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Librettos Poems - Poems about Librettos

Premium MemberGrandpop and Grandma pop

... Image # 1 

 My dear grandpop and grandma pop
 Took a short vacation   
I remember how my mom felt
Full of frustration

Mom depended on them so much
Bab...
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Categories: librettos, age, fun,
Form: Other

Premium MemberMaestro - POTD

...Maestro – 4-23-24
Dedicated to Dr. Stanley Chapple.  Co-founder of Tanglewood. Conductor of the London Philharmonic.   Head of the Music School University of Washington.  Conductor of the University...
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Categories: librettos, music, tribute,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLyrical Acrolect

...P o e t r y fills my heart 
with lyrical acrolect:
slowly swaying 
my fingers
   to outstanding octaves, 
through 
  ecstatic 
  liberated librettos, 
uplifting in a 
  med...
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Categories: librettos, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEthereal

..."At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said or written."  Rumi

Lyrics of loneliness liberate in a lucid langua...
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Categories: librettos, assonance, death, loss,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberThe Language of Blue

...The Language of Blue

Sinking into the lyrical language of blue
Prime layers of still solitude speak
 With muted voices
  In sapphire soprano rhapsodies,
Lines of bass blushes, electric flecks ...
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Categories: librettos, blue, language, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLyric

...Lyric

Life’s longing to sing out -
Lovely or lamenting,
Lively in lusty breaths,
Liberates lonely hearts,
Librettos live in love,
Limber lines of stage light
Lyrical luxury.

10-26-20
Con...
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Categories: librettos, poetry,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberTurning the Flow

...you release my quill from dried out surrender

          spell from a fountain of compassion and hope

                    poet tree in motion when blanks fill my space

book end of beginnings ...
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Categories: librettos, anniversary,
Form: Free verse

Vera Pavlova Translations

...Vera Pavlova English Translations of Russian Poems

I shattered your heart;
now I limp through the shards
barefoot. 
—Vera Pavlova, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter...
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Categories: librettos, autumn, seasons, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse

Political Music

...Distant piano music,
or is it the speech of a banjo
unearthed from some attic prison?
Wait, do I hear a flügelhorn moaning, 
or is that a different conversation?

Brahms plucks at his peppery b...
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Categories: librettos, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberMusic of a Poet's Soul

...A Poet....

  Feels the very pulse of life!
      Hears its crescendos and librettos 
          Composes them into words divine
              And, if well-penned....
                  Touches a...
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Categories: librettos, beautiful, poets,
Form: Free verse

Think Spring

...Now, unlike my usually trenchant literary librettos, i regale the unknown (tum me) reader for savoir faire articulation, elocution, and indomitable tour de force proffered by spectrum of bounteous ex...
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Categories: librettos, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Imagism

The Poems Face

...I am drizzled from thoughts that the heart footholds
With words of wisdom which are pure as gold

And as I form into an underlying phrase
Every sentence takes it’s own place

With rhymes of wor...
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Categories: librettos, cool, crazy, creation,
Form: Free verse

Follow the Poet

...Follow the poet to the bottom
Their scrivened souls lead there
Electric verbs and climatic curves
Stoking notions of hoisted up hairs

Winding down the patchy canyon
To laurel beds on librettos...
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Categories: librettos, poems,
Form: Rhyme

The All Power Is Greater

...THE ALL POWER IS GREATER!

The Big Bang designed the stratosphere and troposphere.
Below both majestic presence, Earth is the topography.
Today, all God’s creature roams freely.
Human bei...
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Categories: librettos, age, appreciation, blessing, god,
Form: Free verse

Does the World Need Another Sestina?

...Bloody, bloody Ezra Pound
I never got my head around
his magnum opus: The Cantos
I’ve tried so hard but goodness knows
he didn’t intend it to be easy
for me or his mate Mussolini.

Perhaps obs...
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Categories: librettos, funnyme,
Form: Sestina

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