Best Musical Instrument Poems

I wanted to be 
an electric guitar,
to vibrantly run my screams in
melodically riffs and solos...
Turning my pains into art...
But I'm just that... lone cello
how bitter and silent
dies of thirst in a corner
without performing any blues.... !...

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Surrounded by silence and draped with a linen sheet,
to keep dust from your natural sheen,
and protect you from direct sunlight;
not from the loneliness and gloominess of your night...


How thrilling and gratifying was to hear
the gleeful or moody notes,
when these careful fingers 
played an octave: ...

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A musical instrument my soul is 

Yearning to be tuned 

For

To perform heaven's symphony 

Under 

The direction of the divine!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
       26 April 2021
 

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My guitar sings, swings, dances
Those strings do-see-do; circle
Left, right, then form a big square
Tensions are released....

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harp 
to the mouth at the mic

on one side
the awe-maker
on the other side
the awestruck 

harp
to the ear at the air

invisibly gained
bleed the crowd...

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      jaw harp
  listen to my voice
it is your voice that I breath through, though
your secrets are whispered but by my arouse
  speak my thought
      o sing me



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beyond the cartoon spring in Scooby Doo
like a stag on a mountain’s rippled rove
a dimensional wormhole letting feelings through
bringing words of secrets, a couple’s love
an instrument whose song comes from within
a pluck, the kiss upon the lips
my meditation, a distant lawn mowing
bring me syllables served...

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there is something about 
the simplistic shape of a conundrum
an ancient voice in modern mouth
in cartloads for the few to quell
where ice finding comfort in flames
many a throat bending breath
singing like electric birds of paradise
fully charged and chirping
hum and twang and cooing purr
songbirds, my blackened...

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