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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...
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Categories:
music, adventure, allegory, allusion, blessing,
Form: Free verse
To Live and Breathe CreatingTo 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...
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Categories:
music, art, beauty, creation, dance,
Form: Free verse
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...
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Categories:
music, patriotic, song,
Form: Light Verse
top of the world Masong write
syllable count
Woodstock guitar strings zing
Cagney yells “top of world Ma!”
song write
...
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Categories:
music,
Form: Cinquain
The Empty Nestabsence 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...
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Categories:
music, destiny, divorce, forgiveness, love,
Form: Suzette Prime
Remembering Your SongLet 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...
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Categories:
music, bereavement, death, first love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
NonViolent MusiciansWhen 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...
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Categories:
music, anger, body, fear, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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...
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Categories:
animal, bird, hope, music,
Form: Verse
My EurovisionWhen Abba wowed the audience:
the only part I've ever seen!
Oh, and the bearded lady who
(I think) was a drag queen.
...
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Categories:
music,
Form: Rhyme
Shaking My Thing Proud and Loudyellow 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...
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Categories:
music,
Form: Rhyme
Haiku XVItail feathers in flight
Snipe-reed flutes play hu-hu-hu
melody at dusk...
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Categories:
bird, music,
Form: Haiku
Music SwapQuote:""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,...
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Categories:
music,
Form: Quatrain
Gruelin 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...
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Categories:
music, business, culture, food, love,
Form: Bio
Beta Test ItSlap 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...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Pantoum
Hottie HottieYou 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...
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Categories:
music, beach, beautiful, dance, money,
Form: Ballad
Specific Types of Music Poems
Read wonderful music poetry on the following sub-topics:
appreciation, beautiful, country, free verse, funeral, haiku, inspirational, life, limerick, love, related, rock, rhyme, simile, teacher,
and more.
Definition | What is Music in Poetry?
Poems Related to Music
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