
Their blanket remains the moon adorned sky
The surf is the sound to drown away cries
As they gaze at the beauty above...

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Feral Fragments

Ghostly gloom, born of foreboding stillness,
Cut to smithereens - shattered shards of energy escape
From whirlwinds in feral fragments with serrated cutting edges -
Wary night watch warned of sirocco's spinning untamed spiral catastrophe.

From Fractured Fragments
9-7-21
Contest Liberum Divisa 7
Sponsor: Gregory Barden...

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ah the rockin rolling seat ,
dem bowlaigs sure hard to beat,
when ya poking them ol dogies ,
heading home and life is sweet,
when the cattle are a grazing ,
and the sun is setting low,
an the night watch is stargazing,
a sweeter life i do know,
back when life was walking slow,
but then complete...

thank you "Cowpoke Meyers"
an wrangler Bob Hinshaw...

Don...

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In the country, we do not have city shine,
we have luster, 
we have the glimmer of voles,
the fumes of turbid crawlers
under the slow burn of iridescent woods. 

We who night-watch
see from sunken waters,
gather light from luminous cisterns.
We understand black;
how it sheens the clapper claw.

On the pitch of the concealed
a country ken leads us to a quickened vision,
we see as a horse sees
fleeing from a fire breathing barn....

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Go Through hither observing
Sublime sky’s with tiny dots
Large round bright light
Dark as a burnt coal night

Mist wandering and drifting
Water lapping over rocks
Crystals gather tightly together
Moving between toes

Castles built destroyed by waves
Heads sticking out of the sand
Dogs chasing round cycles
Suits that bare it all all

Two feet walking holding hands
Tall light spinning around
Sun sinking from sight at night
Romance traveling though thoughts...

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