Best Sung Poems

sung buddhist prayers
released afloat spring rivers
    a skyward mist



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on March 5, 2018 for contest HAIKU, THEME: WATER  sponsored by MICK TALBOT...

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(ABC - Rhymed)

As I now dream your bright beauty does shine,
before me an Angel of love divine.
Calm in my heart as your song it is sung,
deep within my heart love's bell it is rung.
Enveloping our love the moon shines bright,
forever you are beauty to my...

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O harlot of colored scarlet hath divided the spoils
The wealthy, well oiled, prophesy uncertainty 
Thee measures of  barley spoil not the oil or wine
heavenly leaven is unmeasured, care to take a wager
A bird in hand of human man, faith is in the bush
O little...

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I liked the soft songs sung by Bread,
a group whose lyrics filled my head,
for each day from my radio
I’d hear their music sweetly flow.

At night, relaxing on my bed,
I liked the soft songs sung by Bread.
I’d sing along while listening to
songs like “If” and “Make...

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Your e-mail engraves a smile while opening its contents.
I wanted to reply, to share a thought, 
but my daughter reminds me during that curiosity, 
an obligation to buy new shoes.

Being careful not to lose this thought in the pocket where I found my keys,
I placed...

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Sung in the key of our love


Dancing an evening of splendor
You in my arms for a while
Lips that now beg me surrender
Blushing a euphoric smile

Melodies waft in emotions
Spinning as harmonies flow
Endless the moonlit devotions
Bound now as one in its glow

Silhouette patterns are swaying
Soft on this...

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"Sung In"



We are notes 
on the tongue 
of God 

Each of us words
in a never ending 
sentence

Music is math
God breathes us in 
out of Time

We are but droplets
past and present
participles

wet behind the ears
unable to hear 
the full melody

of
"what is this song?"

We move 
punched out 
perfect...

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Tears that
Sings upon contact
Of long-ago songs
Of grief and joy.
We forgot the words
And the music
And even their existence
But the tears remembered.
Encased in each droplet before
Connecting on a surface
And exploding in a thousand
More drops and
The music flies free.
Rain....

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You say that you want me but I don't believe 
as I sit in your silence uncovering me 
over thinking that you would even seldom think   
my tumultuous waters were worth a small drink   
   
I'm busted and broken and all sorts of...

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“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song

Courtesy Robert Burns
circa  (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the Ploughman Poet.

Two hundred sixty one orbitz elapsed
since brief existence of aforementioned
Scottish poet and lyricist graced Earth,
yet his legacy unwittingly still
enshrined,...

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Anticipation,
faces sparkling,
wrinkles smiling,
memories at the ready.

Friends inter-mingling, while great grandchildren run through the gathering crowd.
Sun streaking through branches, warming joints, and turned up faces seeking the rare appearance of the coastal sun.

The growing color of gray cropped heads blot out the distant green scape as...

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THE ERLKING

[NARRATOR]
Who's riding so late through night so wild?
It is the father who holds his child.
He keeps the boy held close with his arm:
He clasps him tightly, he keeps him warm.

[FATHER]
My son, why hide you your face in such fear?

[SON]
Oh, father, see! The Erlking is...

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Please, turn the music down
And keep your voices low;
There’s a new song I’m hearing now
In a voice that’s soft and clear:
It’s the One who’s always been with me . . .
He’s walking closer now.

I’ve lost all things I’ve ever owned:
I cannot bring Him gifts
Or sing...

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A duet sung alone

I know now how confusing 'twas to find 
That I loved my love walking one-way street, 
Knowing, she seldom with my love was lit, 
Her heart was but with love of friendship lined, 
Whilst silent was my love, clueless it came, 
Hers,...

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C, C, D, D and a F for you!
Everyone is failing. There's still one A, it's true!
Barry Bright. Barry Bright.
A shining light! He's Barry Bright!
Sitting in the front seat, 295 I.Q.
" I know the answer before the teachers ever do!"

He slips into the first desk,
slide...

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