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Star BG Jul 2017
Anchoring at bed post of dreams I drifted,
rocked to sleep by nightingales song
by blanket of breezes that cuddled self.

Worries like clouds drifted away
making room for a menagerie of visions.

Time slowed, as heart opened
for expansion inside its gentle song.  

Self merged with breath,
breath with moment,
moment with dreams.

Until loving guides came to visit and
body rejuvenated inside a spider web of light.



StarBG © 2017
just couldn't sleep tonight so here I am pounding the keyboard of my own thoughts.
Serafeim Blazej Sep 2016
The night is coming
and the birds are flying,
they will sleep
and we will watch
at sunset
inside the lighthouse.

The nightingale will sing
when the moon comes
and then you will hear
a lullaby to sleep
and have beautiful dreams
all of them laughing.

The night is coming
and the birds are flying,
they will fall asleep
and at dawn
everyone will wake up
and then fly.

And we will wake up
after dreaming all night,
smiling for the birds,
these are rare moments,
at daybreak
full of euphoria.
Poem.
It was to be a kind of lullaby.
It was part of a story.

("O rouxinol vai cantar")

Edited on 28/12/17.
The Judge May 2016
I can feel myself
slipping away.
I can feel myself fading
without delay.

I hold a lit torch
to save me from the dark.
I hear a nightingale
when I want to hear a lark.

I used to think that light
and dark were the same.
But now I know
that one is more tame.

Save me from the light
because all I know is the dark.
Bring me the nightingale,
and destroy the lark.
Ignatius Hosiana Sep 2015
There are times, like a bee life's got to sting
When we look in the wild and only thorns we see
Deaf to the beautiful songs the Nightingale will sing
We weren't taught how to swim yet this life is a Sea
Sometimes we wish its just a song that'll beautifully come to end
Yet it keeps playing on and flowing like a river or stream
We try to fit in for emotional safety but succeed in failing to blend
We pray for an escape as we silently scream
Can you tell the difference between reality and fiction?
Is never forgiving time and stopping to believe a crime?
Is it a fault to render it an unfair jurys Diction?
Isn't that similar to forcing every poem to rhyme?
There's a song that we sung when we still hoped
And our shattered hearts still sing even if our mouths stopped
niamh Jun 2015
The nightingale sings
A melancholy lament
For it's broken home
Too many forests being destroyed
sash sriganesh Feb 2015
High on the tree branch
At midnight
In the eerie silence
She starts singing
Like never heard before.
skyblueandblack Feb 2015
I miss him
he was the poet in my poetry
the leaves of my poet tree;
and now this winter is so barren.

˜
I miss him
like the flowers miss the springtime
like the nightingale misses  its song;
and this silence is a deafening cacophony.

˜
I miss him
and I long to hear the nightingale sing
rather than recall it from memory..
before it becomes an unfamiliar fragrance
in my garden.

˜
I miss him.
http://skyblueandblack.com/2015/02/01/i-long-to-hear-the-nightingales-song/
BianchiBlue Jan 2015
If the sun does not, then the moonlight will
fall on my chest as a nightingale sings
with delight in knowing your beauty still
in this darkness - my breath is held until
you delight in what your desires bring
if the moon does not, then the daylight will
wrap you in warmth while the heavens are spilled
in your heart as all the secrets of spring
find delight in knowing your beauty still
with each heartbeat drawing closer to fill
in your spirit with what you are longing
for if the day does not, the starlight will
reach into your soul through your window sill
to grant my wish on a nightingale’s wing
yet if the stars do not, I always will  
find delight in knowing your beauty still
a partial villanelle
How very lovely
Is the nightingale's singing
Yet swans have no voice
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