Madrigals Poems | Examples

On Crenshaw

on crenshaw 
carousing in cavernous cafes 
slicing into earthen skin
the meat dancers bring it to a boil
they murder the rug
they scrounge for earth worms
the fish head girls bob like sea birds
telephoning purple mermaids for a date 
they have no name tags and no flowers
they sing sad madrigals to the starfish 
they know this is the last pavane 
the final curtsy before night goes down
before morning arises under white sheets 
loosening the brain screws 
burning the instruction manuals
imbibing the nylon remonstrations
on crenshaw
a lonely woman croons 
an oozing torch song to the dirt people
they sit erect in a dark morgue 
chittering like insects
singing cool blues music to the meat dancers
they bring it to a boil 
with burgers bullets and beef cake 
genius guitar freak vivisects clawing time
he twangs his axe with a searing solo
he plays psychedelic lullabies to the dead 
his music torturing the earth worms

On Beach Grass

Praise be unto waves,
rising as the surf warms up;
Join hands and voices;

Pitch pipe is ruffling 
the spirit that lay dormant;
Higher vibration;

Underlying breeze 
raises the hairs on your neck;
Windy rosary;

A hymn of the sea,
sitting in pews made of sand;
Full congregation;

Reporting for high noon Mass
with madrigals on beach grass.

Lyrics and Music

Fingers intertwined in 
  wondrous oneness
  together foreverness
  breathtaking bliss

Eye to eye in
   lyrical longing
   melodic memories
   soul symmetry

Backs turned to 
  bygone brokenness 
  solitary sanctums
  heartbroken hibernation

Face to face in 
  aromatic anecdotes 
  possibility potpourri
  enmeshed essences

Voices join in
  rondos of rendezvous 
  chorales of compatibility 
  madrigals of mutuality 
  
Heart to heart in
  a fulcrum of fulfillment 
  a seesaw of serendipities 
  a trapeze of timelessness

Lips engaged in 
  passion's pendulum
  voluptuous vocabularies
  intoxicating innuendoes

     She is lyrics and I am music
           ~ harmonizing a hypnotizing love song ~
a dizzying duet of delight

Tranquility

Undulating hills and mountains
As far as meets the eye,
Towering pines that seem to kiss 
The clouds in the azure sky.
Birds sing their madrigals,
While a brook murmurs nearby,
Its crystal water gently flowing
On a pebbled bed bordered by
Green grass gracefully swaying
To the breeze’s quiet sigh.

Blossoms of various hues,
Dot the foliage here and there
While bees and butterflies flit 
From bud to bud with care.
A leaf falls from its branch
And seems to hang midair
As if Time stopped for a while
For the whole world to prepare
For this one, exact moment
And bring everyone to prayer.

But this is real tranquility:
When you’re sleeping late at night, 
I pause and put down my pen
To watch you breathe in subdued light 
And gaze at your angelic face;
And then I feel my mind take flight
To fancy and to fairyland
Where all is beautiful and bright.
For by you alone am I inspired
To pick my pen and poems write.

April 15, 2023

Blue News

We need a black shiny piano
a golden Sax,
a smoky mind drinking blue air.

Outside a mythical speak-easy
train wrecks are on a loop.
The green dollar of a once green dream
has become a sickly chihuahua
on life-support.

Here in this jazz club for one
mood songs write themselves;
a dark and comfortable love
poured from a cut-glass reality.

In that other world,
where wars rage, and rage wars
there is nothing but blue news.

Here we are deep velvet,
a slow croon of nocturnal madrigals
reprised under the low light
of an electric moon.

Blue Stone

Blue Stone

Sagittarius piano fingers waltzing splendidly upon my laptop.
I can hear your nervous ticking heart clapping and tapping—
Collapsing there— as the meat philosophers send their brocades— 
You never told me your name— whether real or frequently imagined—
As you came through my back door with nyloned legs shaking,
Your virgin-scented pearls shining inside my blue-eyed machinations,
Your curious feeders seeking certain electric favors with lip gloves.
Now you give your blue stone to me as one would gift a rich beggar,
To regale the climes with thousand island cadenzas and madrigals.
Sagittarius piano fingers dancing like salad fire upon my laptop.

When March Alights

Bloom
of green 
leaf cascade
spring citrus whiff
bird cheep and lamb bleat 
madrigals swirl
snowdrops on
winter
blight

Date originally posted on Poetry Soup
 ; 17th April 2021

 Date posted for this contest ; 13th August 2022

This work has been howmanysyllables verified

Call For Joy

Why do you cry?
Did you not know that the lion of Judah lives!
Because he lives no darkness shall scare us anymore
Every aurora brings with it hope.

Can you not hear the jubilee of shepherds?
The joyous madrigals they sing in unison with angels
Come across the fields with me
To join their happy throng.

For indeed we have been given cause to laugh
To rejoice and make merry!
 For this, His Son, is heaven’s divine lamb
And brings with him salvation for all mankind!

