Best Schumann Poems

Mother Earth beheld
wonders man’s mind held,
of unvoiced intent
seeking soul’s ascent.

Our fervent cries heard,
Divine Mother stirred,
enlivening form
by bliss currents warm.

Heart is the centre
where bliss beats canter
but...

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Composers Schumann husband&spouse
music filled their marital house
Clara an infant prodigy
Robert with musical urgency...

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I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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"MOTHER" 

Mother Earth 
is Crying

Her heart is breaking
Earth is shaking violently

She is hurt and 
She is angry

Her tears no longer reign
Oceans...

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Jingle!
She has a bracelet on    Hear it?
Jingle!
When she tells her friend how concert-hip she is it
Jingles!
Quaking little cupids. trolls and other creatures...

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Dominica
Gawaine Caldwater Ross

We share melons and papayas
beneath a sun benevolent.
A salty breeze, the river is cool,
and the passion flower blossoms
are fragile but rich. We stroke
their...

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Villanelle: Who's afraid of the Virgin Wolf's wisdom tooth

(As unlikely as it may sound, this happens to be the TRUTH: the foremost French journalist, André...

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Sweet dreams, to you, my precious child,
May you frolic in the meadow of a fairyland.—
Let angels keep your sleep beguiled,
As o'er your cradle doth the...

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ROMANCE

It was something by Schumann    or    Schubert
A Sonata for piano perhaps

I wouldn’t have cared
But the music fit the girl
Flawless...

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I freely admit I love classical music,
And please don't think me a snob
If I keep my composure
When I mention composers
As Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Schumann,
And...

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Peeling Back the Bubble Wrap

Peeling back the bubble wrap on the ancient of days, 
Back to when Nixon was still presiding,
He, leading with paranoid deliberations,...

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We all hear Rachmaninov and Chopin
Plus Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, and Schumann 
But it’s unfair, I say
That no one will play
That great composer who’s just known...

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Musclan Cesar Cui
part Russo-French was he
A composer& critic voice
Schumann his favoured choice...

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Manipura chakra to jugular notch alive
Cognised by soma nectar dripping
Toroidal rapture in heart gripping
Entwining thus becoming a bliss hive

We look around; each follows their path
Energised...

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The March equinox ushers spring
Mating urges to mammals brings
Nightingale melody sings

Greener is forest foliage
Eyes gleam, irrespective of age
As life reveals, a new page

Liken spring to...

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