Free Verse Music Poems

The bowel of the earth deepens with
Saturated blessings of the soil, and
Down, down, the forces burrow in its
Caverns —creviced

Between day and night, I cannot decipher,
Yet...

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It's not about tone
Its about policing of voice
It's not about the sound we make
It's the words echoing through them
They don't fear us being seen
They fear...

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She wants to dance in the rain
and walk across edges, of warmest sands
that shimmers, as if diamonds
like, speckled...freckles

and she wants to let her hair hang...

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I don't know how, 
To speak Spanish, 
But I love the music,
I hope that one day,
I'll learn the language, 
And sing my heart out.
...

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My friend most beautiful
sat shoulder to shoulder with me
after the lights went low
and the show began.

We took in ballad after ballad
the tender voice hour after...

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If you want her to merch you? 
You’ve got to earn it.
She doesn’t just wear your shirt,
on her it’s a perfect fit. 

Little Miss Tour...

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Sparrows enjoy a certain reputation
For intimacy and hope

Crosby Stills and Nash sang of them
In Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
As compatriots to the morning
Air
With guitar strums and...

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Lyrics come to me by moonlight
When the power of darkness lessens
When whispers soften like overripe
Mangoes dispatched hurriedly from India,
On ramshackle East Indiamen vessels
Sailing fruitfully through...

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Cheerful music. 
Churning out chords. 
A windmill of niceness. 
Music brings me an effect. 
Syllables, and chorography. 
Are just floating. 
Above stage lights. 
During my...

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It looks to me like the iconic photo was shot on a Sunday
Behind an abbey that was soundless with loud prayers
The traffic was more human...

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Late November,
and lonely resonance of harmattan
salutes this solitude.
A weaverbird's contralto, in one
gale-sweep, lays bare the lower balustrade
of a maisonette,
and the romance of the last seasons
shoots...

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WAITING FOR THE MUSIC TO PLAY*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
she’s poised on her tiny stage
waiting for the music to play

she wears a pink leotard and white satin tutu bordered...

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Thank you Chuck
for your fun song
"Feels So Good".
We who remember
will never forget 
You and your
joyous flugelhorn....

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Wispy windblown notes tingling,
gliding down a moonbeam
whilst magnolias perfume the air,
the thought of you ever on my mind.



AP: 3rd place 2025

Submitted on July 29, 2025...

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I love to dance to the music of The Rolling Stones, 
one of the longest-running rock bands since the sixties.
The band’s music is raw with...

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