Best Lyre Poems

GIRL PLAYING LYRE - by Tadeusz Styka

I'm a sweet girl, 
Playing my lyre, 
Music does whirl, 
Quenching heart fire, 

Hair flying free, 
Eyes lost in...

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With hand upon the golden lyre
Her fingers intertwined the wire
With her hair, like burning fire
Rest upon her breast

The...

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Nero was a cruel, unfair emperor playing 
the lyre as his disguise to conceal his consuming guilt;
and he caused destruction without feeling
an ounce of pity...

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This is my Homophone contest submission     


Ewe No A Lyre

their once was a man with a bore
who worked down at the...

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Lyre that you strum
  Melody in hum
    A tale, myth or a thrum?...

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in meadows more verdant than evergreen
there is but an Orphic lyre that tingles
in dream’s delight,
haunting, husking, heaving
the songs my soul cannot reach
except in interludes of...

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The sunset whispers get together in the bowl
The electricity hands them over the momentum
The oranges in the soul a bit out of control
The golden darkness...

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Compare the lyre to an individual whisper
Using its perception in a character of song,
Title it together with a finer tune, and crisper
A voice with an...

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Loves Lyre


The days are longer than the marches
to the sunsets long awaited peace
of lovers lost in ego driven searches
for memories - too long away -...

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with her eyes smiling back
   at his furtive glances,
      she swishes and flings
     ...

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when a liar plays lyre
the ignorant
rash to dance madly
the wise
think fast, first...

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Sappho, fragment 118
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Sing, my sacred tortoiseshell lyre;
come, let my words
accompany your voice.

"Quoted by Hermogenes and Eustathius. Sappho is apparently addressing...

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Erato

Each of the nine Muses
Endeavor to inspire.
Erato, lyre in hand,
Engages with men's minds,
Elegantly with words ...
Each phoneme, each pattern
Encourages lyrics....

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Whisper you love me
and I'll tell the whole
world
We can dance fantango
The audience is the
World
So than it's time
So than we do
Shout it out
You love me
I'll send...

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Whisper you love me
and I'll tell the whole
world
We can dance fantango
The audience is the
World
So than it's time
So than we do
Shout it out
You love me
I'll send...

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