Music (sonnet) by Anthony Lane Stahlhut

Yes music. For me its part of life just like love. You cann tell a mood of someone usually by what they are listening too.
Music love and poetry.
All fit togethet prefrectly. Great work
Jonathon.

Nicely done Anthony, music and poetry are twins. To be good they have to resonate throughout our being.
Whether it is a beautiful song, or purely orchestral, to be good, it should reach something deep inside us. This is good.
Brian

Beautiful work, Anthony. I love the rythm to this, and the message.

This is gonna be a hard decision 🙂

Your poem hits exactly the right note! Music is why I write poetry (or try anyway). The rhythm of a word will begin to sing in my head. It will run up and down a scale, creating images in my mind that won’t go away until I at least jot them down and some never go away until I put them all together in a full blown poem….but it is the musicality (is there such a word?) of the words that drive me to it. Music is my first love and for years I managed bands and was and still am in awe of those that can actually create music.

This is for that contest… isn’t it? Well, if YOU are entering it.. I’m not because you ALWAYS win. 🙂 (Could be because you’re AWESOME…but that’s besides the point. LOL)

I was in choir for four years in HS, and I sing daily. I’d never go on American Idol, but I do enjoy it. That’s why many of the photos of my mother in the “Letter” series were of her singing because we’d go out and sing karaoke together. 🙂

I feel the rhyhm and the music in your poem! Next to music, poetry is the most sublime of the Arts, precisely because they are so similar. Can we possibly explain the wonder and peace that is felt when all of the pieces of the work hang together in such a harmonic whole? Maybe it resonates with how we are constructed and function as humans. Who knows? Nice write!

Jim

Music; the universal language. If countries would just play music instead of having wars….
I am a trumpet player and just love to get lost in the music.