No Apologies Just Poems
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Don't Roll Your Eyes
When you tell a friend
You want to be a musician
They just roll their eyes
Well let me tell you something
If it weren't for the musician
You'd never have anything aesthetic to play on your radio
You'd never have anything prompting your high school memories
Or your honeymoon
Or the first time you fell in love
The trip you took with your buddies
The birth of your child
Just remember
The musician
Is what makes life beautiful
Don't forget it
And don't roll your eyes
The next time someone you know
Wants to become a musician
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About the Book
Intimate and Reflective
Some poets write what they think people want to hear, but that is not this book. This book does not contain poems about nature and how “green the grass is over on the hill…..”
This book contains poems about music, musicians, and musical instruments. There are a few odd ones thrown in – a fictional piece about my parents, two nice sentimental pieces about my father, an upbeat piece on Christmas, and a few vintage pieces from Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickenson, Herbert Trench, Izumi Shikibu, Lizzie Lawson, Michael Drayton, Robert Louis Stevenson, T. S. Eliot.
These poems are a direct communication to you, the reader. If you wanted to say that some of them are written in the form of reviews, you could say that. That would be totally accurate. These are easy to read and understand, and many were written while I was in college – I had accidentally discovered that I wanted to become a musician, and I did. My passion for music was so strong that it became the theme for this book.
The two poems about the acoustic guitar were written before I bought my own guitar. With precision and contemplative skill, these poetic pieces explore creation and loss, fragility of being, rhythm and rest, painful yearning, anger, frustration and idiosyncratic moments of private reckoning.
About the Author
Teresa Lynn Milch is a poet and musician whose work dances at the intersection of language and melody. In the beginning, she studied computer science and got her certification in Local Area Networks. In addition, she earned her Microsoft Professional Certification. Then she changed her major and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Rhetoric & Writing, with a minor in Music. She brings a keen ear for rhythm and a deep appreciation for the music of words to every poem she crafts.
Her scholarly background in rhetorical theory and composition provides a framework through which she explores the musicality of poetry, emphasizing rhythm, cadence, and the resonance of words as instruments of expression.
Teresa was born and raised a valley girl in North Hollywood, and currently resides in Los Angeles with her three cats. Her father and grandfather were both musicians.