"Today, I challenge you to 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!"
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Nocturne No. 1 in B Flat
A soft breeze
parts fluttering curtains,
strained
through blue moonlight,
a gasp of air
over the sill.
She lies half-awake
under the cool sheet,
naked
as if newly born.
Ghosts tremble
in leafy shadows,
on the far wall --
her young father,
a smiling grandmother,
and her scowling
husband,
bullet hole in his temple
dark,
empty.
Downstairs,
a clock chimes
three times,
disturbing
the liquid stillness...
for a second
she hangs in
the strange suspension
created by the sound's
silky wake,
not sure if she's
dead or alive,
held by a powerful
force or attraction
that feels like
a fierce love.
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