Best Night Poems
Below are the all-time best Night poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of night poems written by PoetrySoup members
Black Diamond NightBlack Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery)
Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely,
Sinister...
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Categories:
night, body, death, history, lonely,
Form:
Epic
That Starry NightLike no one before, nor since
you painted that starry night in oils
superimposing your life story.
I feel I know this idyllic village
blanketed...
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Categories:
art, depression, night, passion,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Starry, Starry NightSTARRY, STARRY NIGHT
I often look up towards the sky at night,
And wonder who or what is there,
I shout out loud, if you see or hear...
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Categories:
night, stars, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear
Virtuoso Maestro unleash...
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Categories:
desire, music, night, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Oh, Heavenly NightThat night we kissed, my heart became a butterfly.
It sprouted wings and danced across the velvet sky,
then leapt across the multitude of stars there strewn
along...
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Categories:
heart, night,
Form:
Lyric
Categories:
night, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
When I Stop and PrayWhen the storm clouds boil around me,
And the lightning splits the sky--.
When the howling wind assails me,
And life's sea is rolling high--
When my...
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Categories:
night, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form:
Lyric
Categories:
beauty, fantasy, night, passion,
Form:
Free verse
SheolDark Knight-tress
Underneath
This gown I feel nothing
Silk less feelings
The odor of intimate apparel lessens
Vanity fare from any sun
Warrior of beauty
Where have you gone?
A...
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Categories:
night, abuse, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Haiku - Celestial Seductionlights weave through snowflakes
teasing and twirling about
distant stars dancing
a brilliant display
wearing only hand-me-downs
the moon steals the show
~FJ Thomas
01/01/2020...
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Categories:
moon, night, snow, stars,
Form:
Haiku
MoonlightPainting by Edvard Munch, 1895: "Moon Light"
your soft hand trembles in mine
no words are spoken
we observe our ascending full moon
as we have every month...
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Categories:
night, death, love, love hurts,
Form:
Ekphrasis
How Do I Hold the WindOn the edge of silence
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...
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Categories:
night, grief, longing, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Eroticism of Inspiration
In swoon ‘neath golden moon and sable sweep
let bathe with hues upon my canvas soak
romance a mingle,...
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Categories:
appreciation, art, inspiration, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Amidst the Darkened Veils'Neath umbra skies I seek a mirrored moment
the breeze a capricious charmer
blows serpentine sways to life
a ballet of tall switchgrass dancers
sweeping edges raspy green
dulling in...
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Categories:
night, angel, august, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Silhouettes In Moonlight~
Cotton candy swirls
on a pink flamingo sky
Late December wishes
that are slowly floating by
Apricot horizons
glowing softly ‘cross the hill
Twilight born emotions
falling on this night so still
Sweet...
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Categories:
good night,
Form:
Rhyme