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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 Alligator Sashay
Circle left, hang on tight Don't get caught in an alligator bite Allemande left, what you want to do Is turn that alligator into stew Do-si-do, listen to the band Alligator shoes look mighty grand Roll away to a half sashay If...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, dance, humor, music,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member - MUSICISTA 1 -
evolving sound in time & space understanding participating in the poignancy of the moment connecting each with ...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member BM X ecphrasis piano
Rachmaniov 2nd movement of number 2* ...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member listening to the beach boys
sandals on my feet the beach boys' songs are playing a song melody pasadena song comes on little old lady like me...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Paradox vastness
Paradoxes Are stories with Apparent Responses of Rejection..or of An immediate Resonance Burning borders And a vastness Which cannot be Explained... ...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, music, self, words,
Form: Light Verse



Complicated to Simplicity
Bel Canto Him Speaking his feelings(part Four) Her Lover has done somethang wrong who's loving her when he is gone It's so real But it ain't right As someone who knows trust me this aint right It aint right I know were wrong I'm your lover when...Read the rest...
Categories: creation, culture, happiness, music,
Form: Ballad
Even Harder Than Spoken smooth Transitions
Bel canto Her asking Suport- Part three Somewhere they say that you and I are together somewhere they'll believe that we are one we found interest in us together we're interested in having fun My true love don't know we're together If it goes Your way we've...Read the rest...
Categories: music, absence, culture, devotion, love,
Form: Bio
Complicated to Simplicity
Bel Canto (Part two) what they wish to achieve ____________________________ Oh yah of love might we proclaim to spread the word In Jesus name Oh Fouled be cleansed filth washed away that we have vowed this glorious day As my bride oh sorrows cease that we as one might...Read the rest...
Categories: care, love, music, romantic
Form: Bio
Complicated to Simplicity
Bel Canto ___________________ We sang a rendition of the Lovers fight song where two lovers asked the world what they were doing wrong her cursings tongue spoke until all her frustration was gone She soothed me She calmed me till I couldn't ignore her want for me her...Read the rest...
Categories: music, betrayal, break up, love
Form: Bio
Premium Member - DISSONISTA -
harmonic unease other worldly emancipation from tradition of intervals & chords in tone ...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member BM IX ecphrasis piano
La Campanelle* by Franz Liszt ...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member old time religion
old time religion knee slapping hand clapping songs the old rugged cross when the saints came marching in the best kind of praise indeed...Read the rest...
Categories: christian, music,
Form: Tanka
Cogent and the Diligent Gentlemen
The emblem on the pendant was new to all of the professors they sorted every detail from end to end they sampled and examined until were lofted dumbfounded. a miracle: something that made all in attendance stop to notice. They looked one another in...Read the rest...
Categories: culture, film, music, science
Form: Bio
Premium Member -S T R I N G I S T A -
commisioned narrative orchestration lyrically & poetically scored instrumentally programed in rhythimic harmony homogenously mimicing the voice sans a ...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member BM VIII ecphrasis piano
A Well tempered clavier* by Sebastian Bach ...Read the rest...
Categories: music,
Form: Monoku

Specific Types of Music Poems

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Definition | What is Music in Poetry?


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