Forte Hanky Panky
...Bound so tight with your silken love
tends to excite that wild beast within.
The dark of a crow and light of a dove.
This collaboration I’m eager to begin,
you leave me breathless and sweating....
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Categories:
acoustically, emotions, lust, passion,
Form: Terza Rima
CONTEMPLATIVE GUIDANCE
...It is prophesied that
“Wisdom dwells
In contemplation;
There we must seek her...”
After contemplating a lesson I heard,
I now realize that there is...
...
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Categories:
acoustically, allegory, encouraging, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
COMPLATATIVE GUIDANCE
...It is prophesied that
“Wisdom dwells
In contemplation;
There we must seek her...”
After contemplating a lesson I heard,
I now realize that there is...
...
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Categories:
acoustically, allegory, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Newport 1965
...Newport 1965
(Or Dylan Goes Electric)
This was the dream concert
folk was at its peak
Pete Seeger, Joan Baez,
Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary
Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash,
Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and...
...
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Categories:
acoustically, music,
Form: Free verse
Interconnect and Embrace
...Written: October 15, 2023
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Hanging precariously on the landline pole,
The sun's beams dance, yet no heat console.
Akin to ...
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Categories:
acoustically, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Joe Bonamassa Inspiration
...Joe Bonamassa is famous for more than just guitar skills.
but as for the lovely array of ancient antiques,
His "Nerdville" house is filled with tools and artifacts.
Joe Bonamassa han...
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Categories:
acoustically, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form: Bio
The Missus Served Me High Test Coffee
...The missus served me high test coffee...
Ah... tis nothing more heavenly
(to one borne again devout atheist)
then a spring like January 18th, 2023
here at Highland Manor apartments
picturesqu...
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Categories:
acoustically, angel, appreciation, atheist, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Tongues
...Some languages are fluently translatable
but only by how the mouth
utters and shapes them,
they are too musical to be not sung,
like Gaelic; it was my mother’s tongue
and her grandmother’s elder...
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Categories:
acoustically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Full Proof of My Being
...I swear my world was frozen
When my confidence was stolen.
I swear My vocal pipes were broken
While my purpose was offloading,
And painful it was,
that I was just watching
When everything was...
...
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Categories:
acoustically, appreciation, art, cousin, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
The Blackyard
...(Dawn Chorus)
It was in Africa
that I learned to sing my love the loudest
and in the dawn of the Chorus,
Black love communicates acoustically.
Even if the day breaks,
it serenades all terr...
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Categories:
acoustically, adventure, black love, hope,
Form: Free verse
Broken Acoustics
...Audible
sounds
swimming
throughout
smoothness
...moving
dripping
refractions
bouncing
off lies
contrived
...propogation
volitionally
absorbing
waves
tinkering
acousticly
drummi...
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Categories:
acoustically, betrayal, conflict, emotions, image,
Form: Free verse
Teardrops Singing On My Notepad
...Sing oh Hummingbird Sing
Sing that beautiful love song so melodiously
The song that made him promise to love her endlessly
And made her fall in love with him hopelessly
He whispered, so luring, t...
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Categories:
acoustically, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Confined
...Dare your undesirable escape of emotion
Cease your glances of reverse direction
Our entities are of unison
Undeniable is the connection
Unfathomable, how strenuous it’s to imagine
Experience past and...
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Categories:
acoustically, life, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Song Veins
...through the vein of an old song
the antique gathered speed
sputtering and spitting rust
halos of smoke
engine overheating,
stranded in desperate city
cinderblock people are freaky
the song lay dead ...
...
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Categories:
acoustically, funny, music, travel,
Form: Free verse
Vows
...I SEE THE WAY I FEEL INSIDE,
LOCKED AWAY BEHIND ALL MY LIES.
I HEAR THE WORDS BEHIND MY
BACK, TRUTHFULLY IT'S ACOUSTICALLY
SAD.
WHEN THE CHORDS ARE PLAYED,
THERE'S A MELODIC HAUNTING IN MY MIN...
...
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Categories:
acoustically, confusion, death, dedication, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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