Best Nightingale Poems

In the flickering light of the lamp,
Despite the chilly night, air so damp,
She surveyed books so avidly read,
Studied the guidelines now in her head.
Time came: she departed for the war,
Sure she'd care for all those wounded sore.
Many followed as she left her stamp,
At night she'd...

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Cobwebs of thoughts dangle in forlorn corner
Spun by emotions that surrendered long ago
Still hanging out, anguished, in grip of throes
Engrossed in silence while gazing night skies
Admiring how they once painted astral designs
Brush stroking delight by sheer hint of eyes
Until the silken threads of lives ripped...

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Oh, with great delight, from
out of the shadowy night, I hear
a loud, powerful melody drifting
    such a mournful song 
                  with a chant soul-stirring
a songster...

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THE NIGHTINGALE LOST HER LAMP

Anita’s eyes were brown. 
She was the kindest of angels.
Her speech firm with authority 
but reassuring with a glass- like
sensitivity; she seemed to know all.
 
Prompt as a rooster's first crow,         
that's how...

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A rhapsody of
rock and roll rain,
tango twisting winds,
samba snow flakes, 
step, skip, 
spin and swing.

So the subdued sun 
remains solemnly shy 
as its orchestra of rays 
fail to compose.

Recalling 
vivid verdant visions, 
a promenade 
of naked trees tremble, 
serenading melancholic melodies.

On a bitter branch
a nightingale...

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Nondescript brown bird of renown,
nightly you serenade me.
Golden dulcet tones flood the woods
and I am wafted far away, 
off into a wondrous dream world
full of mystical creatures.

written 01/13/2015

Contest: Night Creatures 

by Shadow950

5: Nightingale...

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Songs of the Nightingale

Joyous angelic arias,
raised in exuberant praise,
serenade and soothe restless souls;     
moving matchless melodies,
nightingale’s mellifluous songs…       
manifest Glory of God!        


01-17-2015...

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It's another lonely night 
 shared with the glowing moon,
 while listening to a Nightingale 
 continuously sing a sad tune.

 What has a songbird 
 to be so sullen about?
 Does it trill in anger? 
 Is its heart filled with doubt?

 Some birds...

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Perched on a sturdy branch on yonder tree
Pouring out your heart in sweet melody
With a full throated birdsong rhapsody
Filling me with such joyful ecstasy

Do you sing sweetly to woo your lady
Who listens somewhere on a nearby tree
Her heart must surely melt at the beauty
Of the...

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Sing, my nightingale, sing for me again
Sing from your bramble tree
Sing, my nightingale, sing and it will rain
Earth is melancholy
And brown, brown, brown, the frost
Has burned everything down
Change comes so callously and cost
More than green or barren ground
Sing, my nightingale, sing
Do not ever fly away
I...

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fly my little nightingale
and take this song i give 
to the land where genies 
and magic carpets live

hide yourself very well
and you will not be seen
but before the dawn becomes the day
proclaim my love with screems

fly my little nightingale
into her ear, into her heart
tell her...

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Three cheers for feisty Florence Nightingale
Who took under her wing the wounded and the frail.
'The lady with the lamp' lit up those soldiers' lives.
Old age snuffed out her candle but her nursing legacy survives.


23/01/19

Educate Me With Humor - Leader Clerihew Poetry Contest
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Colours bounce in euphoric ecstasy
and another day is birthed, in melody,
as the dawn brings forth emerald reflection,
the sun playing on the looms of nature's glee
with the nightingale's whistle in a harmony.

Dull on it's perch,
determined in his search
for a jewel in creation's crown,
a partner for his...

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A Nightingale sings of dawn's glory
    In the still of the night
She croons in crescendo the story
    Of how the sun gives light

The Mighty Creator who made her
    Made the ball of fire too
That transforms the...

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Far away I hear a dulcet song~
soaring like celestial symphony; 
My weary heart and soul renewed
like a newly bloomed white jasmine
cheering for the first kiss of raindrops.

The indigo sky unlocks
dazzling galaxies hailing 
in labyrinthine melody;
Reminds me of your sweet song
as you serenade me at daybreak.

The...

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