Sorrow Melody Poems

Written: April 19, 2024, For  Robert James Liguori Contest

Inspired from the Lyrics Gettin' Tighter

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In dreams of yonder, wishes wistfully conceive,
A cradle of lost tomorrows, where shadows sway;
To a realm unseen, where hearts believe,
Past where twilight’s lulling lullabies lay,
A...

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Broken pottery  with  
verses that carry screams
 leather than 
sounds of melody
makes my heart heavy 
with sorrow try to 
change the tune but the 
always...

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In shadows' embrace, my heart does weep,
A melody of sorrow, so dark and deep.
The sun once bright, now hides its face,
As clouds of despair take...

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Oh dear Rain, in measured drops you fall,
I am bound to you since my tender years,
Thy music, I long for, to grace my ears.
You cleanse...

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Written; June 16, 2023

Teardrop Poetry Contest                   ...

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My sorrowful sight sinks in the darkness within to see
the sanctum of the soul, still like the deep blue sea.

It finds where the torrent of...

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Wood's voices are loud, and the wind is weary.
It hurts and hurts as the fall leaves turn dreary.
On the saffron-robed eastern dark tally swarm.
Sheets dropped...

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The wind carries my song
From my lips to the corners of the earth,
And the flowers in gladness bloom, 
The trees stand a little taller,
And the...

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Quote by IRVING BERLIN



I knew you as a brilliant light
Shimmering joy, hope and insight
Laughing with wonder at the stars
Breathing a smile through our memoirs

Your song...

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Rain that slowly pelts
on the roses in sorrow,
don't make them weep any longer,
instead whisper the last melody
that they learned from the merry lark
that helped them...

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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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I watch the clouds turn to gray
 And I listen for the rain
 Then I hear the haunting melody you play
 As it echoes with...

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I watch the clouds turn gray
And I listen for the rain
When I hear the haunting melody you play
As it echoes with sad refrains

I often wonder...

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MELODY OF NIGERIANS


In the market, the Government sells verities 
of rumour of future change, we dance well
through the night and when morning comes, we 
saw...

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