Music Free Verse Poems

The muses dance.

They never stop,

not even when

you turn the music off.

They are not selective,

they never desert,

they always whisper

even when unheard.

You think you are alone,

the only...

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The music was loud,

the way I like it,

when you first nervously

held out your hand,

when the shuffled-playlist

ballad started,



and I hesitated

for a brief moment,

as time slipped like...

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LOS SONIDOS DE LOS DRUMS DEL RÍO-verso francés Parte 3
THE SOUNDS OF THE RIVER DRUMS-FRENCH VERSE  PART 3


SONIDOS DE LOS TAMBORES DEL RÍO
COMO EL...

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SONIDOS DE LOS TAMBORES DEL RÍO
COMO EL SONIDO DEL BEAT VA, TUM, TUM, TUM
A medida que el sonido del tambor late boom, boom y boom
Corriente...

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THE SOUNDS OF THE RIVER DRUMS---part 1

AS THE SOUND OF THE BEAT GOES, TUM, TUM, TUM
As the sound of the drum beats boom, boom, boom
Running...

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Rhythm of rainbow the morose mélange
Bleeding colors sucked from torn clouds
Rainstorm rinses the tinge of broken heart
Shades of dark paints frayed linen of love.

Requiem of...

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Buried Sadness

smiles  floats away
a gaze drifts to empty places
forest of mist covered canopy
no pathways
childhood meadows lost
embers with no glow


buried, yet infinity lingers
beauty tender, soft...

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Desert Daughter

She had a daughter in the desert:

A daughter who lived near the mountains and palms
She loved to take beautiful photos of flowers and birds
Hike...

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Music is more slave to fashion
  —than the written or spoken word

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)
...

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True love happens once in a lifetime
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
In the silence between the delightful
Syncopated rhythms of two beating hearts.

True love...

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Hello, I am an invisible girl behind poetic words,
and known in every land for my bleeding ink; I dwell
behind self-imposed walls in a place silent...

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R. Kelly

I have faith ...
You will get yours
There is balance in the Universe
One of these days, you and those like you

Will pay for the pain...

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Looking around her at all of the strangers
doesn’t know where she is
doesn’t know the faces around her
and as their smiles turn into a horror
it’s in...

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The verdant forest uniquely so mystic
wears the shroud of surreal stillness.
When you enter with the rippling breeze
its essence enthralls your sublime soul
with the sense of...

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Lost myself in this crowd
I’m trying to find you 
I’m feeling my way 
My vision is gone

So many hands 
Touching my body
But yours are the...

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1/10/19

Hesitation

Drum, drum, drum, drum, 
The beating of the hearts, 
The air dense with uneven breaths,
Hesitation.

Intimate faces but strangers now
What a twist 
Of chances that we...

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Wild irises are the exquisite painted nails of mother nature’s perfect hands…

Wild irises open as purple baskets catching the rain for slender stalks of fresh...

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I sit in my leaf sea
relishing in their acceptance
of whatever comes next.

I sit under a gray sky,
pondering her unwavering confidence,
blowing to her own music.

I sit...

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I sit here in ruin with 
my music,  bass turned 
Up and  BOOMING. Food on the stove
And stewing.  I might be slightly
High...

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Her hands, crevices embedded in their skin, 
touch the thorns.The maroon petals, they are dropping to the table's 

cherry bark surface. They are like silk...

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