A Silver Nocturne

A silver moon shines

A silvery voice echoes

Singing solitary serenades.

Tis better to love not

Than to love and hurt

In hearts' most treacherous trades.

Promises - an ancient relic

Moonlight's promise best kept.

Pity not the heart encaged

The silver bars love and protect.

This Spring (2017) I am committing to handwritten snippets of poetry wherever I can find the space to write. Letters and Pieces (2017) is a 30 poem collection written impromptu (according to prompts given by NaPoWriMo.net) throughout the month of April (2017) for National Poetry Writing Month. As days go by, the Index for Letters and Pieces will grow.

Day 17: Today's poem is - prompted by NaPoWriMo.net " write a nocturne. In music, a nocturne is a composition meant to be played at night, usually for piano, and with a tender and melancholy sort of sound. Your nocturne should aim to translate this sensibility into poetic form!"

I gave my nocturne a silver tone.