Nightingale
Kathy A. Wittman 1949 (Tennessee)
The essence of your soul was captured that day
as you rested regally in your wheelchair,
singing praises to your King
amidst the tumultuous babble of your captive audience:
frail people, broken in their bodies, minds, and spirits,
vacantly staring far beyond their dismal, mundane prisons.
Momentarily we transcended Earth's boundaries
as we watched your spirit soar to heights unknown.
We caught a glimpse of Heaven in your ebony eyes,
glistening with joyous anticipation of your deliverance.
While I listened to your sweet, mellow alto voice,
I heard you proclaim the depths of birth, death, and rebirth
rendered by familiar, almost-forgotten spirituals of long ago,
and I knowingly smiled at the thought of your secret rapture.
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Submitted by kaleidoscopickat on May 01, 2011
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 717 |
Words | 116 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8 |
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