WRITE ON
Sing your song from the roof tops,
Sing out loud and clear.
Sing of love and hate and war,
And all that you hold dear.
Let others see the beauty,
That surrounds us every day;
The blue of sky, the green of grass,
And young things as they play.
Remind us just how precious,
Our freedom is to us,
And if it isn't guarded well,
How easily it's lost.
Tell us of your memories,
Things that made you laugh,
Like when you tried to learn to rope,
Was run over by that calf.
Share with us your song of life,
With all it's ups and downs;
For when you do you'll find in life,
God grants more smiles than frowns.
Judy Ball
Music is poetry for our ears.
For our eyes the written text of poetry is what all poets hold dear,
but when the poetry of music is combined with the read poetic text,
the poetry form of a song has been born.
My 3 forms of poetry; Music, Song & Text.
Well...I wanted to do something silly as I did,
In writing a poem for this bid.
It took but a TINY HERCULEAN try,
All the while, I'm asking "Why?"
I thought of writing about the time,
When I didn't even have a dime.
But then I realized how silly it would be,
To write something, only about me.
SO, SITTING and SMELLING the SWEET SEPAL,
I decided not to write about me at all.
Instead, while eating my JUMBO SHRIMP,
I decided it would best to be an OVERGROWN IMP.
Writing about the CARNATION CARRIED by the COURTIER,
Who SANG his SONG SUCCESSFULLY to his SIRE.
Oh, the WORDS that he WOULD WARBLE WISTFULLY,
While the GREAT and GORGEOUS GREETED him GLEEFULLY.
His CANTANKEROUS KING COMMONLY CAROUSED,
Yet, only SONG SOOTHED him when his SHACKLED SEVERITY SEPIA aroused.
Thus, often abed the king would go,
His DARKNESS LIGHTENED by the SONG SANG SO.
And if this silliness be not a poem the rules will fit,
Maybe I should just lay down my pencil...and QUIT !!
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