Music Free Verse Poems

Written: May 08, 2025 For contest by Brian Strand

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within the vastness of time and space
dwells in...

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Secret Love

You stay invisible, my person is harmful to you
Oh, lady, nobody knows our hidden relationship
I keep you in my shadow, soft love-blanket yours

Love you....

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Coming out of the Badlands,
That Louis Armstrong had passed on the radio.
Overshadowed for the moment by rugged landscape.

Landscape not unlike that in which he may...

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You carved your smile into my solitude, the chisel of your memory digging deep into the marble of silence,
Leaving orchids to bloom in the cracks...

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midnight dancer
 
the ballerina turned round and round
upon her pointed toes
to the gentle sound of the music box
before the lid was closed

i followed from a...

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When the night is filled with questions,
and the sky is a jeweled blanket,
I sit on the deck of my water room,
listening to the waves flirt...

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small in crowd or large
big and tall or mighty of them all
the ministry of music
the ministry of giving 
there are many ways we can serve...

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It was the year I became a free spirit
no longer a child with needs
now a teenager with wants

I went everywhere with my ghettoblaster
to listen to...

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There is lots of work to be done
But there is nothing to be won
There are people that I have to greet
And promises that I have...

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Inviting, like the first breath of spring,
energizing as the summer rain –
brisk like the winds of an autumn dream,
reviving as the sigh of a winter’s...

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Speak me your songs
and I'll reply with your bone's deepest chills,
your blood's chilling boiling point,
and your hearts shrilling aches...

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Join me for an evening
where a warm autumn breeze
brings us a symphony
blown through the trees.

Of crickets and their violins
to make up the strings,
and the frogs...

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Sam Mud
Mafia dawg
Prairie Rebel hound Soggy dog Carter 
Crumpled can of
Faces on a map
A map with lonely corners bent and creased
Roaring fish at opening
No more...

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the dog just put his head in my open hand 
so I gave some little ear scratches and comfort 
maybe I'll test out the technique...

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based on the song-tears of a clown by Iron Maiden
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afraid people will see your truth
  so you lived wearing a mask
a mask 
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