Nocturnal Hour

It’s the quiet wee hours of the morning
The sky onyx speckled with stars
My moon glowing casting silver light
To brighten the darkened night

The earth in a relaxing slumber
The loud busyness muted in tone
A hush has fallen over the ground
As faint whispers become gentle sound

The dark stifles obnoxious clamor
As my brain becomes less anxious
Letting my surroundings be serene
A soft moment of routine

Void of external roaring chatter
The poet’s hours quench the soul
Releasing the swirling tension
Into a different dimension

Nocturnal hours, my favorite time
Creativity is easily found
As twinkling ivory orbs gaze down
On a lethargic docile town

Gently my mind gravitates to you
Always lingering on your eyes
A pale blue sky gleaming brightly
Capturing my attention tightly

As the darkness begins settling in
I allow myself to drift away
Picturing your intense carnal stare
In this moment that you and I share

Reviews

[Lorry]

Being awake to see the day begin is my favourite time. Its amazing where your thoughts can take you when the day slowly fades into a wonderful time when the incessant noise and blah blah sleep.
It is the calm before the new days storm and inspires us most of all when pen touches paper.

[Poetic Beauty]

I love twilight with its purples, pinks and reds

[Lorry]

I love it most for its shut the hell up'ness! ☺

[Poetic Beauty]

Yes I’m a lover of it being quiet as well. There is a time and place for noise.

[Lorry]

Yes there is...out of earshotfor me! ☺

[Poetic Beauty]

Me too. My mom likes to chitter chat when I first get wake. I have learned to tune her out some otherwise I’m too overloaded lol

[nadia dmitri]

I love the word choice here, my favourite line is "On a lethargic docile town", bravo :)

[Poetic Beauty]

I’m glad you like that line. It think it really helps set the tone and show the surroundings allowing the reader to “breathe” and maybe relax a little while reading it

[Chris Shaw]

I too am more creative in the quiet hours of morning when I can see the moon and stars or movement of clouds through the sky light. I am an insomniac. My mind too active to sleep till dawn. Inspiration comes though, from many places . I really like the description in your stanzas. Nice piece PB. Have a good weekend.

Chris

[Poetic Beauty]

I don’t sleep well until after midnight. Many of my creative thoughts come late in the wee hours of the morning. Once the chaos of the day fades and calms; the is quiet with little to no movement my creativity come to life

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I can so relate to this piece. My mother said that from the time I was born I had my days and my nights "mixed up". So I worked second shift jobs for years getting off work at two in the morning, nothing open but the grease pit restaurants so I'd go there and eat breakfast. The drunks were always there on Friday nights and the police usually were to. But you're so on spot about the general peace and quiet. It's so much more peaceful in the country.

[Poetic Beauty]

I don’t live in the country just a small town actually what they consider a village. It’s normally very quiet on my street at night after 10 pm

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I didn't actually live in the country myself but rather in the Appalachian mountains. We still called it country though. I worked in town. They called it a city but it was more of a town.

[Poetic Beauty]

Sounds like it would have been a beautiful place to live. I think we have maybe 2,000 people that live in our little town lol

[Anita Frader]

If you voice this poem with a soft background music it would make such a wonderful meditation. It's quite soothing.

[Poetic Beauty]

Thank you for saying so. I’ve never tried to read my poems out loud with music in the background. I’m glad it is soothing to you. That’s exactly how the night time hours are for me

[Jibey]

You describe well the sense of the night and its stars in the sky, the moments of quietness in the early hours when reflection draws on our deepest consciousness... bringing forth those longings that speak of secret pleasures and shared encounters

[Poetic Beauty]

I like the night time hours because they are quieter and allow me peace to think and write after a long crazy day of dealing with people at work

[Miss Sharon]

What a beautiful and well written post this is! I love the closing stanza...(As the darkness begins settling in I allow myself to drift away Picturing your intense carnal stare In this moment that you and I share) ~Sharon

[Poetic Beauty]

I actually added the last stanza after I had finished writing this. I posted it. Reread it and somewhere from inside my mind this stanza came to be and I added it