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Music Poems | Examples of Music Poetry

Music Poems - Examples of all types of music poetry to share and read. This list of music poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of music poetry. This list of works about music is an excellent resource for examples on how to write music poems.
Premium Member Return to Innocence
When life seems to fade off, you come out from the mist reaching the beach while the violins play their best note. When I touch the ground, I hear the tune of an old piano smelling to your parfum, bringing...Read the rest...
Categories: music, adventure, allegory, allusion, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Live and Breathe Creating
To Live and Breathe Creating …for some time again to rapidly wing into joy creating with words as heartbeats and lines each sketched for breath as these pens with their inks draw in a song of...Read the rest...
Categories: music, art, beauty, creation, dance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A UK EUROVISION WINNING QUINTET
 "Love Shone a Light"      upon this "Puppet on a String" with a  "Boom Bang-a-Bang" it helped  "Making Your Mind Up" to "Save Your Kisses for Me...Read the rest...
Categories: music, patriotic, song,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member top of the world Ma
song write syllable count Woodstock guitar strings zing Cagney yells “top of world Ma!” song write ...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member The Empty Nest
absence was noticeable like the wood yet blessed with nails of plenty hellfire snuffed out gossiping walls abandoned vacancy in one's upper regions merely invites painful issues focus compliments across the forsaken propped-stand sits Vellums of ex-calf-hides that's flat-parched-rolled of...Read the rest...
Categories: music, destiny, divorce, forgiveness, love,
Form: Suzette Prime



Premium Member Remembering Your Song
Let me hear your love song Whilst in silence I was long Let me taste your melody Like sweet berries on my tongue Let me hear your love song Slide your bow across the strings Move to the wave of my...Read the rest...
Categories: music, bereavement, death, first love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member NonViolent Musicians
When he speaks transparently he feels co-passionate as long as s/he appears to vulnerably listen Without Me v We risks of retributive judgment when he aims to restore cultures and climates of peace through win/win reassessment Which may be why music feels easier to sing resonantly when compassionate audiences dance...Read the rest...
Categories: music, anger, body, fear, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Sing A New Song
Psalms 96:1 (KJV) “O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.” Seas of twittering, Tweets, gentle as noon, Melodious uprising from the nest. Colors like wildfire, glowing hues, Erasing the morning mist, Seas of...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, bird, hope, music,
Form: Verse
My Eurovision
When Abba wowed the audience: the only part I've ever seen! Oh, and the bearded lady who (I think) was a drag queen. ...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shaking My Thing Proud and Loud
yellow dragon with polka dots is playing the blues. Stop it! Yells daddy dog, who is wearing tight shoes. He wants to be the leader of the band once again. His barking angry ways make my nerves feel...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Haiku XVI
tail feathers in flight Snipe-reed flutes play hu-hu-hu melody at dusk...Read the rest...
Categories: bird, music,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Music Swap
Quote:""One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Louis Armstrong In my mind, depths transcend, Music weaves, divine blend, Sorrow, hope, intertwined, depths transcend, In my mind. Melodies seal,...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Quatrain
Gruel
in a large roasting pan combine 3 cups of aundoille or polish sausage bite sized 3 cups of peeled diced carrots 3 cups of peeled red bell peppers diced 1 cup of peeled diced sweet potatos 2 sprigs of thyme 2...Read the rest...
Categories: music, business, culture, food, love,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Beta Test It
Slap it hard beta test a ‘nu jam on me, your voice is more than a cover song; I swear I’ll give you honest feedback, just promise me that you’ll have fun; Your voice is more than a cover...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Pantoum
Hottie Hottie
You won't regret it She won't forget it She so pretty ah real Social Creature the Sexy Lady the Main Feature an Attraction to all Fellows just stop to stare she don't care she don't care Shortootsies made with exotic fabric perfume so sweet a potion of...Read the rest...
Categories: music, beach, beautiful, dance, money,
Form: Ballad

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Definition | What is Music in Poetry?


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