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 dream, 
Lyre defines me, 
Sad strains soft scream, 

Song of the lyre
Calls out to you, 
Hands do inspire
Melody blue, 

I...

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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 music that she plays, it tells
Of love that's lost, and broken spells
Tolling like cathedral bells
Down deep inside her chest

From 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 for those he governed with distrust.


Why did he want to destroy a city so mighty and glorious,
and replace it with...

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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 local bizarre 
the bore eight corn colonels four lunch
and blew genes whir awl the man war

owe the bore eight serial...

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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 moonlight’s chant,

as the nearness of grasses twirl my hair
dancing with inner wolves
in velvet chorus...not of moaning trespasses
but for now,
if only...

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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 stirs the dormant venom

My horizons crumble in the pink petals
As you let all the birds fly into ...
My balance the...

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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 opinion shall belong.

The dance in all perspective, will arrange
A silence of a kind, with pause between-
With undulating goals where rhythms...

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

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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 - to reach.

The scent of you, like flowers, slowly faded
washed away in tears of selfish fear
as war has left us all...

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with her eyes smiling back
   at his furtive glances,
      she swishes and flings
         ebony hair forward over
            her left...

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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 her lyre. The legend is that Hermes made the first lyre."



The following are Sappho's poems for Attis or Atthis...

Sappho, fragment...

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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 a shout out
To you
Say you'll marry me
And wanna keep me
Yours
Cause there's a lot of
Loving
And places to explore
So than we're lovers
Let's...

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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 a shout out
To you
Say you'll marry me
And wanna keep me
Yours
Cause there's a lot of
Loving
And places to explore
So than we're lovers
Let's...

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