A misshaped guitar
does it play the same song?
Can it be strummed
just like the best?
Who decides whether
it's right or it's wrong
It's music to the one
who can distinguish its song
A misshaped guitar
reminds me of me
Maybe I don't measure up
to the standard of others
Does this make me
someone who's anything less?
I may dance to the song that I hear
If you listen with your heart,
you may want to join and be a part
Author notes
Please don't mention my name in your comments-I'll respond via IM's. Thank you!
Picture compliments of samplette.
In a list
A contest entry
- What's In A Picture by Samplette.
300 points, ended February 10, 2007, 11 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Just be happy with the baby. Some folk never get that far. I thought I wouldn't. But now I have three teenagers. I may have read this wrong. I do quite a lot of times, read it wrong..... Be wonderful parents. x
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Thanks for leaving me a comment on "May I Have This Dance?" It was only written for a contest which had to be about the guitar pictured-I just wrote what came to mind. Not about children-I have plenty of them, too, lol.
thanks again
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I will always join you buddy
We have always said that we could really have a ball together. Well this poem certainly reminded me of that. Well done my dear. hugs hugs
Jan
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what a unique write! i like this the best:
Who decides whether
it's right or it's wrong
It's music to the one
who can distinguish its song
wonderful write! great insight! thank you for sharing this. keep writing! God bless you always
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clever
i think that a guitar, no matter what the shape is- can sound good. it depends on the user of the guitar. i haven't heard of a misshappen guitar. the idea of that is very clever.
it kind of ties into the mis-shaped guitar. the word itself is mis-shaped and the notion of the literal word being mis-shaped appeals to me. wanna be ap friends? i'm new to allpoetry. my name's "sublime" and i'm a college student.
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Totally awesome..so true...and it comes across very naturally..
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Thank you so much!!!
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So true, and so good
You have so beautifully expressed this. I think a lot of us often feel like this, but I've never thought of it with that metaphor ... I will ever afterwards think of myself as a misshapen guitar.
Truth, wisdom, and good poetry, my friend.
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I often feel like a misshaped guitar. Nicely done. Thank you for entering the contest.
Sam
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A Point Mastered
You did ecceptionally well on this one. I love the illistration, it somehow fits us who are poetically, musically, artsilly (if that's a word) inclined. There are points when the rest of the world can't hear the awesome music right within' ear shot.
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And the band played on!!!!!
This was an excellent piece you penned for the contest. No matter the shape a guitar will play if it has the correct nuts and frets, oh yeah and better add some strings to go with it. LOL
A lovely tune you played for all of us from the title down to the last word. I feel the rhythm and I'm doing a little chair dancing right now. A magical tune from a magical poet. Thank you for sharing this concert with all of us. I hear Jimmie playing the Star Spangled Banner right now with his teeth. 
Best wishes in the contest with this golden piece. Love and God bless, Joyce 
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What a wonderful poem
I would join you even off key
I really liked this poem and what it had to say
Thanks for sharing
Warm thoughts
Frozentearz -
very well written
I like your translation of the picture. We all do dance to a different drummer, but the important thing is that we express what we feel in our hearts.
Good luck in the contest!
Ethereal Melody
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Misshaped no no
I think its a matter of whos playing your heart strings.....we all sing different songs.....as we all dance and sing too... the melody and tunes that come from our hearts....are just as unique and true....lovee your little dance and lovely shape too.....
Malabu
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Lovely
A way with words! You pulled a rabbit with this one...of course I relate musically and realistically in this metaphoric life! The last verse (stanza) just places the ribbon, because it asks one to look and hear and behold with an open mind, because we all have hearts that 'beat on different strings'.
Love it!
-J
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Lovely writing we all have differences yet learning to see the beauty or the heart of the individual through them. Thanks for the bunny you left on my page I have to ask is that real or could it be? LOL
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always dance to the beat or strum of your own tune. You can't go wrong. Excellent poem
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