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Son Nightingale Poems

These Son Nightingale poems are examples of Nightingale poems about Son. These are the best examples of Nightingale Son poems written by international poets.

Sappho's Lullaby

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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Categories: nightingale, desire, Lullaby, moon, mother

Ii Procne

I must be dreaming. Alas, through 
every dream, like pain through 
anesthesia, a torturous 
reality shows up.

A burning taste of jealousy. 
A blind deaf muteness...

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Categories: nightingale, myth,

I Philomela - Cm

Blessed be the hour when angels
shake my filth off their wings.
The night was a garden of eyes*.
Luckily, days are blind.

Mute with the sinful obsession,
deaf to...

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Categories: nightingale, myth,