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Cathleen Reeves
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The Nightengale
The Nightingale
Every night, as the moon rose, a woman's song pierced the dark, Full of joy and pain, joined together, softly, not stark.
The people in town were confused by her melody,
" Is she hurting?"
" Is she happy?"
"Why does it so affect me?"
Someone claimed she sang, for a lost love that was sleeping. She sits, still in her window, with only her hands wringing.
But, her song was not mournful, for folks declared, from their view,
"It fills me with longing unfullfilled."
"It moves me to embrace my lover."
"And, I, my brother too!"
So, nightly, she sang, on and on, bringing townsfolk together, with the yearning of her song.
One pale morning, the town heard that she had passed. How on earth would they live, if the song was not to last?
Yet, when darkness came, her song again filled the air. With growing uncertainty, folk ran to her house, but, she was not there.
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Just an empty window full of disembodied sound. It was her song of love that, still, carried on.
The town took a breath, and, then, had no doubt...
Love's song continuing, only one thought could bring about... they were not, afterall, lost...
but found.
Cathleen Reeves’s timeline
- June 2026
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07 SunReceived a critique
on Grief from @patrickgadoury
"The opening really worked for me. That moment of waking up and forgetting, just for a second, that the person isn’t safe in bed beside you anymore, that’s the real grief in the poem for me. Only thing I’d look at is the…" -
07 SunReceived a critique
on The Nightengale from @patrickgadoury
"I think prose / free verse was the right call for this. Once I’m in the poem, it’s easy to follow what’s happening, and it has this soft little fable thing going on, which I liked. The woman’s song, the town listening…" -
07 SunReceived a critique
on The Nightengale from @patrickgadoury
"I think prose / free verse was the right call for this. Once I’m in the poem, it’s easy to follow what’s happening, and it has this soft little fable thing going on, which I liked. The woman’s song, the town listening…" -
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06 SatReceived a critique
on School's Out from @Geezer
"sounds like a waking nightmare. Myself, I think I'd give it another shot, I've had enough good times that I think I would do it all over again, just to try and get it better this time; maybe a different life to work on…" -
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04 ThuReceived a critique
on Nobody's Hero from @Geezer
"I felt a deep connection to this one. Don't worry, we are all broken in some way, but we are family here. We will help you navigate and get the best of your work from you. We have many people that just read our work, ne…" -
04 ThuReceived a critique
on Nobody's Hero from @patrickgadoury
"I love how this starts. The premise has real teeth: telepathy as avoidance, power as isolation, losing sight as finally being forced into presence. Those first two lines already do what I think the rest needs more of: “…" -
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15 FriHighest posting month
May 2026 — 5 poems
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14 ThuReceived a critique
on The Art Of Letting Go from @Geezer
"reading the poem by BlueSkies, I read this and thought wow, it's like they both have had the same experience. Then, I was thinking back to my childhood and the chaos in our household when my mother and father fought. Th…" -
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08 FriReceived a critique
on Carnival Night from @Sen99
"Hello an enjoyable read, simple, accessible poem, with an almost melancholic sense thanks for share Sen99" -
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02 SatFirst publication
The Leaf
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02 SatJoined Neopoet
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First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
C.M.Reeves...I have been writing poems continuously since early February this year. I have 85 now and still going!
I am 75 and a retired therapist and theater
director. I enjoy staging a story now with words in verse.
There is a signal for poetry for which I am definitely a vessel and open to receiving...nearly daily, though I am new to it.
Nothing is published. I'm just looking for a place for it to potentially land other than Facebook, where I have been posting them in a profile I call Moments of Time in Rhyme.
I have come to love this art form, and I hope to spend what's left of my life pursuing it.
Location: Sacramento CA USA, USA
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Contest Wins
| Winning Submission | Contest | Contest Date |
|---|---|---|
| The Unanswered Phone Call | 05/26 Unanswered Phone Call | – |