An Ode is a lyric poem that is used to address a particular subject. In the past, this type of poem was usually sung, but I’ve never tried to sing this poem so Im not sure if works.
In my poem “Ode to You: Wherever You May Fall”, I have tried to capture life and the people who live it. Life weather we like it or not has it’s goods and bads. Sometimes we are the reasons for the good things and sometimes, the reasons for the bad. The title may seem a little misleading. I am not referring to a “fall” as to the ground, or from a “fall from grace” or anything. Just simple the line of the poem that you most identify with is where you “fall.”
I wrote this poem almost as if I were giving a “toast” at a wedding, or some meeting. As you read this poem it might be fun to pour yourself a glass of champagne (apple juice if your not of age), hold the glass in the air and then read the poem aloud. Try it and let me know how it turns out.
Ode to You: Wherever You May Fall
To the lonely hearts in the crowded rooms
To the broken dreams that broke too soon
To the little ones, who grow too fast
To the old men in bars, who live in the past
To star struck lovers, whom the world hates.
To broken fisted brothers who can’t control their hands
To mute mothers, in their silent tears
To grim faced fathers, holing fast nights fears
To grinning fools, in their slipping nooses
To the wise man’s feet and the path he chooses
To kisses that tingle from head to toe
And leave both culprits caught in a glow
To the morning sun that fills with envy
To shine even brighter the love that is in me
To the teller of stories and the stories he tells
To the gypsy queen’s dances and in the freedom it dwells
To laughter alit by fire of a friend
To the answers waiting, just around the bend
To giving and loving and singing out loud
To dancing with my love, all alone in a crowd
To the wounded soldier, and the soldiers he wounds
To the burned out pastor, who berates a late groom
To grace born, through loves last breath
To the spark of hope in the darkest of depths
To the heavens and stars that light a night sky
And carry you to places never seen by mans eye
To the wind that howls, and chaps the cheek,
tears the eye and gives wing to feet
To the whisper of glory form cancers deathbed
To the few gone before, shinning like stars on our heads
To the sparkle in the eye of those lost in thought
To brave new worlds an author has wrought
To the whispers on mountains and the crashes on seas
To the trickle of laughter that’s found in a spring
To the sweetest calm, and most violent storm
To the smell of roses, on a summer morn
To the silence… oh, the silence that speaks
To the burned out, torn out, sold out, loved out,
To the smallest of gestures, unseen by man’s eye
To leaving of this world, and to saying goodbye
Goodbye
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