Best Goodnight Poems

Go to sleep- though of course you will not-
to tideless waves thundering slantwise against
strong embankments, rattle and swish of spray
dashed thirty feet high, caught by the lake wind,
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Without you every morning would feel like going back to work after a holiday,
Without you I couldn't stand the smell of the East Lancs Road,
Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews,
Without you I'd probably feel happy and have more money and time and
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Though nurtured like the sailing moon
In beauty's murderous brood,
She walked awhile and blushed awhile
And on my pathway stood
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My perfect friend holds me tight
My perfect friend kisses me goodnight
My perfect friend loves me for me
My perfect friend wont let me be
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Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight
I yell ok. Finish something I'm doing,
then something else, walk slowly round
the corner to my son's room.
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Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot
In that first war, and had his realm restored
But rendered tributary, failed of late
To send his tribute; wherefore Arthur called
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O Night comes again,
When the golden light leaving the sky
Follow the sun, to the west hills it flies
Flying birds now return, reach home again
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Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span;
Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;
Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.
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The world seems a strange place tonight.
I feel as an alien
in a foreign land...
I sit, where I oft do, out-of-doors, alone,
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When we meet
in the midnight hour
country girl
I will bring you night flowers
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.
the night has fallen
and the moon has hidden behind dark clouds
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A thousand doors ago
when I was a lonely kid
in a big house with four
garages and it was summer
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.
My tattered heart was mended today
and my life has no longer gone astray.
I received a beautiful love-note bouquet
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Three things that make my life complete
Are love, laughter, and you, my sweet
The laughter has lasted since day one
Loving you darling, has been so much fun
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I knew it the first of the summer,
I knew it the same at the end,
That you and your love were plighted,
But couldn’t you be my friend?
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Goodnight little houseplant asleep on the sill
I'll pull the shades so you don't catch a chill
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Motion eludes my conscience
Sublime realities dawn
Dark figures in the ocean
Signal a chaotic retreat motion
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The day when she accepted my love
we both were two happy doves
as we used to understand each others' feelings;
talking, sleeping, muttering and loving.
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He lives a life alone on his floating kingdom,
A Dutch barge of immaculate neatness.
Barry left a life of greed and falsehoods
Many years ago
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I will not fight: though proud of pith
I hold no one worth striving with;
And should resentment burn my breast
I deem that silence serves me best:
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would you smile if you saw me crying
would you run and never look back
would you laugh if you saw me dying
would you come and kiss me goodnight...
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Good Morning—Midnight—
I'm coming Home—
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Silent night
Awaken my mind on you
As i see your face painted on the moon
Breathe me out all of my warm breaths
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MY PERFECT SISTER
My perfect sister holds me tight
My perfect sister kisses me goodnight
My perfect sister knows when I’m mad
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Haha I kissed Polly goodnight haha as we stood at her front door
Now she's quite a proper lady so I didn't ask for anything more
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She says she can
smell yellow.

She says she can
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We played dolls in that house where Father staggered with the
Thanksgiving knife, where Mother wept at noon into her one ounce of
cottage cheese, praying for the strength not to
kill herself. We kneeled over the
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Avalanche of a thousand dreams,
Engaging, raging at lifes torrent of bad luck,
Like muck it sticks and dries hard,
Like been dealt a bad hand of cards,
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who am i?
to stop the call of death
who am i?
to ignore the sound of trumphets...
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I am sitting here till you will be here by my side making love with me under the stars
Thinking of our old days, when we were deeply in love but so out of touch
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Help!
Monsters in my closet!
Monsters in the hall!
Monsters underneath my bed!
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Asleep at the wheel
Of life
Literally
Figuratively
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I reached the station well on time
My train had arrived and stood ready
The place by then had become a sea of men
The crowd steadily swelling into an eddy
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I.

Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us
As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by;
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We stood on the rented patio
While the party went on inside.
You knew the groom from college.
I was a friend of the bride.
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Greeted by the rooster's usual crow
I watched the fishermen at sea
As their little boats began to row
The people were in a hustle bustle
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I ran up the door, closed the stairs
Said my pajamas, put on my prayers
Turned off my bed and jumped in the light
All because you kissed me goodnight
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from cradle, where we lay and laugh
into an open grave
been lull for a deep sleep
the earth contributed
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In times of travail I was there
In times of depression I stood by you
In times of mock and scorn I shielded you
In times of bitterness I sorrowed with you
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EXTRACTS FROM: 'ANAMALAI POEMS' BY
LATE Ms KAMALA DAS
{ KAMALA DAS, THE NOTED MALAYALAM & ENGLISH
WRITER PASSED AWAY IN A PUNE HOSPITAL ON THE
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Merry Christmas kiddie winkles, Santa is on his way,
He’s putting on his big red suit and getting on his sleigh,
No time to have your supper kids, Rudolph’s nose is red,
So quickly kiss your mum goodnight and get yourself to bed.
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Simple words revealing a pure love
That slowly is drowning me
In the deep Ocean of my silence
Every time I think of you
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A lonely heart sets the table but is she a Milly,
a Betty or a Mabel. Tea, coffee, cakes and ale
but outside there blows a gale. Sash cord windows
rattling like chains, thunder and lighting tormenting her
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My Babbles has a nasty knack
Of keeping monkeys on her back.
A great big black one comes and swings
Right on her sash or pinny strings.
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I.

Moonlight silvers the tops of trees,
Moonlight whitens the lilac shadowed wall
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</>My mom used to always hold me tight
She was always there to kiss me goodnight
My mom was there to give me a bath and wash my hair
She was even there when I got scared
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We are pilgrims we are having journey,
To a sacred place of light and mercy,
From darkness of night to new day light,
We are going by state of transformation.
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Goodnight; ensured release,
Imperishable peace,
Have these for yours,
While sea abides, and land,
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Moon is rising up
So my dream hold me up (high)
High above i'm climbing the sky height
Passing the mountain arc
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Mrs Merryweather put coal on the fire,
while outside through the frosted windows
the snow was beginning to fall.
Christmas was only days away,
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Albion's most lovely daughter sat on the banks of the Mersey dangling her landing stage in the water.
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WHAT shall be said between us here
Among the downs, between the trees,
In fields that knew our feet last year,
In sight of quiet sands and seas,
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Feather strewn shades of pinks and yellow
Against blue shades of eloquence
White billowing clouds splashed into form
A beautiful canvas for the eye
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The stage is empty now,
having been swept for the
repeat performance...
the used styrofoam cups
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In the 'Add New Poem' instructions PH says 'Take a deep breathe',
but it should say 'breath' [rhymes with death], so I now DO grieve!
It's a grammatical error, one even (I think) 'Bri' has made in the past,
AND I'll bet my high school English teachers would....now be aghast!
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Introductory poem:

I suppose on PH I'll not be allowed to include the word D ++ N,
but I just lost hours of thinking, typing, etc., and I'm 'in a jam'.
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`Where'er you walk
Cool gales shall fan that glade'
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My mother's footsteps
Were so quiet
I barely heard her leave.
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Brittle hair prickling my nose
Breathing in my ear, deep
Resting a left leg on my hip
You lay lost to the world
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GOODNIGHT, my love, for I have dreamed of thee,
In walking dreams, until my soul is lost —
Is lost in passion's wide and shoreless sea,
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Since thou wouldst needs,
Bewitched with some ill charms,
Be buried in those monumental arms,
All we can wish is, may that earth lie light
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love, happiness and pain
fools ands smart's
just a game
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There was the flash of cold steel
as the long thin blades of the scissors
disappeared into the fine fabric of his heavy coat
Drunk and passed out.....
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Night has come, Life has come,
In this tired mood still we feel,
We zeal to have dreams of joy,
Sweetness attracts ever in love,
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Lingered long upon this dream
where nothing is as it may seem,
word of colours silently scream
and truth belongs only to me.
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I think we were never strangers-
I think we were always friends;
Standing shyly across the room
Just waiting- to begin/
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Suicide, suicide wishing I were dead,
Suicide, suicide deep in my head,
Suicide, suicide cutting my wrists,
Suicide, suicide I am so done with this.
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I tell myself Im okay while I paste on my smile.
I can forgive but forgetting takes a while.
Your words hurt me they cut to my soul.
I said I wouldnt cry or lose control.
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In the midst of red evening, leaves fall from the sky,
Yielding lavish hues and vibrancy, to gathering dusk.
Under a pearl moon, twirling leaves wave goodbye,
To warmer, brighter, gold days, in the pale stardust.
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I'm about to close my eyes
And take a trip to dreamland,
Where castles lasts for only a night,
Where joys and sorrows are short lived,
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Goodnight little angel, please gather your tears,
Use them as balm on my brow and my fears.
The lanterns of love, burn bright in your eyes,
Let them light me a path through the darkening skies.
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Red has come –
It blew in unexpectedly
When I was vulnerable.
And it brought the cold –
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Whenever I fell
asleep

