Whippoorwills Poems - Poems about Whippoorwills

His Constant Companion

...Albert Nelson's father bought a huge clock, the very day he was born,
A happy fellow, with a winsome smile. Like the merry pink sun, at dawn.

Being too tall for the shelf, it stood inside...

Be still my heart 1391

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Flutter dear heart
Let this mystery start
Of entwined lace
And God’s holy grace
With scented chiffon flowing
Smoke from the chimney blowing
And stifled salted tears
From memories through the...

When Summer Comes Along

..."Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June." Al Bernstein

June’s moon illumines with gold light in a sapphire sky.
It’s as clear to me as a cloudless night summertime is ni...

The Lonesome Whippoorwill-Country and Western Music Video Collab with Michael Tor - POTD

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POTD 24TH April 2025


In acknowledgement to Michael Tor for the invitation to collaborate and create a music video on this heart rendering ballad of the Lonesome Whippoorwill. T...

The Lonesome Whippoorwill Cries Out To His Long Lost Love

...In the darkness of the night, 
with the beautiful stars above.
There's a lonesome Whippoorwill. 
Calling out for his Dear love.

Crooning songs he sadly sings.
Wishing she comes back to him.

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Excelsior to the Would-be Scribes

...Mornings are made for paper and pens 
In the hands of a would-be scribe,
At each day’s awakening between sun and shade 
And silence is coming alive.

From out of the dark, the touch of a spark 
...

Missouri Raised

...Growing up in Podunk Missouri,
meant that we had the freedom to roam.
Up and down rivers and wooded hills,
those places that we called home.

Picked berries, peaches, plums, and cherries,
and a...

Canoeing On the Current River

...Our riverbank launch at dawn
where dense forest chills the breeze,
where cottonwood leaves flutter like wings,
and weeping willow penumbras tease.

Glistening, rippling turquoise water churns.
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Almost Home

...I believed in fitness and healthy living, including obtaining sufficient sleep,
To revel for years in buttery sunshine, which makes emerald willows weep.

I consumed only healthier foods, includin...

Winter Witchery

...Woodland wildlife were weather wary, withdrawn.
Wily wolves watched winter's warning... woebegone.
Wildflowers withered while worrisome willows would
whisper, "Winter witchery weaves withi...

Wizard Watchers Haiku

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             waiting for wise words
             whispering and wondering
             whippoorwills wander




                      5/30/2022






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Like a Star Am I

...LIKE A STAR AM I


Like a star am I!
Who only shimmers in velvet gem darkness, aye.

This~ my world of transcendental mystery.
And the only place, you will ever substantiate the 
mystical, me...

Whippoorwill

...There is no greater mystery to me than the whippoorwill
He stops at my home each April and September - never late -
On his way to North or South to who - knows - where and who - knows - why
But as...

A Nightmare With Long-Lasting Effects

...In my worst, most surreal childhood nightmare, my little sister and I
were playing near a rain-swollen creek, in which—in a flash--she floated 
facedown, drowned. Then, already paralyzed, I was att...

Music of the Night

...In full twilight surrender.
Whippoorwills chirped as they danced.
Asteria strummed her lyre
for them; music of the night!
The newlyweds stepped out for

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