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Best Dulcimer Poems

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Premium Member Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens
"Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens"





I walk beside you 
in your dreams,
you are always in me 
warm and pounding, 
twin heart, 
burning bright flame, 
beautiful addiction
captive...

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Categories: dulcimer, desire, longing, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Mr. Lopez and Mr. Ayers
I flip the history of Bojangles
On a cool Sunday evening
Los Angeles coming down
A flow of oboes breathing
Through the lung of the street
The hobo not stopping...

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Categories: dulcimer, friendshiplove,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cocoon

"Cocoon"

They say...
a New World 
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind 

the old unaware, 
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect...

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Categories: dulcimer, muse,
Form: Narrative
Blame it on the Rain
"Blame it on the rain", for business 
on your sunny day, 
though it is a provider for you, 
you provide a poo poo.
World, obstain or...

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Categories: dulcimer, art, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Colourfication
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Categories: dulcimer, appreciation, beauty, color, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Babylonian Anthem
Thou, O king, hast made a decree, 
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, 
and all kinds...

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Categories: dulcimer, bible, patriotic, religious, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Spilt Milk
“Spilt Milk”



Warm milk 
before bedtime
spilt before sleep

The salty tear
in a body of work 
along the dark line kissed

steamed open
like an envelope
secrets laid bare

reveling in whispers
moist...

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Categories: dulcimer, dark, desire, dream,
Form: Free verse
Free Cee Death In D Flat
DEATH IN D FLAT

The song begins with a high note and ends on a low
And denotes the notes urged and surged in between
In the center...

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Categories: dulcimer, angst, cowboy-western, natural disasters,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member In the Drone, I Am One
On my lap, strings ring out their mesmerizing tones; dulcimer cries joyful tears at, Christmas time.
Mystical drones weep magical notes; 
tension fades to limp, sinewy...

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Categories: dulcimer, music, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Harmonic Elation
My guitar sings, it’s reverberating strings; dance with my fingers.

My dulcimer cries and whines; telling folk tales, centuries old.

One with the strings, their harmony brings...

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Categories: dulcimer, art, music, poems, poetry,
Form: Sijo
Compassion's Confinement
Compassion sings in velvet vibrato violin strokes, thrumming upon
an ivory frame suffused in dulcimer tones of need.

Half deaf we echo broken words, sharp jagged phrases,...

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© Ilona Rapp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dulcimer, faith, hope, humanity, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Nothing Left To Say
There is nothing left to say
Once the wind has blown away
All the leaves from their high nest
To its cradle in the west, 
Where the hills...

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Categories: dulcimer, history, philosophy, world, ,
Form: Rhyme
Free Cee Death In D Flat
DEATH IN D FLAT

The song begins with a high note and ends on a low
And denotes the notes urged and surged in between
In the center...

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Categories: dulcimer, fantasy, growing up, music,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Parody To Kubla Khan
Sacred River calls to my soul heart
Surrounded by woods that keep us apart
In Xanadu surrounded by incense a plenty,
I find my mind alive with memories...

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Categories: dulcimer, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Translating Gaias Heartbeat
Grow me some gourds and I will carve my drum and bead my shakers; mimicking Gaia’s heartbeat, 
I will envision a new world.

A cedar and...

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Categories: dulcimer, earth, environment, imagery, music,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things