Best Background Poems

This enlisted soul
At eighteen years old
Barely a man
Not even street wise told

From the proms, to the camp
He kits out tomorrow
His future he stamps
Never knowing bloodied sorrow

In just under a year
He's older and wiser
To a theatre so different
Says his military adviser

Overseas he heads
Thoughts of back home
What...

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Piano music plays.
Soft notes emote mid air,
like tear-stung doves they fly 
in atmosphere of fog.
The clouds, they shroud the sky. 

Piano music plays, 
the keys, they seize my blues—
the depth of blue, so vast.
Poetic ivories 
harassed… recite the past. 

Piano music plays.
Dull echoes haunt the...

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In the asphalt homeland 
I lay down to sleep 
   In the background 
a saxophone wails
  and relaxes tired muscles 
Streetlights cut through the darkness
    The day has passed 
as days do 
   This city dweller 
wishes...

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My life was so exciting and busy, but still I was dissatisfied,
For my job was going nowhere, like blooms with noplace to hide.

I had for long had a dream, of becoming a world famous singer,
But instead I sang backup, for my best friend, a real...

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The universe is in your eyes
(It exists in processing; God's the background)
After this life, the energy Pole - and the eyes -
Allow Consciousness Pole to arise
They are always together, Dear Heart!
Like background ( or SPACE itself) in art
As crucial as Foreground (the details, the stage)
WE...

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Sometimes a soft and most pleasant serene melody,
other times a full blown out all scale orchestrated symphony,
but always depicting Nature and Wildlife not only accuratly,
but also radiantly beautiful in its magnificence musically, 
the way Nature and Wildlife is always heard by me,
whenever Nature and Wildlife...

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"Waltz Across Texas With Me"
Comes violining through my mind.
I may be the only one in the world
With background music of that kind.

Ever since I was a little shaver
The background music's been there
But when I mention it to others
They just raise an eyebrow and stare.

It's not...

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Andrew Wesley Legan does not publish poems online. Just responding here to a comment, because I don't publish poems and would not like to be associated with someone else's poetry... There are multiple Andrew Legan on internet. If I published poems they would be about...

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My background story is that I was born to be a lover
Because I’m the only child of my Dads and my Mothers
I cry sometimes even though I’m grown
Just to get my way because that’s all I have ever known

I’m not a dreamer but I am...

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A posture of integrity
A sunset in the background
A conquest left behind
A sea of fire to come back

A woman turned its back on it
A boy cried in her arms
A fleck in her cheek
A run to the street

A desperate cry
A bomb inside
A child in need
A useless creed

Alas!...

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So,
if you 
like to play 
music while you
make love; choose
a live album – you’re 
guaranteed to get some 
applause every five minutes...

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waves of silver foam
crashing, roaring, call me home
where i once belonged...

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Oh universe ye tellst to us thy tale,
thy megaphone part of a second old
fills all the vacuum in microwave
throughout the space ye darest to unfold.

So then more time passed than words might describe,
diverted by their dating with the stars
thy low cry was lost "electronics noise",
forgivest...

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If God did not play Hide & Seek with us
We would see GOD, all of God, nothing else!
So He hides, then gets more elaborate at hiding;
To humans He seems reluctant to be found - as it were -
Those who seek in earnest, will find Him
Because...

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I
What grabs human attention?
The same things that bats & birds attend
"What's moving," not what's at peace, still
"The dangers," not the rest of vast sea
"Foreground," not Foundations, 'background'
So too, with space and sky, we see light, not space

II
Like bat, bird, tables - we are molecules
Molecular structure...

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