The Nightingale’s Song 

Perching on the dried out somewhat fragile branch,

I am attired in plain brown grandeur atop my rusty brown pants, veiling my pallid bottom.

In an accustomed migratory demeanor with the best decorum of an itinerant lover,

I render a tuneful, lyrical and sweet sounding ode, sung in mellifluous high and low pitches to nothing more than her utmost delight.

Innately endowed with the soprano, alto, tenor and bass choral tunes,

I whistle with trilling and gurgling notes.

Notes that romantically convey my nocturnal intents and proposals.

Mellifluent notes that take her even much deeper into an alluring estrous cycle.

Joseph C Ogbonna is a widely published poet. Some of his works have been published by Spillwords Press, Waxpoetry magazine, Written Tales magazine, North of Oxford, Doublespeak, Synchronized Chaos, PoetryXhunger, SoulfulValley, the International human rights arts movement, Empower Magazine, India, Poetrysoup and more than a dozen anthologies. He was a columnist for a magazine in India. He is also the winner of three poetry contests. 

His poems, ‘Napoleon to Josephine and Josephine to Napoleon,’ were both aired by the BBC Radio 3 to mark the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte. He lives in Enugu, Nigeria.