Today in music, there are a lot of different genres. Especially with new ones coming about every few months, it can be hard to keep track of the music we love. Music is a tool that inspires me and truly keeps me going. I’ve loved music ever since I was born, really, and when I was about eight years old, my third-grade class had a book project. We had to write about our dream job and what we wanted to be when we grew up, and then we had to draw it. In the book, I wrote that I wanted to be a singer. Back then, I wanted to be famous and make money; nowadays, I want to relate to people. I wanna be the person that someone can listen to you and say, “Hey, I know how this feels. I’m going through this right now.“ Music connects us, and it’s been that way for centuries (maybe even eons!)

Every so often, I can find a song or a poem that I find inspirational to my songwriting. And there is nothing better than reading something that further inspires you if that makes sense. In my opinion, if you’re able to read something that inspires you and further is your craft, go for it. I feel like music can be something incrediblyInspirational in the sense of leading us in the direction that we’re meant to follow if that makes sense (that sounds like I’m trying to talk about a cult, which I’m not. I watch too much true crime, and I’ve read a bit too much into Jonestown.)

In “Music” by Juhan Liiv, the poem mentions finding harmony in music and how it’s considered immortal. I feel it uses lyric without being entirely lyrical; my reason is that when something is considered lyrical, people think it should rhyme. However, I do not. There are so many artists who write songs, and occasionally the lyrics don’t rhyme, but it still makes sense. When I write my lyrics, I prefer to make them rhyme when possible. However, there are times when they don’t, and they still share the same feelings and emotions that I was trying to evoke. In a way, this poem also uses imagery in that it talks about stars, the sun, flowers, and tears. With this poem, the more I read it, the more I see in my brain. When I read or even write something, I picture as much as I can in my brain. I’ve written lyrics, and I could hear John Legend singing them in my brain, and I could see him sitting at a piano in a dimmed room with pine trees covered and snow outside, and weirdly enough, I could also somewhat smell the pine trees. I could tell you how everything looked, and I’m sure you’d be able to picture it too. At least, I hope you will. Lastly, I believe this poem uses metaphor because in lines 3 through 8, the poem states, “Is it infinite… or in the stars” (Liiv, lines 3-8). Those five lines, while showing me different images in my head, draw comparisons to each other that are pretty wonderful.

Lastly, I will say that I highly recommend this poem, not because I like music by because I love everything that’s going on the more than I read it. I can see things, I can hear things, and I can picture myself everywhere as I read. So they spoke to me a lot. I am very grateful to have stuck with music and allowed it to guide me to the places I belong or that I feel I belong. Music brought me closer to the people I love most, and I am happy that it did.

“Music” by Juhan Liiv: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/54737/music-56d2356da6365