This poetry contest was posted at AllPoetry.com in April 2023.

RULES: 20 lines Max
Any aspect of music, is acceptable.  The poem should inspire us to listen, play, compose or share music more.

ON MUSIC, the best poems will be featured on my website (www.drdianateaches.com)

I will allow the use of Chat GPT, but you should edit any such poems very carefully.  Please be sure to write “assisted by ChatGPT”, or generated by ChatGPT if that is the case.

Sweet music by Sen99 (winner)

Favourites change weekly
My favourite is both sweet and sour
Like a boiled humbug or a dark truffle

Consonant cocktail spiked with dissonant
Each note a rubbery intonation
Multihued multiphonic squalls
Palms smashing clusters
Alternate chords voice leading
To a harmonic paradox

Rhythm bent and stretched
Each beat is a pitch bend
Time is forever bending
Infinite elasticity

No words to this song
A purple lyricism of the unknown
Meta language of saxophone tongues
Entwine in hot kisses
Climax in a Bacchanalian symphony
A rhythmic orgy of opposites

Finally, I play the triangle

The Song of April

by David Mayerhoff

The winter moon
beams light
on the land under the sea
like an LED shines on an attic’s crevices

its rigors cast revealing shadows
on the ghosts of years past

the pillows curl and crunch
under the head of weights
as we hibernate the months away
looking to blast out in song

yes we yearn to sing
the song of April
a choir of budding trees drive the sneeze of joy
awakening laughter and life
that flames the hearth
and claps at the body now wanting to be let out

showing the world
the melody of angels
singing of our wept joy

BIO: David Mayerhoff is an emerging writer and poet, with a background in psychiatry. He has a WordPress blog and you can also find him via FaceBook. Link: https://allpoetry.com/David_Mayerhoff#t_main

Medicine for Stress by Anonymoussoul23

Whenever I feel a bit down,
Its you music, who turns my mood around

*So plug in your earphones, forget the mess,
Its you music, the best medicine for stress*(2x)

Whenever my anger erupts like an active volcano,
It you music, who ceases it down by notes of a soothing piano

*So plug in your earphones, forget the mess,
Its you music the best medicine for stress*
(2x)

Whenever I feel internal scars,
It you music that heals them by strumming guitars,

You have no language,
You’re more than blissful package….

*So plug in your earphones forget the mess,
its you music the medicine for stress*
(2x)

Its you music, who boosts my tired soul
Giving it a new goal..
Its you music, My chill pill
Giving good vibes, that I can I will!!

*So plug in your earphones forget the mess
Its you music the medicine for stress*
(3x)

Bio: Dr.Farhaan is a dentist by profession in Chennai, India. He is a student of hospital adminstration and specializes in sports dentistry. He has compiled 8 anthologies and co authored 20 of them.