Music Villanelle Poems

These stairs have wept a million tears
walking from parking lot to hospital room
Hearts travel them, to meet their worst fears

Through shadows and shame, past years
Blessed...

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In glittering lights, she steps on the stage,
Her voice soars high, yet echoes with despair,
The vibrant crowd but masks a heart’s great cage.  

She...

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A tune that’s doused in giocoso 
will leave listeners with a full heart;
It bleeds with a rhythm staccato;

Fly guitar that’s not born to follow 
joins...

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“Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart—poisoned as it is with pride and pain—and replacing it with his own....

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Halloween carols ring growth and gore,
setting off those shivers on repeat;
They end with a scream forevermore;

Enough to make your skull hit the floor,
dressed as a...

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September dreams follow the night,
Whispering peace, sighing soft and still,
Like music, echoing the soul’s delight.

October visions seek those she’ll excite,
Shadowing the spirit with dewdrop’s spill,
September...

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Soundless words, pierce, then flow
Like the wind, whose story God wrote
Restless dreams whisper their glow

Joy stirs the music, the songs who know
He restores souls with...

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Zinnia Jazz called at the daybreak of Spring
The bees buzzed "how on earth does your garden grow?"
And the fresh season tapped in time with a...

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RIVERBANK

The river of life flows fast toward the weir
This scene is now reality, not a pantomime
So smile for the ferryman as he draws near

Is that...

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Humming just like an electric daisy 
a cloudless sky filled with high voltage;
The underlying sound calms my crazy;

Smoke from the trains rather hazy 
zoom zoom...

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I am no longer in my youth, it has flown the coop,
my bones, and joints won’t listen to my commands.
I spend most of my days...

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Whispers

Listen to the whispers in the winds,
In the rolling waves of the wildflower on the hills,
Where poppies dance and flaunt their golden colors.

Hear the musical...

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What she might have been was hidden
Beneath self-destruction and depression
Despair so black it silenced light, war-ridden

Life without purpose, true love forbidden
Leaving darkest doubt lost in...

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Ballerina	

A dainty dancer statue graces a busy pathway
Grace on perfect point for all to see
Heaven’s music beats in her heart every day

Clear crystal happiness begs...

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When all the noises around me are still,
I most clearly hear the voices in my head
It is then I experience the ultimate thrill.

Of melodies churning...

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