trees
...Trees, big or small, soothe poets,
Big or small, they are advisors, artists
Who soothe the storms of the lonely souls,
They stand out like magicians
Before the subtle skies,
Trees soothe poets...
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Categories:
artistes, appreciation, nature,
Form: Free verse
Fluxus
...Cage & Ligeti comprise a musical pair
experimentalist artistes with rare flair
Simplistic sounds expressed in numerics
silence & metronome monotony epics...
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Categories:
artistes, music,
Form: Clerihew
Rehearsal
...A step towards crowning perfection,’
Notions of luck much like infection;
Before a show drop that conception:
Talents grow with good self-perception…
Blunders men should reduce to zero:
The on...
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Categories:
artistes, appreciation, beauty, care, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Trumpeting Their Voices To Space
...I
I had big plans to fast and pray: Maundy Thursday
More prayer than fasting, while preparing slowly
For the evenings bible study, I a weak disciple
Neighbors played their competing loud music, a...
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Categories:
artistes, art, emotions, happiness, music,
Form: Bio
Understandable Embarrassment From Mr President
...Five fine artistes combine The Outrageous
With love messages ‘Courageous’,
Their offered songs a triple grand
For an innumerable-like-sand:
For their slumping admirers catchers on hand:
Blokes ...
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Categories:
artistes, absence, appreciation, career, fun,
Form: Rhyme
To the Upcoming Artists
...Humble thyself for thou shall be exalted,
Be gentle to your fans, for your domain needs audience,
bragging is not the way to stardom,
be humble, gentle and inaudible..
I know many who bantered...
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Categories:
artistes, music,
Form: Free verse
Supporting Artiste
...SUPPORTING ARTISTE
When I used to tell people I was a film extra, or ‘supporting artiste’ as we preferred to be called, they would say, “How glamorous, mixing with all those stars.”...
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Categories:
artistes, film,
Form: Haibun
This Darling Little Book
...Arriving home
I’m all alone
And feeling rather low
For as I open up my door
Feelings of loneliness
Permeate my soul
All around me this and that
Though I don’t take it in
But wait now
wha...
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Categories:
artistes, friendship, giving, thank you,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
artistes, art, loneliness,
Form: Concrete
'far From Home'
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Far from home,
I feel so far from life.
From where do i start?
Not physically but within my heart.
It is not just a place to live,
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Categories:
artistes, blessing, childhood, emotions, happiness,
Form: Prose Poetry
Your Name
...__Your Name__
In the verdant macrocosm of summertide
Leaves on the merry boughs palpitate hearing your golden name.
The unremetting gush of Nyera-Ama river
Hasten in glee resonating thine name...
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Categories:
artistes, blessing, blue, boat, business,
Form: Blank verse
You Are Fire
...I have been blessed to come across many inspiring women in my life. From the women in my family and friends to the women in my office and my students. And the women who are my colleagues, fellow writ...
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Categories:
artistes, education, fire, girl, inspiration,
Form: Prose Poetry
To the Unknown Artiste
...People sing in praise of a lead performer;
And the person playing the second fiddle
Often goes unsung and unhonoured.
That is the fate of all such auxiliary artistes, say,
A guitarist strumming...
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Categories:
artistes, music,
Form: Free verse
Abstractly Phenomenal Butterfly Thesis
...She was an abstract woman in a clinical world
theoretically reasoning her notions were perfectly
discerning midst-chaotic sensibilities,
whilst her inane whimsicality kept semblances of...
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Categories:
artistes, allegory, butterfly, confusion, environment,
Form: Alliteration
Poets Are Poor
...POETS ARE POOR
Omawumi birthed venom yesterday
She won't marry me again because
I am a poet, she said poets are poor
Is my pen not worthy to buy her make up?
If poetry gives no money I will ...
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Categories:
artistes, abuse, age, art,
Form: Ballad
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