Overture Poems | Examples

Overture Tri Cube

I can sense
the creeping
overture.

t’s blasting 
out windows 
to the lawns. 

Pepping up 
an entire
neighborhood.

OVERTURE poetrix

            slowly your soul
  opens into petals when I touch you
          just like a red rose

Second Theme

The sun is fading slowly, drinks are on the tray  
Midsummer days are still, with skies of blue and white
The evening strawberries decline in cups of clay
Petunias heady smell spreads out tonight
It starts with mournful cry of gulls in twilight air
The overture of yours, that weeping chord!
Then comes a theme of oboe, I am there
To play for you, my love, the notes you must have heard.

Pitch Pipe Overture

Sing for me and make it a cappella,
an album of musical afternoons;
By the light of the old candelabra
with a pitch pipe harness exotic tunes;

Your voice a passport to a far off land
no need for any accompaniment;
Colorful suitcase let me hold your hand 
I’m smitten by the vocal enchantment;

That accent so deliciously foreign 
I want to lick it clean off of your lips;
When can we go to the airport again?
I revel in all of our first class trips;

The moment the last song is in the air
I’ve begun planning our next overture.

Overture

Encapsulated in a world of duty and obligation 
I see no room for fantasy or imagination 
no wind of September
can ever dismember 
the longing I feel for illusion, fantasy and excitation

Only the stars of heaven can throw me a rope 
at night when I sleep, its the only time I cope    
the moon  
is my woon  
up there in the sky its the only thing that floats like hope. 

September 23, 2021

Overture

OVERTURE

Overture is an opening and in music, it can be an
independent orchestral composition in one movement
or an introduction to an opera, extended musical
composition or oratorio, like Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
 
Overture is a prelude that I added in my poem “Music”
every time I recite it in Poetry Open or Poetry Reading.
I sing the first two lines of the song “With A Little Help
From My Friends” and the next two lines for my intro.
  
The lines I rewrote and sing as “Lend me your ears
and I’ll read you a poem I wrote to share with you”.
My overture for my poem “Music” is not written as
part of the poem as it is meant to be sung for fun.

It is an opening move to warm up the audience
or draw in their attention and get them engaged.
And why not, they get two in one, a little song and
a poem, so dare to add an overture to your poems.


9/22/21         ''O" Contest, New Poems Poetry
                     Constance La France
                      Theme #4

Overture

the music serenades the midnight hour
opening the door to let you waltz into my dreams

you're suave you're smooth
how i wish i could feel the touch i crave

but it's this loop of an ethereal overture
that plays and plays inside my heart

as each night i rock myself to sleep
in the arms of an elusive lover



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on September 22, 2021 for 'O' CONTEST sponsored by CONSTANCE LA FRANCE  -  RANKED 1ST

Overture

As you wait
for a turn of fate
to get things
rolling again

You pass the time
listening to music
while pondering
transformations solidified

into transparent discrepancies
relinquished by distinguished
personifications that are truly amazing.
You drift through

happy circumferences
as you smile,
gaze into the distance
of truthful overtones

that are resurrected
with the ease
of a twist of justifications
dampening your quest.

My 1812 Overture

This is MY 1812 Overture, count em 1812 lims
Stop me when you've had enough, I'm filled to the brim
Didn't plan this stuff
Flows out my butt
Tried plugging it, blasted out clear up to my chin

Cinematic Overture

CINEMATIC OVERTURE

absentee teen had thrown money at mom,
due, but all the same simply unyielding.

a few days flew by, bird wings with no lullaby.
a movie dirge of unquenchable thirst —

replay of first few minutes, progress slow,
the clock hands click and clatter, a matter

of picking up the phone. a friend forfeits
her loneliness to come with her to the cinema.

she arrives ahead of schedule, but on time
“Hey, what are you doing here?” rings in her ear.

God pulls off such schemes for moms and teens.
a white dove delivers a newborn tune.

4/5/2018

Overture

I’m treading on thin ice.
Misplaced my safety net.
Captured in this crooked paradise.
Your pants are catching fire.
Curiosity killed the cat,
Cause he thought he was a tiger.
Glued to your filthy habits,
You can say that again.
If you don’t stand for something,
You’ll fall for anything.
Words mean nothing…
You’ve got my blood on your hands.
You said you cared,
But you didn’t mean it.
Where are those angels,
When you need them?
Your arms trying to pin me down,
Just like all the monsters,
We read about in poems and plays.
When the curtains drawn,
Is when the show really begins.
If only people listened to the overture.
I keep telling them to listen.
Your voice inside of my head,
Filling me with your venom,
Like the villains in your comic books.
If you don’t stand for something,
You’ll fall for anything.
Words mean absolutely nothing…
You’ve got my blood on your hands.
I said I don’t want it,
But you think I don’t mean it.
What if those angels,
Turn into demons?
You didn’t care to help me,
No one cared to help me,
Nobody can.
If only people listened to the overture.
Why don’t they ever listen?

Tchaikovsky's Overture

"TCHAIKOVSKY'S OVERTURE"


I watch her paint the lions under the trees
I listened to her sing the glory of love
I seen her playing on the frozen lake where 
her sister fell in and became deaf
today she put a pigeon out of it's misery 
because it had been shot
it was then she spoke of 
heaven.

today she played the piano with her mother
today she screamed at the female who 
stole her bible
today she walked in on her parents making 
love and didn't understand 
today she saw another female make a move 
on her father
today she pushed her enemy off the slide
incidently she shouted she was from Russia.
 
now she stands by the red apples with a bow 
in her 
hair.

do you expect me to tell you her next move?
do you expect to find love from those that 
preach it?
there's never a convertible inside a cracker 
jack box.
keep an eye out for the next line.


By: Chicano Eddie
3-13-2017

New Year Overture

When
The
Clock hands 
Mark midnight 
At the New Year Eve
Raise high your champagne flute and  cheers            
For the best and not so good moments lived in this year
Making an agreement with yourself of realizing the best efforts of progress 









Nayda Ivette
12-25-2015

Overture

gilded horizon
overture of a new day
the sun awakens

Fools Overture

How many ways
Can I say to you?
With words
Or silence
The towns square clown seeking your affections
Coldness or warmth
Open your loins of desire
Bare your heart
Let me whisper 
As I enter into you
I am you
You are me
Entwined
In the prison of freedom
The poison of love
The potion of eternal youth
Let me taste your lips
Suckle upon breast
Life 
Lust
Love
My hand like a surgeon
Inside your heart
Mending broken wings

You, with no mask
Me with no words
Silence becomes the tomb
Of our love

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