GuzhengFingertips
fall—
not like
stones,
but like rain,
plucked silver
threading the air.
Each string
holds a hush,
a breath not yet
forgotten.
The musician builds—
not a score,
but the curve
of a heron’s wing
skimming dusk
softly vanishing
in a single glissando.
The guzheng does not speak.
It spills:
vibrato,
a tide rising
then breaking
against memory.
Sound leans back—
not toward silence
——but toward a
distant shore
we once
heard.
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Note: Guzheng is a traditional Chinese musical instrument....
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Categories:
beautiful, memory, muse, music,
Form: Imagism
mine engram'z pretty poison
Categories:
character, cute, memory, muse,
Form: Free verse
arteries of night hiku
Categories:
earth, imagery, muse,
Form: Haiku
The darkened sky stole my Tears"The darkened sky stole my tears,"
replaced the heat of hurt with jewels,
specks of lunar-glazed silver dust,
to see me sip rose-wine reveries of midnight,
where procrastinated promises
and dusky dreams of the heart linger...
Perhaps, I knew not my need ~
to be saved by the burning shimmers
and silken shivers of your silhouette
drifting through indigo azure in...
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Categories:
dream, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Crayon Box DreamsWhen days and dreary hopes could feel no duller,
and gray heavens escape my pencil’s reach,
—oh misery!, it can’t be set to speech,—
my crayon box dreams of unbridled color!
When weeks waste precious hues to wanton squalor,
my paintings take the faded tone of bleach,
—or worse!—, if poetry can no more teach,
my crayon box prays for richer color!
Woe!Woe!Woe!—unto...
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Categories:
muse, art, creation, depression, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
To Bloom in Thee I: Pagan Muse PsalmShall I compare thee to an onyx rose?
Thy thorns draw blood as softly as thy lips,
A bloom that drinks the night where moonlight flows,
With shadow wine which this mortal sips with willing lips.
By torch of bone and ash of laurel leaf,
We tread the path where triple faces leer,
Twin serpents coil beneath thy midnight sleeves,
And stir...
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Categories:
muse, appreciation, beautiful, dedication, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
YESTERDAY’S SONG[Verse 1]
She came to me like a late-night spark,
Whispered words in the quiet dark.
Didn’t know her name, but I felt the pull—
My hands went numb, my heart got full.
Line by line, she lit my soul,
The kind of fire you don’t control.
Thought she’d stay, thought she was mine—
Didn’t see the ending, not that time.
[Chorus]
I loved her...
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Categories:
muse,
Form: Lyric
THERE SHE GOES, MY BEAUTIFUL MUSE[Verse 1]
The lithium, the satellite
The blood moon in a sleepless night
The reels you posted, burning bright
Still echo in my chest
The AI wrote a lullaby
The sea caught fire, the wires lie
But somewhere deep behind my eyes
She dances like the rest
[Chorus]
There she goes, my beautiful muse
There she goes with nothing to lose
There she goes, and I light...
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Categories:
conflict, confusion, love, muse,
Form: Lyric
Your Spellbound Breathless Poet
“Poetry is an expression of innate emotions,
entrancing the muse with the excitement of
dedicated offering”- By Poet
I breathe poetry of ebullient emotions,
the sensual designer of dulcet dreams,
searching for the sense of fervent feelings.
As they mingle with the tone of my twilight time,
my mind merges with the sentiments of belonging,
where...
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Categories:
emotions, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lost in ShadeLost in Shade
I am a blur in the mosaic, painted, not placed
a borrowed hue in a gallery of dream and machines.
Voices whirl like prayer wheels spun too fast,
each syllable a wind that forgets my name.
Skyscrapers bloom like cold steel flowers,
rootless, like me, fed by wires, not soil.
I chase the scent of home...
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Categories:
muse, emotions, feelings, london, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
easy breezyto compose a poem
if we need to think
it is better we pause
in the gap when we blink
spontaneity rekindles
our innermost essence
effervescence epitomises
our soul’s quintessence
in our natural element
spirit shapes life’s course
there is in truth no need
for application of force
when we set up an intent wave
soul’s emotes are by God heard
alchemy then transforms
creative spark as...
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Categories:
muse, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Blueberriesfresh picked blueberries
stimulate poetic pens ~
my muse just wants pie
...
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Categories:
muse, cute, desire, fruit, funny,
Form: Haiku
Whisper of Light
while my heart sometimes breaks
for a time when my love was innocent
and flowed from the breathless dreams
where I let the light carry me,
whimsical hues of what it means to see
beautiful in the hearts who know love is free!
...
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Categories:
muse, appreciation, heart, inspirational, light,
Form: Verse
Purpose?Why Poetry? she muses, sat in front
of paper, staring blankly, lifelessly
at her image.— and really…, who is she
to ask the page—in a manner so blunt—
to shoulder her excesses? such a stunt
surely exceeds the bounds of decency;
Soliciting a perfect effigy,
she risks paying her Muses high affront.—
Still, she dares,—and dares she bold and willing
to strike strokes of black...
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Categories:
muse, art, creation, devotion, imagination,
Form: Italian Sonnet
FIREFLIES TO NEONVerse 1
We were barefoot kids in the ‘Bama heat
Chasing fireflies through the summer wheat
She laughed like a song, wild and free
Holding that jar like it held a dream
I'd watch her glow in that golden hour
And wonder if she knew her power
Pre-Chorus
Even back then, I just knew
Some kind of light was pulling me through
Chorus
From fireflies to...
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Categories:
muse, dream, fate, first love,
Form: Lyric
Specific Types of Muse Poems
Definition | What is Muse in Poetry?
Poems Related to Muse
ponder, ruminate, brood, consider, deliberate, feel, percolate, moon, roll, reflect, contemplate, meditate, revolve, weigh, cogitate, speculate, think, turn over, be lost in thought, build castles in air, chew over, mull over, puzzle over, think over,