Sun 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
American 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
Seijaku
...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
Elegy 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
Melancholy'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
Music
...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
The 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
New 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
Clerihew 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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