Hope Nightingale Poems

Yet another surly night staring at a haloed moon,
until I heard a nightingale sing the glories of dawn.
Pastels painted the sky as he trilled an...

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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...

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she livened the world 
with her songs
one day the hippo 
heard her sing
he looked up 
and insulted her beak

she stared at her reflection 
in the...

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It once sang in Berkeley Square,
So the song goes,
An ode to it written by Keats not in prose,
The lady who had a lamp,
Had its name...

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Sappho's Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

Hushed yet melodic, the hills and the valleys
sleep unaware of the nightingale's call
while the dew-laden lilies lie
listening, 
glistening...
this is their...

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Locked within a golden cage
Kept under lock and key
Cloaked with a dark veil
To hide me from the world
Kept in the darkness
In this cold prison.

Under watchful...

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On mourning and silent hill
There is black and sadly house
The time as the devil’s seal
on doors and I look in south
I’m trying to find the...

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Nightingale Insomnia

The leaves are quite tonight
the winds have gone to lazy rest;
the moon steals a peak—
disinterested, reclines away
leaving the dark humid night lingering
and sleep becoming...

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What is the song that nightingale will sing
Perhaps it is story of a ring
That belongs to some ancient king
Or perhaps it is laws of limitlessness...

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*****

beyond the archway,
a hope-filled star glows bright,
burning the ghost-war

*****...

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The golden silence melts away, and joy un-named
From the phantom pipes exults me
For no silence can so rhapsodized and doubts tamed
That man deserves better glory.
And...

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Awake now the nightingale
Hid, I cannot see its face
Webs the day a better tale
And soothe the heart with its grace

To hear it sing, one must...

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