Hi Kat.
Don't get snagged by definitions. "Lyric" simply means "Set to music." The exact translation is, "with lyre accompaniment."
There are many different kinds. The sonnet and ballad are both easy to write.
If I am a poet,
a real understander or words,
then when will I show it,
how soon...
...writer, don't you think? *
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Have you heard vespers at St John the Divine?
by Tom Tomaszewaki
I park my cab
warm summer twilight
walk up to cathedral
too large for humans
a stairway to heaven
in stone built by hands long gone...
inside air still with incense
and hot candle wax
candle flames...