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Synergy Writing Contest ~ Poetry Entry

Nocturne

The eye of heaven sets....like music at the close

And puts to rest, at last, to rest

The final fierce and ruddy rays of day.

Then the velvet quietude of night descends

And presses close and cold and gray,

Then black, against the window’s rimes.

The fireplace frames the burning pyre

And the flames, and pops and hisses of the logs

Conjure secret longings and desires.

Ah, such sweetness and such light!

As shades and phantoms dance and sway

Winged dreams soar in their nocturnal flight

On their way to dwell and be

In solemn shades of endless night,

In nether-worlds of Myth, of Magic

And of Mystery.

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