Nightingale’s Melody

January 25, 2023

City lights turned off, roads emptied,
flash of moon glow illuminated the eyes.
Stream of honey flowed in her throat,
in the darkest hour, heard an irresistible
nightingale’s melody.
Kneeled by my wounded heart, feathers caressed
sunken cheeks,
was comatose for years, thoughts drifting
towards a bleak landscape.Euphonious sound in the midst of suffering,
repaired my dead cells, the melody was comforting.
Slept on her lap, provided me enough warmth,
love re-birthed me, trauma crept away,
the song continued.
The night is leaving, the day knocked at my door,
a harmonious voice, the nightingale is gone.
Stream of nightingale’s melody!

 

Pamela A.Babusci

Pamela A. Babusci is an internationally award-winning haiku/tanka poet and haiga artist. Some of her awards include the Museum of Haiku Literature Award and the First Place Mount Fuji Tanka Contest (Japan). Her cover art has graced the books of Full Moon Tide, The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards, Taboo Haiku, Take Five: Best Contemporary TankaVol.1, The Delicate Dance of Wings, Chasing the Sun: selected haiku from HNA 2007 and moonbathing: a journal of women' s tanka. Pamela's haiga have been featured here at Haigaonline, and on The Haiku Foundation, Simply Haiku, Frameless Sky and numerous haiku and tanka journals.

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