What is your favorite song or music genre? What is your favorite poem?

Question

Let me explain. They say music feeds the soul and I believe Poetry does too. The best songs are also poems. I find that good music and poetry are very spiritual things. My favorite spiritual song is a toss between Ave Maria and Bread of Life for traditional songs but I also love some contemporary such as Gather us in. My favorite poet is Grace Noll Crowell she is an amazing spiritual poet but not too famous.

Answer 1

R&B
I ain't mad at cha-2pac
The raven-Edger allen poe

Answer 2

I like all kinds of music except rap. I have a million favorite songs, but one I can't get enough of here lately is "It's Going By the Book" by Johnny Cash, also "The Holy Heart" by The Praise Band. Not that in to poetry.

Answer 3

My favorite song -- is Our Father (set to the tune of Ave Maria).

I agree with you regarding music and poetry (and the best songs also being poems).

My favorite poem -- Hound of Heaven (though a bit of a difficult one).

Cordially,
John

Answer 4

Country Music
Robert Frost

Answer 5

my favorite poem : She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Answer 6

my favorite music genre is r&b and soul. i r& b cuz some song i can relate. sometimes u can just sing along wit it cuz it that deep. my favorite song is unfaithful by rihanna. i can relate 2 it. sometime i can sing it in public. i know how 2 sing. i dont like people hearing me sing cuz some people just b hatin. i like 2 keep it secret. dont have a particular poem i like.

Answer 7

My favorite song is, "Dante's Prayer," by Loreena McKennitt. Among those you listed, I only recognize, "Ave Maria." If you like that, you would love Loreena McKennitt.

Answer 8

I adore "Ave Maria" and it's a most wonderful experience to sing it! While in college, I took voice lessons, and this was one of the songs we worked on. Learning it and performing it was a most ethereal experience.

"Why Have You Abandoned Me" is sung on Good Friday. It's so so beautiful, and again, such an experience to sing!

There is a Baha'i song called "Great Expectations." I had it once upon a time, but can't remember what I did with it, for I no longer have it. I've looked for it everywhere to no avail. Dang.

My favorite music genre would have to be anything flamenco-ish, whether it's traditional flamenco (there are several styles of that alone), what's called New Flamenco (a softer version, wonderful for relaxation and meditation), and Rumba Flamenca, a genre that's only done by the Gipsy Kings, at least to my knowledge. They are my favorite musical artists of all time. Lucky for me, they perform in Los Angeles every summer. Yes!!!

I love Pablo Neruda's poetry, he was a genius. Here are two examples of his work, which are my favorites:

I LIKE YOU WHEN YOU ARE SILENT

I like you when you are silent because you are as though absent,
and you hear me from afar, and my voice does not touch you.
It seems as though your eyes had flown away from you
and it seems as though a kiss had shut your mouth.

As all things are full of my soul
you emerge from all things, full of my soul.
Butterfly of slumber, you seem like my soul,
and you look like the word melancholy.

I like you when you are silent and you are as though distant.
And you are as if plaintive, a butterfly cooing.
And you hear me from afar, and my voice does not reach you:
let me be silent with your silence.

Let me speak to you as well with your silence
bright as a lantern, simple as a ring.
You are like the night, hushed and full of stars.
Your silence is of the stars, so distant and simple.

I like you when you are still because you are as though absent.
Distant and mournful as if you had died.
One word then, one smile is enough.
And I am happy, happy that it is not true.


THE MORNING IS FULL

The morning is full of storm
in the heart of summer.

Like white hankerchiefs of farewell the clouds travel
the wind rattles them with its travelling hands.

Innumerable heart of wind
beating over our enamoured silence.

Buzzing between the trees, orchestral and divine,
like a tongue full of wars and of chants.

Wind that takes in swift plunder the dry leaves
and derails the beating arrows of the birds.

Wind that tumbles her in a wave without foam
and substance without weight, and fires leaning over.

Her mass of kisses bursts and sinks
battered in the door of the summer wind.

Answer 9

Black Sabbath - Sabra Cadabra or In to the void