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All the music done by ear
Hammered out by courier
Lyric carried all the cheer
While record shows the blow and beer.
~TH~ 03/19/15
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Too easily
we are seduced by moments
thinking they can be infinitely stacked
forgetting the lesson
of lyric Babel
the flip-side of Tongues.
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I do not know?
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The red mist descends beyond horizon,
footprints of your visit yesterday linger on.
Nonchalantly the haze still fills up my senses,
reminiscence of your lyric still ornate my soul.
©Chitra Arun
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Winter chills my bones
But you warm me to the core
Hold me tightly then
Burn me; fire me up tonight
As fire emits love
You are the source of the flame
For eternity
You’ll be the fire in my heart
And I’ll be the fire in yours
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You Inspire Me
What inspires me?
A song lyric-------a brave, determined person (Man or Woman)
A gifted child
An Innovator, innovators are individuals that are firsts to do something.
That inspires me and by the way…
O mother you inspire me (most of all)!
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Listen to the music,
the rhythm,
(a sustained beat)
as if a heart
fulfilled entirely
by joyful
thumping....
Too easily
we are seduced by
satisfying moments;
thinking they will
infinitely stack
with little nurturing;
forgetting
the lesson
of lyric Babel...
our flip-side
of Tongues.
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Lento
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Painted up with that color I love,
baited with a pair of blue shutters;
Fated to call this vacant dwelling,
sacred shelter with just four letters;
Replay of a riff from the back porch,
a taste of that song got me homesick;
Betray my gypsy heart for a dream?
‘Stay, this is home.’ the seductive lyric.
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Senryu
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Warm sun comforts you
You are all green and light gold
Your beautiful hold
Sunrays on red lips
Buds open out in flowers
My story-stirred hours
And the violet
Bougainvilleas on your arch
In a lovely splurge
Hold on little more
On your flowing river shore
In your lush lyric
__________________________
O5/5/2016
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Wandering in a love song
Dreaming of his hearts embrace
The Troubadour sings
"Raison d' etre"
While stars cast a lonely moon's tune
Where darkness shields his fate
As wind is to rain, his sadness
Blows tears to the ground and falls
Like heavy roaring
Thundering skies crash
While his lyric silences soft
The Troubadour sings
July 20, 2019
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My brain‘s sprung a leak
Words are tumbling out
Good, bad, happy, sad
It doesn’t matter
They fall onto the page
I can’t sleep
Repressed for so long they’ve rallied and escaped
Running free, punishing me
At any cost
They force me to write
I can’t focus
Words flow through my mind
Verse, lines, lyric and rhymes
Holding me hostage
They show no relenting
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Quintain (English)
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Tender kisses by firelight,
slow dances, with soft music.
Strong arms around me holding tight.
As movements become hypnotic,
your eyes, speak to me, dramatic.
With romance, clearly in sight,
our steps become strategic,
we flow as one, in the night.
You softly whisper, loves lyric,
one more evening ends in magic.
For the contest: Make Me Swoon
sponsored by Francine Roberts
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How Long the Night
anonymous Old English Lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern wind's blast—
its severe weather strong.
Alas! Alas! This night seems so long!
And I, because of my momentous wrong,
now grieve, mourn and fast.
Originally published by Measure
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The willows whisper
clouds gaze above
On forgotten fields
that once grew love
Eye's sparkle gone
dust in its place
A fading flower
hope's tear-stained face
The day is ending
Hues' kiss goodnight
Soft shadows cruel tease
That everything's all right
~Lyric Man
Note: This is an echo poem from one of my favorite poets on the Soup. I heard she has now gone and I had the beauty and the melancholy colliding inside.
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What would I sing tonight
I want to sing the night
give me a beautiful lyric
I will take you to the moon.
What's in the moon
there is sound of light
others are unknown stories
what I am saying is you.
Oh what is this lullaby
melodiously sings by
something that I don't know
never I have known it.
Don't throw me love
I might cannot catch
handed it to me instead
eternally I will take care of it.
Laman Seni. 180116.01:02AM.
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Let me sing for you
The nightingale told the red hearted hibiscus
With the golden lips
No, Sir poet, replied the common flower
Your lyric is complicated
And I get hyperventilated
Trying unravel both seduction and power
Dear me, dear me, O dear me
Sang the nightingale
It is mistaken identity
I sing the words that all birds use
In my own meaning
It is oversimplicity
I use to mask the urgency of pain.
