Angst Music Poems

Dissonant guitar 
and hiccups of angst 
drip golden licks of Nirvana;

Scream, follow me down 
for a time you know
that everything will be okay;
 Because it...

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Somberly and perpetually it plays
Dark melodies in my days

Rumblings of guitar and piano play at distant
corners of my mind
Lingering concerts of sorrows so unkind

Redbone said,...

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For Natalia Kills


Are the majority
of things in
life controversies?
It seems like
there is always
another side
of the story
You have to
maneuver delicately
amidst the minefields
of trepidations that
pester your 
daily routine
Even...

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If Thou take not our hands,
and feet,
our bodies
hosting ghostly minds,
our organic inside lives
flowing out emphatic love

We will continue to fail,
to fear,
to feel tired,
retired,
weary,
untreaded,
worn.

When I try...

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“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
Rumi

If life was a song,
what would be your refrain?

When instruments of fate performed
in...

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Sun settles
On the winter chimes
While setting.

As crystals, virtuous choir, ring— running frost on glass; shadows back off
At bruised muse's plaid light split— cold brass on...

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He can turn the crank, to tunes of happy song,
One that his crowd has cherished for long,
But something has so terribly gone wrong
For someone has...

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I wind and wind and wind,
And then I watch the ballerina spin,
And I never get tired of the soft melody that accompanies her dance, 
The...

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Our tune, a fleeting symphony,
A wild hymn that defied time and space.
Like a masterpiece, it crumbled too soon,
Yet left its mark, an everlasting trace.

You, the...

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GLIMPSE 

My heart a pouch of rich wine overlays yours
A drop of blood spilled over an arum lily
It waits with longing intense, retains no tears
As...

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On edge of the marsh trills a Spring Peeper.
His pal is a fiddler, whose strum’s deeper.
Together their tune’s not bad,
yet driving the neighbor’s mad.
Their hands...

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young man
hocking guitar
to get home...

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no G string
Thrift Shop Guitar
1520 songs out...

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old violin
hangs on restaurant wall
shame...

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would be star
moves to Nashville
fails...

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