Dreaded silence,
Of song unheard,
Melody rises,
With words deferred.
Harmony here,
With elegant trills,
And grace notes echo,
Bringing up thrills.
It’s not quite finished,
It has no words,
As chords pass by,
Fourths, fifths, and thirds.
No song to hear,
Missing its soul,
And violins cry,
As they try to cajole.
To remain unsung,
Is a dreadful hymn,
For beauty is songs,
With words to the brim.
Author notes
Title: To Remain Unsung
Let me make a point of this though. Songs do not need to be sung in order to be beautiful(take a wild guess and say I'm an instrumentalist). Songs played on instruments can be just as beautiful, if not more so that those sung. Or rather, the instrument does the singing for you.
A contest entry
- ~Options~ by Dead Hair.
625 points, ended December 16, 2008, 16 entries
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A very artistic take on the prompt. The rhyme scheme is great, and fits the topic very well. If you think of instrumentals this way, then it is easy to imagine some sadness in the songs without lyrics.
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wow... this is absolutely beautiful! Well done!!!
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“No song to hear,
Missing its soul,
And violins cry,
As they try to cajole.
To remain unsung,
Is a dreadful hymn,
For beauty is songs,
With words to the brim.”
I read this, and I didn’t think it was from you!!! You love classical :-P, I couldn’t believe you could even bring yourself to say something like that, lol. Very nice poem though Nichole! You still have to hear Nazca :-P
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Ugh, it was so hard to write that words are more important than the actual music of it. I'm almost thinking about going back and changing it, but I don't think it would flow as well with the prompt =/
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i like what you did with the prompt, i also liked what you said in your note, you're right sometimes an insturment can do the singing, fantastic poem, i loved it, best of luck in the contest
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