December Musical Poetry Prompt

Posted by Bartholomew Barker ⋅ December 30, 2024 ⋅ 17 Comments

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For the final Monday of 2024, let’s write a poem inspired by this piece of music. Please don’t do any research, just listen to the music and write from the emotions it evokes then post your poem in the comments below. Happy New Year!

About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.

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17 thoughts on “December Musical Poetry Prompt”

Gayane’s Adagio – Khachaturian

Sorrow

Longing

Remembering the past

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Posted by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris | December 30, 2024, 7:49 AM

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- Lovely, Gypsie. Thanks for sharing!
  
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  Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 30, 2024, 6:40 PM
  
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- I hear it, too.
  
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  Posted by Melissa Lemay | December 31, 2024, 10:44 PM
  
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Catching You

You were the whistle of a train
ripping through the velvet night.
I couldn’t catch you.

You were the V
of homebound geese.
I couldn’t catch you.

I always loved you
but you wanted something else.
I couldn’t catch you.

Now you’re a marker
I can touch.
I finally caught you.

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Posted by crazy4yarn2 | December 30, 2024, 9:49 AM

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- Excellent images, Nolcha! Especially the train. Well done!
  
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  Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 30, 2024, 6:42 PM
  
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  - Thank you, Bartholomew, and I hope 2025 brings you good health and joy!
    
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    Posted by crazy4yarn2 | December 31, 2024, 8:49 AM
Please play

The gentleness of your touch, my hearts delight.
The softness of your soul, melts into the moon light.
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Tranquility reaches deep inside.
A touch, I cannot deny.
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Play forever.
Play ceasing never.
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Each note, softer than the next.
Each note, my soul doth vex.
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A yearning for the past.
A fleeting memory, stashed.
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Notes sweeter than natures honey.
Memories ignited, just for me.
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Play, please play.
Let me relive that precious day.

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Posted by Chico’s Mom | December 30, 2024, 9:54 AM

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- Isn’t it interesting how powerful music can be? Nicely done, Jolene. Thanks for sharing!
  
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  Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 30, 2024, 6:46 PM
  
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  - Thank you 💕
    
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    Posted by Chico’s Mom | December 30, 2024, 6:46 PM
  - That piece was beautiful 🎶
    
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    Posted by Chico’s Mom | December 30, 2024, 7:51 PM
Moody Blue

People feel more than hear

another’s music. This

piece is too melancholy, heavy,

wet like winter rain

to please me this day. These

Instruments play sad

yet shrill, discordant notes.

I’m suddenly chilled

and discomforted

like the low grey clouds

lowering this end-of-year sky.

It is a graveyard’s echo,

a funeral dirge to my ears.

Compose a warmer tune,

bring sunshine to us again.

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Posted by llzranch | December 30, 2024, 3:05 PM

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- Excellent weather imagery. Thanks for writing to this musical prompt, Lin!
  
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  Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 30, 2024, 6:48 PM
  
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  - Thanks for your kind words.
    
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    Posted by llzranch | December 31, 2024, 9:10 AM