Childhood Melody Poems

A sound is spreading around me
I can barely hear this spondy
This is in rhythm and constant
It reminds me my past
When I didn't know,
How to blame...

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Childhood is meant to be loving and carefree,
sadly it’s not always the way it should be...


The mask of misery hiding the curse
Coming from violence and...

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I Cannot Remember My Mother
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
I cannot remember my mother,
yet sometimes in the middle of my playing
a melody...

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Magnificent melody of life 

First we hear lullabies and then learning a nursery rhyme,

We learn head shoulders knees and toes and shout until we hear...

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Melody




Raise my head up to the sun
Let it web out
The rhythm to my drum
Old days brought flowers and gems 
Black clouds and ocean rain

I ponder...

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You made up a wondrous, precious melody inside me
If I was sober and less numb, I would’ve felt it, baby
Sick with that same ol' love...

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Monsoon Melody

Winged postal horses of poetic turf
Seemingly preoccupied in scratching an itch
Inflicted upon by our toxic refuge,
It would be a bit too much
Expecting black clouds...

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Susana played a flaunting tune,

That lingered near the haunting moon,

The song was tragic, sad ,and sour,

Which filled her with the darkest power,

And when her song...

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Voices of wind-chimes tinkle,
Laughter of children’s glee
Sprinkle the air with music
Under the ice-cream tree....

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