Songbook Poems - Poems about Songbook

A Walk with Father

...He leads me through East London,
docks, pubs, among the stray dogs, the
River Thames lapping at low clouds.

We find the second-hand player in a street
where the shops are dusty holes under the ...

Sing Your Song

...“birds care not for whom they sing” - Silent One

You have your place in nature's choir,
Singing creation's songbook.
You're divine when you sing what you desire,
Like water in a brook,
Or leav...

Mary, Mary, Not Quite

...The oldest version dates from Tom Thumbs' 1744 songbook. Modern versions keeping with times, caused 'Mistress' to go dark. 'Cockle' is a seashell.

Mistress Mary sang like canary,
When they surrou...

Xylophone

...X marks the spot - teeny fingers tap colors.
Youngster’s attentive to the rainbow bars.
Language of a rambunctious or prissy toddler.
Oscar music songbook exalts experience.
Potent stick and head...

The Rape, of a Piano Song

...Her song is the luring of a beloved beast
with a soft black, blond coat, and sunflower eyes.

Her song is the colors captured 
within any sky, 

every sky within the celestial sphere 
 that ad...

Music

...Melodies remain
Uncontained by time's goodbyes
Songbook of refrain
Immersed with dim, nimbus eyes
Chorus chords immortalized

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Who Will Be Great - Ii

...If you look at Stephen Foster,
who wrote songs for the minstrel shows,
you wouldn’t expect a genius
that all of the world would know.
He was another bookkeeper
for a steamship company,
until he...

When Shall We See Tomorrow

...History is the mirror through which we see tomorrow. 
She is the apartheid portrait and silhouette of liberty in Port Elizabeth.
In Cairo, the pyramids would show you her hidden hollows.
Through t...

Centennial Fury

...The great American Songbook
  whose words march off the page

Its music now a footnote
  —to a century of rage

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

The American Bar In the Savoy Hotel

...It is called the American Bar in the Savoy Hotel, in the Covenant Garden area of central London just off the Strand.  Tonight, it was awash with indifferent lovers searching for another dramatic roma...

Against the Elements

...We are still at the mercy 
   of the elements 
despite our technological advances
    Today the city is 
covered in snow
     No cars moving, no mail
Inside I am warm and
    watching beautifu...

The World Without the Self

...Between conjecture and classification there is
observation, experiment, data (collection and analysis),
statistics, calculus, and a good guess
about God's intentions - probabilities, fractals, cha...

Who Should I Thank

...You may feel about the planet what
you feel about a great baseball team or band:
that once there was a moment when, unknown
to us at the time, we convened
and lost and found ourselves in what we ...

Thumbing Through My Hymnal

...This songbook that I'm thumbing through,
uplifts my soul, I sing anew.
""Amazing grace how sweet the sound,
that saved a wretch like me."
(John Newton, thank you for this song,
you changed your ...

Blueberries

...blueberries gasoline and prostate gland
breast cancer Wonderbread and pacifier

controlled experiment space travel and honey
peanuts inductive reasoning and electricity

tornadoes torture chamb...

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