I wrote the following poem for Poetry Month two years ago. Today I turned it into lyrics and with very specific prompts/instructions created a song (male and female voices) using SUNU. I hope our colleagues here enjoy it. A link to my new song (free access) follows the original poem.
It's Poetry Month
If poets wail in the woods,
Do they make a sound?
If what we write goes unread,
Why on earth do we persist?
It is madness, I insist,
No one can cure 'till we're dead.
Will we be silent, or discouraged? No!
Let our voices resonate with our truth,
Be it sweet as a ripe pomegranate,
Or sour as cheap wine left too long uncorked.
We sing as best we can in harmony,
Or screech like rusty nails caressing slate,
E pluribus unum - one family,
Embracing every country, every state.
Our voices won't be silenced, nor our song,
For we were born to sing right notes and wrong.
Song from lyrics based on the above: https://suno.com/s/YEqFapQWXgTPK1cT
(If you listen to the song and enjoy it, please feel free to share the link but not a downloaded MP3 as the Lyrics are copyrighted by me but the generated music and voices I cannot distribute until I upgrade my account at SUNO--the link, though, is fine as it plays on their site. I've been working to create songs from a number of my poems and eventually will add my own cloned voice to mine and perhaps create an album.)
Apr 6
Apr 6, 2026 at 8:49 PM UTC
I wrote the following poem for Poetry Month two years ago. Today I turned it into lyrics and with very specific prompts/instructions created a song (male and female voices) using SUNU. I hope our colleagues here enjoy it. A link to my new song (free access) follows the original poem.
It's Poetry Month
If poets wail in the woods,
Do they make a sound?
If what we write goes unread,
Why on earth do we persist?
It is madness, I insist,
No one can cure 'till we're dead.
Will we be silent, or discouraged? No!
Let our voices resonate with our truth,
Be it sweet as a ripe pomegranate,
Or sour as cheap wine left too long uncorked.
We sing as best we can in harmony,
Or screech like rusty nails caressing slate,
E pluribus unum - one family,
Embracing every country, every state.
Our voices won't be silenced, nor our song,
For we were born to sing right notes and wrong.
Song from lyrics based on the above: https://suno.com/s/YEqFapQWXgTPK1cT
(If you listen to the song and enjoy it, please feel free to share the link but not a downloaded MP3 as the Lyrics are copyrighted by me but the generated music and voices I cannot distribute until I upgrade my account at SUNO--the link, though, is fine as it plays on their site. I've been working to create songs from a number of my poems and eventually will add my own cloned voice to mine and perhaps create an album.)
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