my tribute to Patience and the fine art of joyful hope. i just borrowed the words but the music is all mine.

Serene, I Wait

my tribute to Inspiration, every day's most quiet need. i just borrowed the words but the music is all mine.

How Do I Love

my tribute to Propinquity, where there is no "I" nor "you". i just borrowed the words but the music is all mine.

I Do Not Love You

my tribute to the Departed, who continue to live in the hearts of those who love them. i just borrowed the words but the music is all mine.

Do Not Stand At My Grave

my tribute to Loss and all other seeming disasters. i just borrowed the words but the music is all mine.

The Art of Losing (a capella)

my tribute to the Dreamers... and also to those who enable the realization of dreams. i just borrowed the words but the music is all mine.


Bring Me All

my tribute to the Mad Girls and the things they make up inside their heads. i just borrowed the words but the music is all mine.


I Shut My Eyes

my tribute to Quiet Friends. distance is relative. i just borrowed the words but the music is all mine.

Quiet Friend

my tribute to Those Who Sink into the Darkness But Keep Fighting. because hope floats. i just borrowed the words but the music is all mine.

You May (a cappella)

poetry singing (as opposed to poetry reading) was borne out of wishing to write music but being unable to find words better than those already written by others.

the words belong to their respective writers. some are already in the public domain. however, the music was written, sung, and accompanied by my humble self... in the hope that someday i might find words of my own to fit my music.

please consider these my thanks to the poets who said exactly what i had wanted to say. poetry is meant to be heard.

g.mae