Poems About: LYRIC

Like the burglar who distracts
the guard dog with a piece of meat,
the poet, serving meager facts,
intends the words to be his treat. read more »

Was Shel Silverstein just being crass
in the lyric sung by Johnny Cash -
or was he being amazingly, subversively,
unamericanly ironic? read more »

I am an immigrant
quisling with various flags
when I enter my hut
I wear my ego and listen to CNN. read more »

Somewhere in the abandoned dark
Sweet song as a lark
Never can see where it is
Without its lyric something we miss read more »

Who loves all beauty loves beyond that we see;
The gods give him a vision doubly blest;
He sees the bloom upon the hawthorn-tree, read more »

To whom about my love I may share
That got stuck at dry like bokul flower read more »

In our Bible, the dream of Samuel is death,
As the clouds consume his form and bare him to Heaven--
The song from colored birds so lyric and sweet read more »

The lion will not be quicker than the ox
in pasture search,
the lamb and the bird
will be a poetical form, read more »

He fell in a hell of love with her
for Art's sake. She was a pianist.
He thought only of what she played,
and she loved him for listening. read more »

The Lady Muses, nine thou be
Comely, wise, I see such beauty, thine
Daughters of Mnemosyne`s Shrine
Titaness of Memory, Daughters of Gaea read more »

The best soundtrack that ever heard
which anyone may depart
by its own dramatic lyric
along it... read more »

Aphrodite is yours
to soak thru with passionate words
the drift of ancient continents
pulls your presence into my world read more »