I never knew Poetry would mean so much to me. After everything that has occurred throughout my brief lifetime it is still the lone thing that I can depend on for a brief moment’s happiness.
When you think about all the many great poets from the early years, you’d think Poetry would receive more acclaim, but for some reason it doesn’t. That was my intention when I began compiling the poems to be featured inside The Composer, to bring the art of expression back to the top of the list where it belongs.
I know there are many poets out there that will agree with me when I say that Poetry is just more than a few stanzas of rhyming words. For some of us it is life, we know nothing else.
Music is something that inspires me to write. It is only when I hear a song that touches me inside my soul that I feel the urge to write my inner most thoughts down. If it weren’t for music I wouldn’t be able to express myself the way I have throughout the pages within this collection.
One of the greatest writers of all time Langston Hughes was inspired by music and created poetry with rhythm identical to music. I’ve read many of Mr. Hughes’s poems and have been touched and inspired to write from the music in my ear just as he did. So therefore you have it, poetry inspired by the great musicians throughout time. This was the opening song, turn your volume up and push play… Let the music began.
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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