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Fall And Rise

Posted on August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 by Erin B.
Listen carefully,
the fall and rise struggling
to be heard.
This song was familiar,
full of loneliness
an old ballad imprisoned
in his ghost.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on Life, Poems on MusicTagged ballad, fall, ghost, heard, imprisoned, listen, loneliness, old, rise, song, struggling

Try to Understand

Posted on June 17, 2021August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
Beauty expressed by art
can awake in us
a sensation so whole
that we speak of these things
and try to understand.

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Posted in Poems on Beauty, Poems on MusicTagged art, beauty, sensation, understand

Song of Light

Posted on June 8, 2021September 5, 2022 by Erin B.
The inexhaustible
song of light was indefinable
and vaguely recognizable
if I had only heard it in words.

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Posted in Chasing the Light, Poems on MusicTagged light, song, words

Blind Fall

Posted on April 3, 2021August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
A blind fall
had her frail moorings
open suddenly,
and a burst
of faint music evoked
incommunicable emotion,
like a wave trailing in her wake.

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Posted in Chasing the Light, Poems on Beauty, Poems on Music, This One is for YouTagged blind, burst, emotion, fall, frail, music, wake, wave

Billie Holiday

Posted on July 5, 2020August 4, 2022 by Erin B.
I promise to
love you
the way Billie Holiday
sings.

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Posted in I Am Woman, Poem on Love, Poems on Music, This One is for YouTagged love, promise, sings

Sing

Posted on July 5, 2020August 4, 2022 by Erin B.
I live
to sing,
you know.

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Posted in Poems on Life, Poems on MusicTagged sing

Everything

Posted on May 19, 2020August 4, 2022 by Erin B.
A present, 
rare and wonderful.
Music proved to be everything.

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Posted in A Simple Life, Poems on Happiness, Poems on MusicTagged everything, music, present, rare, wonderful

Phantom Grief

Posted on April 16, 2020August 4, 2022 by Erin B.
Dancing slowly to the ruined music,
phantom grief
and long drawn gloom.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on Music, Poems on SadnessTagged grief, music, sadness

A Dance

Posted on April 15, 2020August 4, 2022 by Erin B.
We had a dance.
I loved the music,
but it sounded sweetest in the dark.
By skylight it was our devil's psalmody.

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Posted in Poem on Love, Poems on MusicTagged dance, dark, love, music
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