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Famous Classical Music Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Classical Music poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous classical music poems. These examples illustrate what a famous classical music poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Rich, Adrienne
...our blood. Repeats itself. 

Inscribes with its unreturning stylus
the isolation it denies. 


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The classical music station
playing hour upon hour in the apartment 

the picking up and picking up
and again picking up the telephone 

The syllables uttering
the old script over and over 

The loneliness of the liar
living in the formal network of the lie 

twisting the dials to drown the terror
beneath the unsaid word 


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The technology of silence
The ...Read more of this...



by Bukowski, Charles
...I can remember starving in a 
small room in a strange city 
shades pulled down, listening to 
classical music 
I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife 
inside 
because there was no alternative except to hide as long 
as possible-- 
not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: 
trying to connect. 

the old composers -- Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, 
Brahms were the only ones who spoke to me and 
they were dead. 

finally, starved ...Read more of this...

by Bukowski, Charles
...I will lay here for six
days, my three cats hungrily ripping the flesh
from my elbows, wrists, head 
the radio playing classical music ... 
I promised myself never to write old man poems
but this one's funny, you see, excusable, be-
cause I've long gone past using myself and there's
still more left
here at 3 a.m. I am going to take this sheet from
the typer
pour another glass and
insert
make love to the fresh new whiteness 
maybe get lucky
again 
first fo...Read more of this...

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