Short Songstress Poems

Bird on barbed wire fence
Sings to his hearts delight
Shot in mid sentence....

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Toast of the country
from coast to coast
drinking in the adulation
  the songstress drowned 
  in her peregrinations...

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Tonight, 
a faint hint 
in the way 
you croon

shows your 
longings 
much too 
soon,

takes me 
back to a 
youthful 
promise

of love 
blossoming
on a rainbow 
trellis!...

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Summer Song

Serenade slowly sweet songstress,

Sing soft sombre sonnets,

Something, somehow, someone  shares,

Seduced somewhat, songbird spirit,

Steadily sending summer sprung....

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Carly Simon

Songstress, big hair, and a huge smile
Cheshire cat teeth you can see across the Nile

You’re So Vain—Just might be about Jagger
Love her—Itsy-Bitsy Spider—and all her swagger...

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songstress

           songstress nightingale
           sweet whistlers, male or female.
                     allures fairy tale.                  


 08/13/21

'songbird haiku

Contest by tania kitchin...

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She 
rides the 
slow slide of 
her guitar blues
knife ‘gainst fretted strings of pain and pleasure

with hours to kill on train of love in vain
fields of fireflies 
find their groove -
songstress 
burns...

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Whined a perky young songstress from Miami
"I think I am deserving of that Grammy!
I do not sound especially great
But my lungs, they surely do inflate
Frankly, no one sings 'Candy Man' like Sammy."

May 22, 2021...

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Pretty Teresa
In the dim lit room sat an old geezer
Waiting patiently for the stripteaser
He waited in vain
For to his disdain
Came along songstress pretty Teresa.
1st April 2021...

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A last name? Nah! Not necessary for Adele.
      That voice! A songstress that casts a spell!

       She's a definite ten on a one to ten scale.
      Chartbuster; a honey-throated nightingale!


Date written: 05/25/2020...

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Country songstress
Poetic charm,
All I hope for,
Is for no harm,
To come to my Christy,
Mother with love,
Forced to wear,
A tough love-glove

The "GoodNight Moon" mistress
My friend, for sure,
I hope and pray,
Much good fortune
Will be yours forevermore...

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Midnight flight
One security light
To illuminate the works tower

Here one unique songstress at an unearthly hour
Come adverse weather, hail snow and freezing shower

For this day has only just begun
Yet an expression spun
My heart, won.

© Harry J Horsman 2012...

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Morningtide reverberates, the songstress calls,
buoyant curlews play in oceans of copious grass,
wave after wave shattering against dry stone walls,
meadows dance the rhythm of the farmers weatherglass,
implementing the orchestration from moortop squalls.

 © Harry J Horsman 2020...

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There once was a songstress named Buelah Wood

   Who aimed to make it big in Hollywood.

      I once suffered through her show;

         She twanged like Robin Hood's bow!

            Used to wish I could sing - now wished she could!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired...

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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter; known as just Beyoncé
Formerly a "Destiny's Child"; her mononym rhymes with fiancé

Much more than "Sasha Fierce", she's the wife of rapper, Jay-Z
A behemoth of a songstress, undeniably R&B's reigning queen bee



Date written and posted: 04/28/2019...

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(Yesterday a stormy day)

Malignant storm clouds
threaten the rustic songstress
inclement veil prey,
shadows crosswise the moor top
now shapeless within the mist.


(Today 17 Sept 2011)

The village supreme
basks in the delicacy
of September’s glow,
autumn leaves tap frigid pane
crows nests cruelly exposed.

© Harry J Horsman  2011...

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Hymns of a Songstress
Vibrational tone, of Sadness
So One day she'll die saving us all
But in return She can never love
for her purity is to Strong
May The Creation Guide
 the Loveless Songstress Of Hope
To the Great Divine
For she is Destin a Loveless Quest
 For our Great Survival of Life
The Path Of the Songstress is Sad
But Honorable to Have
For She is Know as the
Songstress Of Sadness...

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S is for the songstress O Sunshine.
U is all the whole world to mime.
S is for the pride O the Scottish.
And the A is for oor Angel we wished.
Named and baptised as Susan Boyle.

Boy did the Good Lord bless us all.
On oor own Mother type Kelly,s doorstep.
You were chosen to tread the red carpets.
Littered by the flowers of your fans.
E is for the Everlasting thanks O your Clans....

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That same soulful song 
you crooned just before
closing time last night,

it lingered long in my head,
soothed my worried mind
and tucked into sleep's
warm feather bed

... my wounded heart.


You know how to make
that old tune sound
refreshingly new.

Songstress, your spell
made me believe happily
that, in this uncaring crowd
you cared and sang

... for only me.


....

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That same sweet song 
you crooned just before 
closing time last night,

it lingered long in my head,
soothed my worried mind,
and tucked into sleep's
warm feather bed

..my wounded heart.

You've got a way of making 
that old tune sound 
so refreshingly new,

and a loving songstress' spell
making me believe happily
that, amid this uncaring crowd, 
you care and sing

..for only me....

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Heartfelt sadness projects throughout theater.
Inside darkness soulful lady bellows
mournful music sweetly, soothing, nearer.
Human hearing treasures gently mellows
softly tearful rendering of cellos.

Somewhere midnight, final curtain's falling.
Closing drama's always tragic hopeless.
Actress singing, crying, voicing calling,
"Lover comeback. Deathbed awaits songstress."
Solo echoes aria of darkness.

3/14/18...

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summer burns a lazy haze into the mind
Of seaming endless days enjoyed
The sea warms to a silk sun touch
Rolling on hot sandy beaches
Curling surf bursts boils and bubbles
Froth afloat and running swiftly
Then left on sand to disappear
Before the next caress
shells and stones all roll in water
Dancing with the tempo's sound
Falling  tidal songstress whispers 
coastal breezes hum along
Gulls and terns are singing background
To a lazy Summer Song...

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I fell in love with a songstress
To me she's so much more
Than just the splendid vocalist
I first met years before
There's a depth and substance to her
That others might not know 
But I picked up on some little things 
That otherwise don't show
She's sensitive and vulnerable 
She's self conscious and shy
She second guesses everything 
And then still wonders why
But she resonates with my spirit
Her and I are one
To me she's so endearing 
And in place, second to none...

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She's out there singing verse
Against a backdrop of surrender
Baking in wasted desert dry
Fathomless well of wondrous wording
Silent under ceiling fan cool
Thoughts in random redness
run wetly down cold feeling cheeks
Out in swelter seeking shelter
A mocking bird stands
One legged on a cactus shaded stick
Words form from inner longing
loosely linger inked and dry
Soar sweet siren
green eyed flight light
Spreading angel wings
Shedding shredded sadness
to fly so finely  free...

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