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Sondheim Poems - Poems about Sondheim

Rip Stephan Sondheim

If I cannot fly, let me sing
he who wrote almighty music 
writes now in a place of nothing 
or somewhere else the theater picks 

1/24/2022

Categories: sondheim, art, celebration, culture, death,
Form: Rhyme

Sublime Sondheim

A theatre legend - Mr Stephen Sondheim
an icon of Broadway, ahead of his time
smart lyrics, lush music, bold rhythms and rhyme
the curtain has fallen on a writer sublime.

// Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics and/or music to West Side Story, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Company, Follies, and many more musicals //

Written 1/13/2022

Categories: sondheim, death, music,
Form: Epitaph

Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim
      a lyricist of my time
Gypsy, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods…
   He was that good

11/27/2021

Categories: sondheim, death, music, tribute,
Form: Clerihew

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Sondheim On Sondheck # 8 .

This is a parody on Gee Officer Krupke from West Side Story .

   Dear  Doctor  Grumpee
   Nobody  knows
   Why  I'm  hooked  on  this  site
   Writing  poetry  and  prose .
   I  write  sonnet

Categories: sondheim, parodywords, poetry,
Form: Lyric

Charting a New Course (Sondheim)

Our Lord’s there for me
There so lovingly
Through the dark He guides me

As He promised me He would
He has always understood
And when I’ve not been good
Still by my side He’s stood

Offering His love
He sends to me his Dove
How does He know just what I need when I’m down
Why, He just offers love

Sends me a better plan
Then

Categories: sondheim, faithme, love, me,
Form: Lyric

So, What Should We Be? ( Sondheim On Sondheim.)

Sung to Send In The Clowns From A Little Night's Music.

So, what should we say,
right here, today?
Feelings that two people had
on one summers' day,
drifting away...

So, what should we do,
about me and you?
Recall we opened our hearts
and admired the view.
Fading and frayed..
drifting away..

Once we were young,
our passion was true.
I thought of no one or nothing
unless it

Categories: sondheim, husband, lost love, parody,
Form: Lyric

Sounds of Sondheim

Tastes of the Big Band
Pop and jazz merged with Broadway
Avant-garde comes close


By Robb A. Kopp

Categories: sondheim, dedication, music
Form: Senryu