Short Nightjars Poems

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Premium Member Summer Heat Wave

sun-kissed briars droop
summer blisters scar grey twigs
cypress leaves ooze sweat

nightjars scoop dry ice
v ripples on rain starved ponds
homing pigeon’s drought

Date Created : 26/6/2020 Twenty sixth June 2020

Tania Kitchin’s Summer Haiku Poetry Contest
Form: Haiku


I Cried Out

I cried out to the four winds
Do your worst!
I said to the sun
More
I said to the rain
Less
My soul searches
Un-rested upon mountains
Lying in low valleys
Evermore
When shall I search no more
Time not existing
Sun never to burn out
Or rage in grandeur
Beware the nightjars
Might fly away with you
Don’t stay awake at night

Sweet Strawberry

O' Strawberry Moon 
Magnanimous beatitude and abundance boon
A beautiful glint off still waters
A shining hope for sons and daughters 
Close and low you hang in a summer sky
With nightjars, fireflies, and nighthawks mystically flying by
Your warm, golden, reddish calmness looms
Man expresses gratitude for another sweet strawberry moon
Form: Imagism

Premium Member International Funeral

God in the gloaming,
splits the violet horizon with lightning.
An assembly of angels of every nation and
tongue,
they're lifting coffins of great numbers of
war dead-
both military and civilians of all ages.

Dusky rolling fields of scarlet poppies,
nations united in collective sorrow,
lamentation of humankind,
then, a worldwide hush-
as nightjars sing a dirge of the universe. ~
Form: Elegy

First Shower of Rain

Warmth grows from the dense cold mist
Call of nightjars disguise the isolation
Majesty of the sun obscured by overcast dawn
Radiance of the bonfire dwindles and dies
Rampant raindrops fall freely on my forehead
Papilio emerge from the rain as the first rain falls
Droplets on the butterfly’s wings reflect turquoise hue
A snail takes refuge under a fresh fallen leave
It crawls on my diary leaving a trail of the first rainfall


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