Best Starry Night Poems

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When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a child

Soothed you were by twinkling stars
In a crib that faced a velvet sky
Did Queen Cassiopeia sing you a sweet lullaby
As...

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Like no one before, nor since
 you painted that starry night in oils
  superimposing your life story.

I feel I know this idyllic village
 blanketed by tranquil rolling hills
  embraced by calming olive trees
   their very branches a symbol of peace
 ...

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STARRY, 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 me, I love you,
I do this every night, the starry sky, an absolute delight!
I drive out of the city to...

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A Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

gamboge moon and stars
dance haloed whirlwind marriage
in violet sky

while black cypress looms
past swirling clouds as fleeting
requiem for love

through bright starry eyes
secluded heart still searches
unrequited.

©deborah burch
07/11/2012...

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his gaze -
starry night sky's
soft rays.

her face
caught the night light,
such grace!

hearts tossed,
perched on the stars -
words lost ....

hija de la luna
11.29.14
for nette onclaud's "whispers of a muse" contest...

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life forces in night skies
winds that howl in blue whimsy

gods blowing midnight stars about
stirring brews of celestial harmony

unrehearsed they swirl and whirl
churning turbulence in a vignette 

perform their euphony of a ballet
volatile they cavort and pirouette

tossing around their glitter
spinning in a dance
wild commotion
in my mind
of...

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Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”

gamboge moon and stars
dance haloed whirlwind marriage
in violet sky

lemon-greens and greys
calm sleeping childhood mem’rys
beneath white steeple

as black cypress looms
past swirling clouds like fleeting
requiem for love. 

deborah burch
07/10/2012©...

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Starry starry night, multitudes we see 


Countless stars reaching out, on to infinity.


Mystery of mysteries, such wonders do you show


The secrets that you keep, mere mortals cannot know.


Heavenwards we gaze,  imaginations taking flight


How we marvel at the universe, on a  starry, starry night....

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Alone, star gazing in the midnight hour
             Surreal the vivid hues that cross the sky
             Starry worlds beyond my comprehension
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Over the Rhone,
web of light sewn;
eyes of night’s wonder,
God’s own plunder.

Reflections mirror
the heaven’s splendor.
A magical river,
love it delivers.

A walk on the banks,
amid glowing ranks;
romantic attractions,
vibrant abstractions.

Vincent’s emotions,
magnificent potions.
Vibrant allure,
a must to procure.
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I
feel
today
will be
my last
 a feeling 
of panic
now vanished
now has passed
A sense of knowing fills my heart
Today a whole new life will start
To greet me will be Mum and Dad
Grandpa and Grandma too
The first in line to take my hand
And there to lead me through
My son...

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reflections of water
     shadow ripples
      they draw you in
  make you want to leap in
         find a portal
    for something to change
  ...

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The Constellations, intricate designs,
Displayed across the sky,
Truly show intelligence,
And a practiced eye.

Not just scattered randomly,
But very carefully balanced,
Forming systems all their own,
Not happening by chance.

Extreme precision, mathematics,
Portend another being,
Enormous power to create,
A solar system teeming,

With life and beauty everywhere.
Nature at it's best,
Proves to us that...

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Vincent
from within sanctum dykes
glamour
birthed from sorrow

celestial brightness
whirling
in Prussian azure
and sublime gold

Urania in the welkin'
blackness in the spirit
breezes probes hefty
all alone in your wisdom

an optical lover
within
dancing with orbs
through gaps with iron rods

go bust in flesh
your title
always
moored in the starlit darkness.


Written September 29, 2022


A Brian Strand Premiere...

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Sunflowers,
cheddar-cheese petals
surrounding seedy-brown-mustard centers,
stand guard over hot summer pavement
like mighty oaks.
Laughing children
run in and out the yellow forest,
slaying dragons,
rescuing damsels in distress,
then pretending to be astronauts
sailing across space 
to a planet inhabited
by tall, green stalk-like aliens
with golden helmets.
Did van Gogh imagine such things
as he painted...

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