Hold the Applause
...Hold the Applause – Pick a Title Vol. 52, 6-8-25, Sponsor Edward Ibeh
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Hold the Applause
Hold the applause
As the last note holds it’s breath
Befo...
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Categories:
arias, life, song,
Form: Free verse
Aaronic Sonnet in a Face
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what if a sonnet had a face
and hands aimless beard coarse
as scouring pads licki...
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Categories:
arias, love, people, poetry,
Form: Shape
Invitation
...Enter, this way,
don't mind the dank shadow-crawling tunnel,
nothing has lived here for years.
Antechamber ahead, no need to crouch now.
In this chill hall you can admire a black moon
pinned t...
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Categories:
arias, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rhapsody of Color and Light
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Written: January 28, 2025, for contest
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Maples dance in fugue autumn's breath,
Symphony of mistral whispers,
In rhapsody, crimson ...
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Categories:
arias, autumn, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
Soprano Soloist
...A distinguished soprano named Dinah
sings arias in North Carolina.
But her favourite thing,
without doubt, is to sing
selections from Handel's Messiah.
With extraordinary vigor and pith
she s...
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Categories:
arias, christmas, music,
Form: Limerick
Moonstone Melodies
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Let me conjure some mystical moonstone melodies
A symphony of sapphire strains and ruby rhapsodies
A harmony of hessonite hymns and pearlescent praises
A litany of lapis lazuli lullabies and...
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Categories:
arias, song,
Form: Free verse
You Should be Dancing!
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All followed the lore, drawn to the cultured door
Arias rushed in score with Puccini lovers galore
All to hail in glore, the cherished Master's store
Then, the ROAR! Gratitude for the first dra...
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Categories:
arias, culture, dance, hope,
Form: Rhyme
crossing over
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"Today I am a joyous soul for across that bridge I will stroll." ~ poet
seraphs serenade the skies
strains unheard by mortal ears
chilling the darkness with notes
of ethereal...
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Categories:
arias, death, faith, heaven, home,
Form: Jueju
valhalla weeps
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"There is nothing in the desert ... and no man needs nothing." - TE Lawrence
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providence …
vast-upon-vast ...
Deucalion, gifter of cities, met
do you not now see your charge?
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Categories:
arias, analogy, fantasy, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Wind Chime
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I've somehow pondered about the
rush of air
of how I could be lulled on billows, and
yet,
its notes upon my flesh eludes me--
as if in midnight trailing, weeping in refrains
thi...
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Categories:
arias, nostalgia, sound,
Form: Imagism
Adaptation
...Minds in a Fugue
rambling
over my words
never
say what I really
wanna say
stop asking me questions
Pause cause of the reality
cause and effect
or is it truth or dare
really could you
car...
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Categories:
arias, music,
Form: Ballad
The Red Rose Declines
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The red rose declines
as sunsets fade in time
The distance spreads before me
On a twilight summer eve.
Days of the sweetest bliss
Symphonies of a kiss
Still linge...
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Categories:
arias, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
My Dream Girl
...My dream girl's not a doll, no Kewpie cutie,
Or an heiress, or an actress on the screen.
She's neither nun nor acrobat,
Nor wears fine feathers in her hat,
No frump for Trump Republican,
No beau...
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Categories:
arias, dream, humor, imagination, romance,
Form: Rhyme
To Live and Breathe Creating
...To Live and Breathe Creating
…for some time
again
to rapidly wing
into joy
creating
with words as heartbeats
and lines
each sketched for breath
as these pens with their inks
draw...
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Categories:
arias, art, beauty, creation, dance,
Form: Free verse
Suspended In A Sunbeam
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Quote by: Melancholy Of Innocence
LOVE is the spark within the speck illuminated & suspended in a sunbeam.
A ray of sunbeam falls across her face as she plays piano
a warm sunligh...
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Categories:
arias, beauty, music,
Form: Free verse
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