Best Bach Poems

Johann Sebastian Bach
Found that bread gave him creative spark
He would eat a whole ciabatta
Then knock off a fugue and toccata

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His music, written centuries ago,
is still beloved and performed today:
cantatas, fugues, concertos, preludes, and
the mass in B – perhaps the greatest piece
of choral music ever to have been
composed. From soaring tones, the voices build
a sound cathedral, reaching to the sky.
The crucifixion’s deep despair and then
the...

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A humble name,
Trilling far beyond river
For his music
Flows into the grandest ocean
Leaving land
Aquiver


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-For Giorgio Veneto's Laconic Verse Contest...

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I crave the timeless peace and joy
This music often brings
To souls with whom the world would toy
And run around in rings.

Careless of mood, the master speaks
With string and pipe and voice;
No other strain my spirit seeks,
My Desert Island choice.

His counterpoint and melody
Shine through when days...

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Eden became a place of trespassing and disobedience
Love, however, never departed the Garden of Eden
I, The Everlasting God, have always had a plan

Eden became a place of trespassing and disobedience
Love, however, never departed the Garden of Eden
I, The Everlasting God, have always had a plan

Let...

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If you climb it you will find
harmony
and peace of mind

  Bach is powerful and deep
he will rock you
in your sleep

  in great concertos
like a fountain
flowing down from
Baroque Bach mountain....

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Memories of Bach

At 17, I performed a solo ballet to Bach
Below a sparkling sky,
On a park’s open green grass.
The choreography flowed.  
I was well-rehearsed.
The opportunity, special, before 
Some of our gathered city’s spectators.
This genius: Bach.
This glorious cantata:
 “Jesu,]oy of Man’s Desiring.”
And, I, the young...

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After Christmas comes Boxing Day
When mum carts the rubbish away
Like one of the boys
Dad plays with our toys
Day is done; what more can I say?...

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a song of myself

                           Pete Townshend feed back squealing

          ...

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my guitar strings 
were tightly wand 
as I leaned against 
the cellos hard surface
 
clinging hopelessly to the fullness 
of a familiar tune bellowing 
from a charming piano dazzled 
I was softly moved by the harps 

descant chanting upon 
thee unveiling of the violins 
motionless...

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BACH JS&JC
from a musical dynasty
along withJM&JL
a quartet so unusual...

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When you’re far away,
In another place,
Your heart is lonely,
Life is meaningless,
The room is empty.

If you’re abroad,
From east to west,
There’s culture shock,
You’re a stranger.

Get back where
You belong.

There’s no
Place like

Home....

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A contrapuntal harmony made from pure
singing mathematical light.
The music cannot be denied,
it flows on like a silk dragon
over rolling savanna.
The hairs in my ears begin to dance,
the notes are calling out prismatic stars,
not the ones we see
but suns born in the shadowy cells 
of our...

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Lute

Curved, inviting, light,
it has the look of antique ships,
a galleon bulge of straight-grained woods.
Fretful cat-gut cords
coiled taut by silver screws
above the calibrated neck
conceal a thousand foot-pound pirouette.
Child of Sirocco and Spain,
veils, fans, brocade, and lace,
olive, vine, and orange surprise,
its plangent sound irrigates the moonlit air
peeks...

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Apollo seeks worship.
What shall you write
to honor love. That ye
Sickened may heal.
That songs shall speak
With lyrics that are truest
to there music.
Honor ye oh God
With harmony and melody.
Honor ye father truest
To perfection.
Ye Apollo's am God
And the sounds of
reheasted people have
made Compositions
there priority and duty.
Honor ye Apollo...

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