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Night Poems | Examples of Night Poetry

Night Poems. Read and share great examples of poetry about the night. This list of night poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of night poetry. This list of works about night is an excellent resource for examples on how to write night poems.
Premium Member Twilight
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ world bathed in soft glow twilight's gentle touch does flow time of peace and calm ...Read the rest...
Categories: night,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Performance
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ in blackness with the strength of midnight blue whispering to its soft heart balletic stars perform ...Read the rest...
Categories: night, stars,
Form: Kimo
MOONLESS NIGHT
It's one of those nights The moon hoards its light Fireflies taking stage Lighting life into our gasping breaths. Stars whispered known secrets To the cool, quiet breeze Grass beneath the sheets we lay Cries for mercy as our act painful. Our shadows...Read the rest...
Categories: 12th grade, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Serendipity
Beneath the quarter moon’s pale glow, Gas lamps flicker, casting shadows below. Alleys whisper secrets, haunting and deep, Lost in memories, he wanders on lonely street. In the stillness of night, where shadows dance, Oliver walks, caught in a trance. Echoes...Read the rest...
Categories: night, dark, gothic, hope, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lilith
“The actual guise of her has become apparent” ~~ The Poet Engaged in rapturous slander. Forced by reputation to meander. Through the annals of time, Deemed worse than a witch sublime Indicted as a demon in old folk lore Seducing...Read the rest...
Categories: night,
Form: Rhyme



Winded
I’m sitting on my lawn chair Outside the night is cool I hear the trees swaying The breeze chills my skin It knocks on my hippocampus Am I here or where it blows? Breeze, you are timeless From queens to...Read the rest...
Categories: childhood, night, nostalgia, star,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FAR
Distant starlit place Flying parsecs away In outer space Circles Milky Way A blinking light Night and day Cepheid Hubble found, Receding slowly apace Universe outward bound. ...Read the rest...
Categories: day, flying, light, night,
Form: Other
Premium Member Whispers of The Night
In moonlit dreams, the stars align, Their shimmering dance, a cosmic sign. Silent whispers weave through the air, Echoes of wishes, secrets to share. The night unfolds its velvet cloak, As constellations softly invoke Stories of...Read the rest...
Categories: night, creation, dark, family, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Collar, White Collar
Blue collar school, Blue collar play, Blue collar children, Blue collar praise, Blue collar words, Blue collar phrased, Blue collar work, Blue collar pay, Blue collar union, Blue collar say, Blue collar terraced, Blue collar glazed, Blue collar town, Blue collar ways, Blue collar nights, Blue collar days, Blue collar skies, Blue...Read the rest...
Categories: children, day, house, night,
Form: Rhyme
Word Grace
All day ceremonies of dark's brilliance Led in by outstretched curtains welcoming, An appearance for my time's bleary dusk. The firmament from the red gloom nearing, Of sun's affection for the moon; wrestling. My limbs tumbling down from frosted heights, The...Read the rest...
Categories: night, care, dark, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme Royal
The Bog
Step into reason The quicksand of mind The harder you struggle The deeper the slime The deeper the slime The harder you fight The sun further distant Consumed — by the night (Dreamsleep: May, 2024) ...Read the rest...
Categories: night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Darkness and light
Between darkness and light. Reveal the magic of night. Cast shadow over the beauty of light. Find solitude in the quiet of night. The curtain comes down on the day. Its histories are fading away. Into memory or just...Read the rest...
Categories: night, absence, dark, day, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Dreams
In the quiet slipstream of night, where thoughts unfurl like tendrils of smoke, some dismiss dreams as mere echoes— brain farts, they jest, leftover gas from our wakeful hours. But dreams stretch...Read the rest...
Categories: dream, night,
Form: Free verse
Crow Fights The Raven
Beneath the pall of an eldritch moon, ...Read the rest...
Categories: night, betrayal, bird, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse
Under The Sheets
Under the sheets lies abundance of dreams Tucked away safely to visit each night Laden in comfort,...Read the rest...
Categories: night, cute, dream, happy, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Night Poems

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Book: Shattered Sighs