I’ts been a while since we have posted a new Zumwalt poem, but Zumwalt is alive and well and one never knows when one will receive something in the mail that we can post here.
Appreciate those that still follow this blog and in the meantime, will try to keep this site from completely vanishing from the google search engine by posting now and then.
For those that like music, there are a few pages on this site addressing that topic. They aren’t easy to find, so I will call out one in particular: Must Listen To Music
The author that provided this page, believes that music is music, and that even classifying music as great, good, mediocre and poor is a worthless and impossible activity. However, there is some music you should check out and this is what is listed here.
Whether you have heard everything listed or you haven’t heard any items on the list, you can do the author a favor and in your reply to this post, list music that you think the author should listen to. If I just get one reply back, I will know this site is again attracting readers and can then maybe use this to entice Zumwalt to eventually provide another poem for us to post.
zumpoems 
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Music! Music!
Where shall I start?
A gymnasium for the emotions
Each to their own I say
I know what I like; I like what I know
Though with an ear to the new
And then once again
Stuck in the pasted on role “poet”
At the mercy of metaphor
I offer one of mine
A humble gift to music
And to zumpoems
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FOR MUSIC
My portion to walk
These barren, wasted hills
Knuckled and gaunt
And stiff with old loam
Flow down through the world’s ebb
All among dark strangers
Whose hourglass
Runs thick with dream
Bent upon the strait path
I have no whim
To tell each fashioned note
As truly as some well tuned liar
But choose instead
To take the same old number
Rip from its womb untimely something new
And make it count
For music
For music
Has unmanned me, aye
And stole my reason
To make cause with those
Who are not privy to this openness
Who have ears and do not
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Ben — thanks for the post and poem. Did it get cut off? your last line is “Who have ears and do not” and appears to be the first line of another verse. Sorry that word press looks like it truncated it. Please post remainder.
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No, it wasn’t cut off. this is how it is supposed to be. Perhaps it would be helpful to reread it with this knowledge. That’s all she wrote. 🙂
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Ben, got it! Thanks!
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🙂
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You were one of my favourite and first follows, then you followed me , I am always pleased to see you. I shall send you some music 💗💜💝
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willowdot21, thanks!
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It’s the truth and I am glad to see you back! Do you remember the poems on War every Sunday !
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willowdot21 — not sure of the reference. I am the owner/admin of this site, but not the same as Mr. Zumwalt. Anyway, I am the one that visits your site when I do get on wordpress — just don’t remember the reference to War poems.
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I thought you instigated the Journal For Poetry Challenge#2012 I wrote a poem about war or a war poet for a year… I must be confused! take no notice of me 🙂
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No problem.
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You are definitely attracting readers. Glad you are back. I agree about classification, for music as with most things. Humans love labels. Anyway, here is a poem about music and poetry, from Songs for a Beloved Friend:
The Sound of Rhythm
Poetry, like music,
has its own demands
and makes its own allowances
where to breathe, when to soften
where to slow down or speed up
what to emphasize
and what should speak for itself
freedom and structure intertwined
sound and rhythm
offering a different gift
to every listener.
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Monica,
Thanks for the great poem on rhythm!
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