An old poem challenge. :)

  The other day I was looking over a bunch of poems I'd written years ago, and found one I thought I'd share.  I wrote it six years ago, in 2010, for a poetry challenge on the CleanPlace writer's I was blessed to be a part of.  The challenge was to write a 10-20 line poem, using this line (without changing it) as the opening or closing line:

                    'wings of the nightingale watch'

  And here is what my then-18-year-old-self came up with...  And I don't despise it today, so that's a pretty big accomplishment.  :P

                  

                          Nightingale Song

                           Poem by Bree M. M.  --  June, 2010

Listen to the wings of the nightingale, watch

as they brush through the black velvet sky—

Spangled with stars on this midsummer night;

I have hours to wait

till the breaking of dawn.

On the song of the nightingale

rides the breath of the night—

mingled with a hymn from the stars.

A humble brown bird with the moon

on its wings, graces the dark

with a prelude to light.

                                   ~       ~       ~

            

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