Category: Poems with Music

A Prayer

Posted on by Brian Varcas in Poems with Music

At Wounded Knee

A severed dawn

A single crow

That hovers in despair

Silenced by such loss

And now

We kneel

In wordless prayer

For end to wars

Incline our heads

Towards the earth

So for this time

Our faces of forgetfulness

Remember and recede

Audio version read by Kiy Anjali.
Music: “With the wind in our hearts” ©John McGhee 2025

Taken

Posted on by kiyanjali in My Poetry, Poems with Music

This turning earth

Feels the wound

We note the unbearable

Look to the back of the moon for solace

Fill our hearts to overflowing

Beauty remains

Calls us ever closer

Audio version of “Taken” read by John McGhee.
Music: Gnossienne No. 1 composed by Erik Satie.
Performed and arranged by John McGhee. This arrangement copyright John McGhee 2025.

Image copyright Bruce Granger 2025.

Emerging

Posted on by kiyanjali in Poems with Music

Within the shining seed  

An inaudible heartbeat    

A hundred dark and moonless nights  

Leafless in the soil    

Rains come  

Still the walls enclose    

The worm turns  

Breathes  

Now the great green shoot!

Audio version of “Emerging” read by Kiy Anjali.
Music: “Unearth” from the album The Husk 2020. © Julius Way 2020.

Unfinished

Posted on by kiyanjali in Poems with Music

These numbered days

Like coins

Stacking and falling

And yet we speak of more

Tread upon tread

A still eye watches over us

Unseen

Audio version of “Unfinished” read by Kiy Anjali.
Music: “Goodbye” composed and performed by Lucy Crowden. ©Lucy Crowden 2007.

Renewal

Posted on by kiyanjali in Poems with Music

A million stars have come my way

And the wind on my back soothes where it touches

I cannot speak of delight

For it comes to me unformed

And I lie within its breast

Audio version of “Renewal” read by Kiy Anjali.
Music: “Fly Free” composed and performed by Sean McGhee. © Sean McGhee 2025.

Image © Bruce Granger 2025