Atonal Poems

Premium MemberSun and Storm Song

...Triptych 8-20-25 Sponsor: John Anderson
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sun and storm song

eerie storm warning
light swallowed by ebony
banshee ballads rise
in mantras of hum...
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Categories: atonal, rainbow, song, storm,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberAmerican Cacophony

...Microtonal mayhem misses the mark
a triple concerto for sirens, drones & bullets
groaning ghosts pluck piano strings
extramusical praise: present (& past/future)
we're going around & round (sings...
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Categories: atonal, dark, music, surreal, word
Form: Free verse


Kindle that love

...All the rhythmic beats of the heart were wet 
The happiness of your return is in the happiest tears

In the silent cloudy pond of the blue sky of the green veins
My excitement enjoys a bath of ni...
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Categories: atonal, i miss you, love,
Form: Free verse

Tingle Linging

...Sweet sounds softly
You make me want to sing
Sweet sounds
move me
I wanna do my thing
I gotta hankering for you...
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Categories: atonal, beautiful, celebration, culture, dance,
Form: Acrostic

Gush-Gush Risque Albarino and Merlots

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Gush Potatoes

2 cups of sour cream
5 Tablespoons horseradish
1?2 cup of white cheddar
1 Cup of grated parmesan heavy cream
3 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 tablespoon of lemon zest
1 Tablesp...
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Categories: atonal, beautiful, dance, engagement, fashion,
Form: Bio


Premium MemberSeijaku

...Seijaku – 8-1-24
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Seijaku

Serenity abides with tranquility
Abiding in beauty
And deep respirations of satisfaction
Ready
	Alert
Overlooking t...
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Categories: atonal, life, peace, time,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberElegy for Old Growth

...Elegy – 7-17-24
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Elegy for Old Growth

Through measures of metered melancholy
The tattered winds sing a rent elegy,
A pensive wai...
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Categories: atonal, death, life, nature,
Form: Elegy

From the Archives of Men Series

...Dear Super Man,

           My name is Blippen Snickel
of Duessie Commonens. I seek your knowledge
of the CODA Atonal Scale Laser. Which will be
 sent to the planet Mars, on the Rocketship Triss...
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Categories: atonal, analogy, fantasy, film, money,
Form: Bio

Atonal Jam Fried Bread and Gumbo

...With no specific tone or direction.
And , than suddenly: Whoomp! the tone began to change
it devloped into a"whoomping groove" 
it's beleived to dereive from Pickett
the lyrics said
early one mo...
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Categories: atonal, character, love, magic,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberMelancholy's Garden

...Lost in a wistful arbor, where malaise blooms,
Mists flower in hypnotic bleak violet dusks
Shades of brooding melancholy  
Bruise my treasured bouquets of dreams
And plod through ponderous mists ...
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Categories: atonal, garden, sad,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMusic

...Mystical labyrinth of twisting harmonic warnings
Gazing into infinity’s composing handiwork –
 Moonbeams in silver sung sonatas –
  Ivory hued cantatas resolved from heart pacing crescendos
Sprin...
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Categories: atonal, music,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Gift of Christmas

...The Gift of Christmas

Some people say Christmas in this present time
Wanders lost
Through flashing ads and tinsel carelessly strung
On an artificial bough.

Some people say the Spirit of Chri...
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Categories: atonal, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNew Year's Resolutions

...New Year's Resolutions 

This new year marches into view
Brooding and still with empty calendar pages
For this pilgrim on a pilgrimage past new mile markers
Engraved with resolution quoting harm...
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Categories: atonal, new year,
Form: List

Premium MemberClerihew Schoenberg

...The atonal composer Arnold Schoenberg
as an artist* no one could curb
A portraitist who never was fazed
as into the eyes we gaze




*https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/392587292505603455/...
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Categories: atonal, art, muse, people,
Form: Clerihew

He Haw, I Cried

...Hee Haw, I Cried 
By Sy Roth

With a mulish hee haw, 
I wrap myself in my own divine comedy.
Commedia dell’arte path 
For a blind mercenary of his own fate.

An ormolu wonder stood before me-...
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Categories: atonal, conflict,
Form: Free verse

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