Divine Rhapsody

Mint ripple spasm cool shrouds pulse my sprig fount 
I shriek at cusp of dawn cricket hymn sheet peep 
lambent cosmos vivid hues splash lilac wisps 
upon my psychic visual wellspring blind float 
golden petal yellow bird magnolia 
I hoard as eye floss gemstone centrepiece 
nirvana’s mauve lip step ladder an archway    
to ecstatic rush reed  clustered gateway’s hasp 
inner self kaleidoscopic cartwheel swerves 
sketch nightingale bone marrow spine chill belle chants 
Yet the honeysuckle pastel strewn mead I 
plod unveils ear worm madrigals of pure bliss.


Date submitted : 15th September 2020

Contest Title : Pick-A-Title, Vol 22- Lyric 2-

   NA Poem  :  Divine Rhapsody 

       Sponsor :  Edward Ibeh 

       Judged :  24/9/20



Poetry Contest : Second Chances for NA in Any contest during September 2020

Date submitted : 30/9/2020

        Sponsor   :  Chantelle Anne Cooke

Poetry Soup Grammar Checker Verified

Sweet Spring

Here comes Spring, sweeter than ever,
Come everyone and let us sever,
Sunlight finally returns in great mass,
The deer leaps on the tall grass, 
Can you hear the trees speaking,
All the flowers are springing, 
Ice breaks and the waterfalls cascade down,
Rivers smoothing out the soapy pebbles now, 
Jolly ducks take a bath in the warm lake,
Frogs leaping on the lily pads as they shake,
Dragonflies and butterflies discover the new season,
Listen there, villagers dance with good reason,
Singing madrigals, beating drums and shaking tambourines,
Honey tastes far more sweeter than the tangerines,
Roses perfume the land, 
Grapevines never looked so glad,
Again, Spring is here, 
Shout out and give a loud cheer!
For the Gardens of Eden,
Ladybugs and laughter even.

May

The golden daffodils are fading fast,
But beautiful the bank of bluebells bloom.
This stand of beech trees has a lime-green cast
As sulphur yellow, flowers the spiky broom.
There is a madness to the month of May
Young boys sing madrigals from Magdalen tower
Fa-la  la-la  la, fa-la  la-la  lay
As birds sing lustily hour on hour.
Around the maypole children gaily trip,
As bumble bees buzz loudly in the flower,
And grown men dance with handkerchiefs and sticks :
A sudden breeze; black clouds portend a shower –
	"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May"
	But soon enough, the sun will warm the day.

A Letter To My Distant Lover

A LETTER TO MY DISTANT LOVER

Dear friend,

I wish a gentle wind could rise from my deep self
and blow towards you humming my deepest wishes
on freely swaying tree branches
along the cool banks of a river which neighbors your home
and perhaps the birds nesting on a forest hunching above the river
would compose them into madrigals
and go perch on a Mosu tree by your home; singing for you
I wish an evening offshore breeze could carry my wishes along
through the gentle nights of Ramotswa towards you
and invade your midnight dreams
Dear friend, I always long to see you again
and sit there with you just to while away time
I, secretly scanning for love through lenses of your eyes

Your distant lover

Signed.

Date Posted: 05 January 2014

Single Yellow Orchid

Silver box filled with madrigals
Winter song upon her heart
One single Orchid in her hand
Flower of bitter sadness
Panting for what is lost

Eyes blind in the darkness
Seeing what is left of love 
Softly whispering his name
Reaching out for bitter sweet memories
Embittering herself for this pain

A sunset that she missed 
Candle light now her company
They chattered before she left 
The yellow Orchid on a grave
Untimely death of tender love


 Nalanti Goosen©2012
 All rights reserved

Cogs In the Wheel

You find in the slime of indecency
The rotted hollow of an empty skull - 
A mindless mind allows redundancy 
Repeated repetitions till it's full. 
 
Cogs in a wheel turning round on a run, 
As sparrows share their madrigals at dawn.
The tulips muse about the idol, Sun,
Iconoclastic papal paragon.
 
Once baptised in the bounty of my birth,
Religion's regal razor ripped and flayed;
When double mothers claimed one child of earth
The mighty sword of Solomon was raised.
 
A wisp of willow in the wind will bend
As will the will of wiser men who found
The sterner tree is broken in the end
To join the lowly loam below the ground.

Charles Bukowski and the Emo Girl

in the back of the bus they sit akwardly across from each 
other. the smell of pabst and pall mall cigerettes magnetically repells against strawberry 
revlon lipgloss and hairspary.  he is trying not to hear her headphones blaring fergy and she 
is trying not notice the stains on his shirt. 
 he is thinking of neon exit signs and fishnet stockings on roominghouse madrigals who walk 
gently in the street under the red lights like cranes on a concrete pond.  she wants more 
watermelon flavored chewing gum and to write endless pages about
vanishing teddybear boyfriends and fluffy heart shaped clouds.

the bus driver looks in her mirror at the pair and instantly thinks of rust on tinfoil. after that 
the bus pulls slowly to the next stop at the community library, charles crookedly raises from 
his seat and dissapears into the night... the end..


'it takes more than time to live to long' bukowski

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