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10 poems about music

10 poems about music

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A muse in music

Music stirs the emotions. It tells stories. It sparks memories. Great poetry does the same. So it’s no surprise at all that, for centuries on end, poets have found their muse in music. We’ve brought together 10 beautiful poems inspired by music, by writers from Thomas Moore to Gregory Orr. We’ve set them out in a beautiful digital booklet that you can download for free, ready to dip into whenever you need a boost.

A young person is focussed as they sit down and play music on a drum at one of our partner schools

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[Sample Poem]

To Be Alive by Gregory Orr

To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That’s crudely put, but…

If we’re not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?

A person stands to play the acoustic guitar at one of our partner organisations, as others play music around them

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