Best Cantatas Poems

Music 

Mystical labyrinth of twisting harmonic warnings
Gazing into infinity’s composing handiwork –
 Moonbeams in silver sung sonatas –
  Ivory hued cantatas resolved from heart...

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Wan is the hiemal world outdoors, 
The biting breeze blows bitter,  
like a blizzard building in momentum, 
Cold creeps in through the closed windows,
But...

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Operetta

Opaline arias glow in moonlight
Shimmers in the whip-poor-will’s reminisce,
Opalescent anthems silvery delight
On the still waters, moonbeams leave a kiss.

Iridescent serenade sonatas
Echo across sleek undulating swells
Choruses...

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Sleigh bells jingle as o'er the crystal snow they glide,
To the little country church this Christmas Eventide.
Folks anticipate the fellowship that awaits them there,
As they...

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A combination of Prose and Free Verse:

The most thrilling and inspirational piece of music ever to reach my 
ears is, without doubt, Handel's Messiah. I've...

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Sleigh bells jingle as o'er the snow they glide,
To the little country church this Christmas Eventide.
Folks anticipate the fellowship that awaits them there,
As they celebrate...

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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...

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The winter brings short, frigid days,        
but we can find so much to praise
when sun’s bright and the...

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I love the sights and sounds of Christmastime.
The gifts, bright decorations, scrumptious meals,
cantatas, carolers--all are sublime,
all integral to how this season feels.

To nurture Christmas thoughts...

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The winter has in store a vast supply
        of church cantatas, Christmas gifts, and joy;
   ...

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Awaiting your smile

A dark and gloomy morning
sits outside my window
as my horizon awaits your smile,
so another wonderful
spring day can begin
where meadowlarks sing
dawning cantatas
and morning glories
open...

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MUSIC

M -elody's moonbeams
U-nleash silver sonatas
S -erenades soft dreams,
I-vory hued cantatas,
C-hords shimmer harmonic themes

5-17-21
Contest" Tankacrostic
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...

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Bach Cantatas in a morning rise
Allegro adagio crescendo
Violin serenades on moon lit tides

Scared of you, lost in you
You make my heart shudder
Life is different with...

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Vera Pavlova English Translations of Russian Poems

I shattered your heart;
now I limp through the shards
barefoot. 
—Vera Pavlova, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter? a beast.
Spring?...

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