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A Child’s Night-CaveAt night
In my room
Curtains flap
Scraps of black
Look like bats
Then a snore
And a growl –
‘It’s a bear!’
‘It’s a ghost!’
‘It’s the fridge,’
says Dad.
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Categories:
child, fear, night,
Form: Free verse
Soft Shadowsthe darkness of night
soft shadows where one can hide
perhaps then to dream
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Categories:
dark, dream, night,
Form: Haiku
The FlaresAmber flares rising at night
Beaming the hills with their bright light
Slowly fading as they drop
And disappear as they stop
Inspired by flares fired by the soldiers at night as part of military...
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Categories:
night,
Form: Rhyme
One Heartbeat Away
Stars, twinkling like fireflies, senses,
Even my heart’s best defenses
Can’t prevent the feelings flowing,
One heartbeat away, rhythms growing…
Moonlight, whispers pearlescent charm,
Professing gentle who shan’t harm.
Wonder that is always glowing,
One heartbeat away, rhythms growing…
Celestial nights, sleepless delights
Soundless...
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Categories:
appreciation, blessing, inspiration, night,
Form: Kyrielle
Euphoric Dances~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
euphoric dances
beneath waxing crescent moon
busy shadows breeze
undressing the midnight hour
to reveal the falling stars...
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Categories:
night, stars,
Form: Tanka
NightmareLow below the foaming seam,
Slowly grows a bright red gleam,
Only known in my own dreams,
Lonely drone of evil schemes.
It swims fast, it wont last,
But right now it's forever,
It kills me, it always sees,
Let me go?...
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Categories:
night, dark, death, fear, how
Form: Rhyme
A solitary figureIn the dimly lit corners of her existence,
She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence.
From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born,
Destined to wander, forsaken and torn.
In childhood's tender grasp, she stood...
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Categories:
night, dark, loneliness, lost, mental
Form: Rhyme
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 1Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.
Because morning glories
held my well-bucket hostage
I went begging for water!
—Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael...
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Categories:
animal, fire, nature, night,
Form: Haiku
Nighttime Bliss
Nights once amiss
Now birth cerebral bliss
Evenings belong to caring for Oneself
Lovely potions and Serums lining the shelf
A cup of steam next to a Lover dreaming
Worries now a focus of mind-clearing
With crosswords or...
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Categories:
night, anxiety, blessing, deep, family,
Form: Rhyme
night timethe moon is sleepless
keeps stars at bay with dim smile
nomadic travels...
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Categories:
night, sky,
Form: Haiku
Dancing StarsThe stars in the sky throw a party at night
A million twinkling points of light.
They come and invite me as a guest
To witness the dance and judge the contest.
The Big Dipper’s ladle scoops the dark
Orion...
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Categories:
celebration, moon, night, star,
Form: Rhyme
GO NO MORE A BOWLINGSo we’ll go no more a bowling
So late into this night
Though our arms be still as willing
And the lanes be still as bright,
For balls wear out the fingers
And arthritis shows its might,
While the back pains...
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Categories:
age, humor, night, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Night and DayEach monster and demon have taken flight,
and I have made it through the night;
But there is another dragon I must slay,
and I will make it through the day....
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Categories:
day, night,
Form: Rhyme
Homer TranslationsSurrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch
Passage home? Impossible! Surely...
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Categories:
night, beauty, god, home, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Charmed Meadows
When dawn drifts into charmed meadows
enchantment fades with the shadows,
drinking perfume from the night's air,
stirring fragrance that lingers there.
Faintest mist sprinkles wild grasses,
when dawn drifts into charmed meadows.
Sewn jewels on satin sashes
of Sylphs dancing with...
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Categories:
night, celebration, fairy, fantasy, magic,
Form: Quatern
Specific Types of Night Poems
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baby, babies, beautiful, bonfire, children, funny, good, goodnight, her, him, love, romantic, sad, sky,
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