my father came
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I've known you for a little while and the type of dog you are,
listened to my problems, you cleaned my tear stained face as you broke into my heart.
Of all of your own pain, you kept it deep inside,
no mammal on Gods green earth should've had to bare,
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Brothers; even those of you who are already in the sear and yellow leaf, and full of years and iniquity,
Sometimes, I doubt not, let your thoughts go back to those days of antiquity
When mother tucked you into your little bed.
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They take me where
I wanna go
whether fast
or plodding slow
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its been awhile since i heard ur voice as pretty as it sounds
im glad to see your beautiful face as beautiful as it is
the way you make me laugh is none like others
the taste of your lips is what i miss
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The play is done; the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter's bell:
A moment yet the actor stops,
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This is all I can say
about the suicide,
the attempt
to end my wretched life.
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The celebration ended
as we dragged ourselves to bed.
My heart is brimming over
with the words that he just said.
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I can't stop thinking 'bout you
No matter what I do
Day or night, one thing is true
Don'cha know, I'm crazy 'bout you!
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(Note from writers: the following is an extracted 'off the cuff ' writing played out on Forum on 22/2/09) . EP: Emancipation Planz and HN: Herbert Nehrlich

EP:
Tonight… (I not sit on the fence… I put up a signal.. want to play…? ? ?)
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I walked to the cliff top to watch the sunset
thinking of you and the time that we met
I watched as the sun drifted down from the sky
a reminding reflection of light in your eyes
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I know you're there when all is quiet,
I can hear your breathing in my ear.
I feel you watching me, if only from a distance.
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Echoes of my parents voices linger lovingly,
As the light of day slants across Carlow town like striking gold,
Filters of sunshine caressing me like a sign of my loved ones to hold,
To talk and embrace as our hearts burst with joy and love,
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'Goodnight' my darling he whispered, as he perched himself on the bed,
'I was thinking of you today, you know, about the day we wed.
You looked so pure and perfect, like a cherub upon a cloud,
Approaching me from down the isle. you made me feel so proud.
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Veronica. COME then, a song; a winding gentle song,
To lead me into sleep. Let it be low
As zephyr, telling secrets to his rose,
For I would hear the murmuring of my thoughts;
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THE LANGUAGE OF WATER


You wait by the lake
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Oh my sweetie
My little cutie
Why do you fret?
Why can’t you be smart?
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My uncle Dan
was a Harlem Man
danced extra light on his feet
smiles like radiant sun
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suicide, suicide stamped in my brain
suicide, suicide can't feel no pain
suicide, suicide close my eyes tight
suicide, suicide tell them goodnight
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I

And she stands in the room
with downcast eyes
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The cottage was a thatch'd one,
The outside old and mean,
Yet everything within that cot
Was wondrous neat and clean.
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once upon a time there was a little girl.
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The dew on the leaves hint the coming of dawn
Father Sol on his perch, morning birds sing their songs
He peeks o'er the hills, Sol's warmth clears the Glade
As the dawns dewey clouds willingly fade
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In the mist of the night
waiting to be held by you,
waiting for that kiss
goodnight, waiting to hear your
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For his afternoon and evening workout,
Our son is getting ready to go gym,
Walking for fifteen minutes so far,
He will twist and twist and jump,
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Ask no more the distance from dew to grass
Nor the way leading twilight to moonlight
When i begin searching for you
My morning chases your night
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Not the blue-fountained Florida hotel,
Bell-capped, bellevued, straight-jacketed and decked
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