Life Nightingale Poems

seaguls in the sea
   ~low expectatations to reach~
     easy life to live

eagles above clouds
    ~small eyes...

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Luscinian voices in the thicket of a midnight waltz 
single male birds singing from a point of solitude  
closing down on city sounds inside...

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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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A nightingale sings of dawn's glory while
The sun peeks across yonder horizon
And darkness recedes like a waning smile
Greeting sleepy folks slowly a-risin'
Bright sunshine allows no...

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"The Lady with the Lamp," Florence Nightingale
  Icon of Victorian culture. Her life, an exciting tale

     White pinafore over colonial...

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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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ALLAMA IQBAL TRANSLATIONS INTO MODERN ENGLISH



Excerpt from Rumuz-e bikhudi (“The Mysteries of Selflessness”)
by Allama Iqbal aka Muhammad Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Like a candle...

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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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I'm standing here still, where the sweat of my soul fell__
knee deep in the blood... of our wishing well
Right back here where our troubles began.
where...

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I have been around the globe
have seen what many have known.
my wings have taken me to every corner
but life is better for me in this...

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...cont

His sleep was tormented,
each sound he heard playing upon his dreams,
until the sweet notes he remembered
floated into his ears like the gentleness of down.
Following the...

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Dour gray granite monolith,
the tower rises, stark, against the velutinous grenadine
of the dusk filled evening sky.
As the god of night draws his opaque cloak
across the...

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As the nightingale sang,
I lay in my bed
Listening to it's song 
And as I drifted of to sleep 
The music went on and on
I slowly...

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Our life is so short,
It's similar to a journey for unknown destination;
In this journey we have to pass lots of port.
Not a single day we...

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