To The Silent Night Poem by Ravi Panamanna

Night!
Thee, a sleeping beauty –
across the blues
and over the endless dales

Night!
Thee, a soulful song –
of the forest nightingale,
across the slumbering hills
and over *Nila’s silent whirls.

Night!
Thee, a dancing sonnet –
of the world of dreams,
from the depth of space
unto the silent stars
and melting into moonlight.

Night!
Thee, nature’s fiddle –
playing the silver streaks,
sailing unto the shores of sleep,
trickling into the stillness air,
and lending the world
a stream of solemn moments.

Night!
Thee, a pool of dream,
gliding in the crescent moon,
where mercuric angels dance
when the spring girl of the forest
weds the little brook yonder
and brings a little archangel
to my parish little hut.
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Dear readers: This is an old composition. This dates back to April 1981.

*Nila - Popularly known as the river 'Bharathapuzha' which is the living throb of my state Kerala.