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Whippoorwills Poems - Poems about Whippoorwills

Premium Member 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......

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Categories: whippoorwills, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lonesome Whippoorwill-Country and Western Music Video Collab with Michael Tor - POTD
... 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......

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Categories: whippoorwills, bird, emotions, loss, love,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member 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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Categories: whippoorwills, betrayal, emotions, loneliness, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: whippoorwills, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member NA Poetry Contest BE STILL MY HEART
... “Let my heart be still a moment and let this mystery explore” Edgar Allen Poe. Flutter dear heart Let this mystery start Of ......

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Categories: whippoorwills, heart,
Form: Rhyme



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......

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Categories: whippoorwills, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: whippoorwills, allegory, dream, extended metaphor,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: whippoorwills, dream, fantasy, friend, home,
Form: Couplet
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......

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Categories: whippoorwills, animal, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wizard Watchers Haiku
... waiting for wise words whispering and wondering whippoorwills wander 5/30/2022 ......

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Categories: whippoorwills, allusion, bird,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: whippoorwills, beautiful, imagery, moon, star,
Form: Couplet
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......

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Categories: whippoorwills, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: whippoorwills, childhood, memory,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member 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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Categories: whippoorwills, dance, love, music, night,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Can'T Desire
...I can't desire the ones I love and love ones I desire, our calluses too young, too old, to long withstand the fire that draws us all like moths to flames that sparkle in scant dew of each dawn's s......

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Categories: whippoorwills, love, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme

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