POETRY AND MUSIC

POETRY AND MUSIC



Just as good music is poetry with sound,

Good poetry should be music with words,

Hear the dawn chorus of chirrupingl birds

Then this hidden secret could be refound.



That's why we need the joy of chosen rhyme,

In the best poem meaning will always lurk,

It helps to make the stanzas more sublime.

But music can express the spirit of the work.



Set music to a verse and it becomes a song,

To lift the hearts of folk as they wend their way.

Song beautifies the soul as she strolls along,

Bringing much love and joy to yet another day.



Some claim music is the highest form of art,

But poetry follows quickly in the chase,

But place the two together from the start,

Musicality in poetry then takes first place.