I cannot live unless I sing
O let me sing for you.
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A Sharp Turn Of View
A falling leaf
Cutting down no vital of the ground,
But carried away the sigh of season's song.
A touching lyric
Shooting off no trouble of the world,
But clarified our mind without any moan.
Since there is no paradise and a severe life,
Neither could you utter a biased cry;
Oh the dancing of the snowflakes is never worth the first rose's smile
And, that is the way I live poetically
Both in a classical and modern style
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Cinquain
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Rants do not make great songs
Rosanne Barr I am sorry to say
not so great in a thong
when you sell no tickets
you have no show
Unless you on the side streets of cali
among peepers and creepers
then ticket sales of two are no crime
if you over and above nineteen
invite the crowds to see the obscene
When the show is over and done
make sure the phones delete
the evidence of sins and desperate crumbs
if you have no voice
there is no musical lyric to rejoice
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Words of love you write too me
A lyric you find for me
Then a song you play for me
Each word says what is on your mind
I understand each line as they are also mine
A moment in time
A kiss from you
The feeling lasts forever
Smile you give sends smiles back
Laughter I hear sends music to my ears
Love you show is full of truth
A thought that you feel
The touch that you give
All for the deepest of emotion
Is all for the love we light our fire with....
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The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men ravish, dishevel her . . .
till both are cut down
by mere ticks of the Leveler.
Published by The Lyric, Tucumcari Literary Review, Romantics Quarterly and The Aurorean. Keywords/Tags: nature, survival, bitter, winter, spring, seasons, fate, weak, bold, universe, time, levels, leveler, red in tooth and claw, harsh, hardship
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Floating on designed time
A poem wondered why
Its words should rhyme.
So it decides to try
Become a wild river
Carry words of heart
In all sizes of boulder
The way it wants.
Some words roll polished
Some get stuck tarnished
Some splinter like heart.
Time carries the sands
To the distant sea
Stratifies emotions in sentences
Layer by layer
Build the unrhymed image
Of the poem of some sense
Vibrating with the pulse of life
On the crest of rhapsody wave
In a lyric I sing.
March 31, 2018.
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You blew me such a sweet, sweet
Sweet kiss..
It rode upon the winds to find
My ruby red lips, to fall in love
Once again..
You look down at me as your
Lips spoke the words “I’ve
Found my true love and my
Lips will never kiss another”
Let not our love die in vain
For I’ve seen a nightingale
Perched upon my windowsill,
I heard the nightingale sing
So sweet, so sweet
It sang of my ruby red lips
With,
Lyric were off the chain..
Such harmony cannot will
Not,
Be perfected again..
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Don't give me a reason to give up on you
I'm not going to let you fall
I'm going to give you something to think about
I'm going to give you all my love
It's everything I've got
To infinity and above
I give you all my love
So don't give me a reason to give up on you
It's a keepsake from my heart
That someone else can't touch
So leave your barriers behind
Come forever to me in love
Let's live each day for the next
Together forever we'll stay
And end this drawn-out tragedy
That shouldn't of ever began
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Soul Ghosts
close to our
inner-core self
they are there
nestled beyond reach
still living as part of
our past, present, future
they never forget
nor should we
they can’t forgive
maybe we can
part of the fourth dimension
they can come anytime
to haunt us
to talk to us
to love us
to talk to us
beyond the mortal coil
they are always there
they are us
we are them
may god love
may god bless
amen
amen
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
January 7, 2018 (Lyric)
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And though it seems like a
long lost dream,
Know that we’ve got your back
This insanity won’t last forever
It’s bound to fade away fast
Doctors, nurses and
Childcare workers
Police and Firemen
Pilots, Preists and Rabbis
Teachers, Family and Friends
We all rely on you
When you do what you do
You do what you can
For the old and the young
The rich and the poor
We send all our love and little bit more
Here’s hoping this all will
ring true
For tomorrow and all the days yet to come
We all know what to do
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(Lyric to Gymnopedie No 1 by Erik Satie)
I open the album I'd long forgotten
and the old photos draw me slowly in
I feel my childhood self intensely
so innocent, so hopeful, in youthful skin
My heart squeezes tight with tenderness
compassion swells for who I was then
I feel a surge of sweetness so painful
to be back with her once again
As an adult, I'm grateful to have been her
I sit with her in quiet gentle melancholy
Life turned out differently from imagined -
I ask myself, is she disappointed with me?
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