Name Nightingale Poems

Poems for Poets VII



Sweenies (or Swine-ies) Among the Nightingales
by Michael R. Burch

(for the Corseted Ones and the Erratics)

Open yourself to words, and if they come,
be...

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inahitaji kuimba mbele
 ya wanakwaya kila mahali
Sing brother sing
Imba kaka imba 
Imba kaka imba

Nightingale brother
His name is Elijah 
He's a nightingale 
His God is still...

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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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Midst inviting aurora’s awesome glow
My heart basks in radiant morning flow…  
Glorious dawn declares God’s victorious day
Such is nightingale’s tune, so sweet and gay....

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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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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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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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My heart
Like a dying nightingale,
Seaks your company,
Either in doleful silence
Of twilit evenings,
Or enfolded in joys of endless love,
Of your warm and gentle arms.

And it pipes...

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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...

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