Titia is interested in photography, poetry, family, art, dogs, cats, insects, wildlife, history, war, camping, writing, and the environment.

My Encounter with a Nightingale

One night, long time ago, I walked the dogs around midnight. I live in the midst of nature's beauty and that night I had an encounter with the beautiful sound of a nightingale. That's why I put the video in. If you let it play while reading the poem, you'll hear what I heard that night.

The Silence Rhapsody

Tonight I heard silence again,
I walked my dogs and it was then
in the darkest dark of night,
nature had polished all stars so bright
that I stood still in open land,
dimmed the flashlight in my hand.
Even the dogs I didn't hear,
a moment that I hold most dear
when nature plays its symphony,
sometimes I think only for me -

The Silence Rhapsody.

Tonight I heard her song again,
I listened for a while and then
a little bird was joining in
and I got goosepimples on my skin.
So pure a sound was seldom heard,
a duet between silence and a bird.
I stood frozen to the ground,
this place to live that I have found
I wouldn't know where else to be,
when nature plays its symphony -

The Silence Rhapsody

© 2017 Titia Geertman

Comments

Titia Geertman (author) from Waterlandkerkje - The Netherlands on January 31, 2018:

Thanks Louise Powles for your comment. Yes Nightingales are beautiful, but we don't hear them too much where I live.

Louise Powles from Norfolk, England on January 31, 2018:

That's a lovely poem. Nature is wonderful, isn't it? I love the video of the Nightingale's singing. It's so beautiful.