Short Lyre Poems

Lyre that you strum
  Melody in hum
    A tale, myth or a thrum?...

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Peruse the fiddle,
Strike the lyre, beat the drum
Waves to break glass air....

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when a liar plays lyre
the ignorant
rash to dance madly
the wise
think fast, first...

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I once knew a tree
Who refuse dancing to the lyre of
The gods, he was cursed.














GHOPS...

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lyre accompany me
as i write the poetry
of the celestial.
make the words have the magic
of rhyme and of imagery....

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Darling eyes I can't resist
Soft hands I caress and miss
Your heart that sings I sire
Pillows you throw slings like lyre...

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crossfire 
©Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty
10/31/2014



Caught in the crossfire 
He bought a Greek lyre ( we must admire)
He harped on and on–a liar...

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Days meander,

Gush of time pours its song

As the lyre of flowing rills,

A new Spring sounds forth

In dreams of remembrance

With warmth of teeming will...

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A love that:

Flows so sweet as 
ambrosia from Hebe’s
ladle to the cup of 
Heracles

or nectar saccharine as
Apollo’s lyre,
carried by doves!
to the heavenly feast...

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If you say the music comes from the lyres,
Why is there no music from the lyre in case?
If you say the music is on the tips of fingers,
Why can’t you enjoy music at your finger base?
(Tran.)...

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you know the song in my heart
you knew it from the very start
music by angels' lyre played
strings of gold, love portrayed

you know the song in my heart
instilled the day we met, our start...

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Poet is the eyes of crying world
Poet and the words
Of aching heart
yard Melancholy  tackled in tact
Poet is the voice
Of laud in glory of crowd
Poet is a lyre in love
When the heart is stringed hard...

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Quick like fire
Burning desire
Is a pseudo-sire
Playing a lyre
Breaking a wire
By greased tire
Stepping in mire
Looking at a pyre
It’s all looking dire
Quick like fire
Burning desire

Russell Sivey...

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My poetic lyre
             may not be resplendent
             of glory,
             but the magic flute of
            my poetry becomes delight
            and rises out of euphoria
            denotative art form... !...

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Nature's first child with nature's passion blend
Ornated flower where the sun's passion rend
Religious things from the flawed hand of men
Melodious to hear, to dance but never bend
Astute wonder that from Orpheus' lyre descend...

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With pastels in hand,
I paint the life of the sea...
in sunny Capri.


Giant Cyclops settled here,
and fishermen still fear them...
legends become real.


Mermaids sing with lyre,
luring them in your cold deep...
as images appear....

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The detour of a certain age
Is quashed in tides of fire

And forever is the youth gone pass
As on the strains of lyre.

Make no whisper none is heard
Amongst the thread-like silk

For sweet is yon meadow-lace 
And forever, is the milk....

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The Piper of destiny
  calls from the unknown

Without lyre or harp, 
  his truth so intoned  

All sirens left deafened,
  tumbling over themselves

As a choir of Angels
  —from his flute are bespelled

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

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She lies, tan gentle lines and curves so sharp
she pairs her heart horizontal to zero 
But she can't ignore the signs anymore
For a symptom hopes a cure will appear
Strum soft sweet chords on wire lyre strings, we come
Together to throw arc shadows on walls...

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On white paper,
I pour all mine
delirium...
On white paper,
my lyre weaves
love bows, and
pour all
daydream...
On the white page,
write with yours
body, fresh story
of love...
And in the cosiness
from interlinings
my bland soul
I deliver to you...!...

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On white paper,
I pour all mine
delirium...
On white paper,
my lyre weaves
bows of love, and
spills all
daydream...
in your white body,
I write with my
body, novel story
of love...
And in the coziness
from the interlinings to
my gentle soul
I offer you...!...

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Likely story,
"Lyres" lie,
Looking angelic,
Laughable really.
Lively defense,
Lovely lawyer.

Loads of evidence,
Loose lips,
Lots of blood,
Lost cause.
Let the "lyre" go?
Lovely angels say, "No"!


Copyright:  April 17, 2017
(for the Angels and Lyres contest)...

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Breaking thru the clouds

with the power of light

as a song bird sings

untill the night 

healing the wounded 

as a chariot thus fly

plucking his lyre

as he opens our eyes

this oracular God

whom can heal or kill

protecting the sun

with a musical gun....

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Sing me a song 
I LOVE YOU
Make my day 
sing me a song 
flute it
Harp it
Lyre it
Chocolate my 
mornings sing 
me a new song 
I LOVE YOU

dream land my 
reality sing me a 
new-old song I 
LOVE YO

sweet-butter-
honey my soul 
sing me an old-
new song I 
LOVE YOU...

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Making eternity
out of a moment
Escaping
the pretense of time
Beginnings
and endings
Falling away
in one enduring rhyme

Making eternity
bend to my will
An Angel
comes to dance
Wings on fire
Horae's lyre
The instant christened
—another chance

(The New Room: June, 2023)...

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