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The Sound of the Nightingale

December 12, 2015
By Lydiah DIAMOND, Manhattan Beach, California
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Lydiah DIAMOND, Manhattan Beach, California
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"beauty is truth, truth beauty" - john keats

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This morning I awoke to the sound of
the nightingale.
I felt something of death within myself.
I was wearing a midnight blue sweater,
which by and by sunk into the bed covers
of the same coloration.
I could hardly breathe.

Birdsong is chaotic and quaint,
unarranged and radiant,
a jazz experiment, in the style of Sun Ra
perhaps; and fittingly presenting itself at sunrise.
One thinks of birds and thinks of spring;
but I love winter’s birds the best,
for it is they who sing
as death surrounds them. 

© Brett C., Spartanburg, SC

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