Moon Nightingale Poems

As soft moonlight shone upon the maiden,
   She pulled her dark hair away from her face.
   With fresh flowers, her garden...

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I am a Nightingale…
 singing a song of lavender dreams and hopes, under an ultramarine canvas blending turquoise sky and sapphire ocean, 
  ...

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hushed earth lies asleep
under harvest moon’s* halo ~
lone nightingale croons

08.13.2021



*The term "harvest moon" refers to the full, bright Moon that occurs closest to the start...

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Nestled in greenery, the song carries far,
A lonely figure against royal blue skies,
Calling for love to come be where you are,
Or just celebrating another orange...

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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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Riding on the chariot of light
Sun is coming to vanquish night
Warm welcome accorded by moon
It can doze off to sleep soon
Orange clouds, burning sky
Birds cheer...

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Dear Poetic Bird! Move lean, wide, fly to the sky.
With every tune and sound, you adorn the moon.
The sun is rising, and assumptions are shying...

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The light that thrives inside 
Dances like fireflies 
Underneath a summer moon
Singing, breathing, thinking of you

The morning rises to meet the day
Flickering lively, brilliant rays
Through...

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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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Let me dedicate this poem to Richard Lamoureux who took time to read my poems and left lovely comments.


There is a Nightingale outside my window
Sitting...

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peacocks flash color
moon dances to notes of flute...
nightingale betrayed.




Dated 15th March, 2019
Contest Writing Challenge 2, March 2019 - Haiku- Poetry
Sponsor Dear Heart
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There is a Nightingale outside the window
Sitting on the tree facing the moon
Singing a melancholy note
To the passing night

-Puvi-...

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...cont

She flew back to her nest that she so carefully tended and loved,
the angel close behind her.
“Why do you stay,” he said angrily.
“I have given...

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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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