Note By Note

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Note by Note

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music music is everywhere
the sound of music
can fill the air

it can slip right through the tiniest hole
it can fill a room
it can fill your soul

the power of music has great potential
its power to fill
is exponential

feeling deflated — hope won’t float
music will fill it up
note by note

it can fill the void in an empty life
it can obliterate sadness
eliminate strife

it can flow into the remotest part
filling full
a lonely heart

score or lyric in your favorite style
will fill your face
with a bursting smile

music is powerful and invasive stuff
but in this angry world
can there be enough

~ ~ ~

rob kistner © 2019

 

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  • 26 thoughts on “Note By Note”

    1. I’m happy that music is everywhere, although there are some kinds of music that I’d prefer not to hear! I like the sentiment in the tercet:
      ‘it can fill the void in an empty life
      it can obliterate sadness
      eliminate strife’
      and your poem made me smile, Rob.

      1. Thank you Kim, glad it turned up your lip tips! 🙂 i agree, not all music is my favorite, but I love to hear music because it is the expression of the human heart and spirit — and that is positive!

    2. There are actually some music that invades me like weed… growing inside until it fills me with itch… then I need something to clear my head… Led Zeppelin works.

      1. I hear you. Some poetry makes my skin crawl. We all have our favorites. That said, music is invasive Björn, but thank the muses for it. A world without music would be even more angry that it is already.

    3. So glad to see a poet go positive with this prompt – wish I’d thought of it! And yes music does permeate blood and bone vibrating each cell into harmony with itself. For that we can be truely grateful.

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