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Poetry Friday October 28, 2022: Nocturne Poems as Picture Books

 
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Nocturne Poems as Picture Books

A nocturne poem is a poem set at night.
 
 
Examples of adult Nocturne poems:
 
 
After our Nevermores Poetry group wrote nocturne poems for our weekly poetry prompt, I wanted to explore this form in picture books. Many of these picture books are poems or are lyrical books about night.
 

If You Were Night by Muon Thi Van, illustrated by Kelly Pousette

The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson, illustrated by Beth Krommes

Nocturne by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Anne Hunter

The Night is for Darkness by Jonathan Stutzman, illustrated by Joseph Kuefler

Moon Wishes by Guy and Patricia Storms, illustrated by Milan Pavlović

Hello, Moon by Julie Downing

Moonbeam: A Lullaby of the Phases of the Moon by Ann Bausum, illustrated by Kyung Eun Han

 
What other nocturne poems as picture books have I missed?
 
 

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red blooms trumpet—
their announcement heard
by the ants
 
Haiku & Photo © 2022 Marcie Flinchum Atkins 
 

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