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Ode to a Nightingale....... II

(With due apologies to John Keats for the title) . My heart pines for one that flew away, . Life's sweet melodies meant to stay, Songs it sang made times fade away, To take the weary traveller far away, My heart pines for one that flew away, . There was something with this ingenue, As she held listeners to her trancic cue, A mystical spell that bound all but a few, Voice that still rings refusing to bid adieu. . Unspoken love of an adolescent youth, Too shy to say by word of the mouth, In actions would have been so uncouth, So silence the way to cut love's tooth . Is it a cuckoo from the garden of eden, Or tranquility descended from heaven, Or is the soft touch of a gentle maiden, For the woebegone, a blissfull haven. . Like a head after a long drunken night, Like a body after a belaboured fight, A long journey with no end in sight, Mind aches after this songbird's flight. . My heart pines for one that flew away, My heart pines for one that flew away.

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  1. AnonymousThursday, November 01, 2012 10:45:00 PM

    What a futile longing for the present that is past today! All the time running after its own shadow...
    See the irony...we miss something that we never got!
    The very fact that light has a speed, we can see only the past...
    We start with 'N' and by the time we reach the "w".... N is ancient history! Who is this "Now" ?

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