Clerihew Bartok
...Hungarian Bella Bartok
gave music great shock
from gesture&fom
he veered away from the norm...
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Categories:
bartok, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Bernstein Visits
...Bernstein Visits
by Odin Roark
Bernstein-infused reverie
Unexpected connections
Dissonance merging
Like Central Park
Pathways disappearing
Reappearing
Amidst boulder and street lam...
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Categories:
bartok, music,
Form: Free verse
Cogito Ergo Sum
...If a light thinker, I am superficial...
If ponderous, I am the elephant
in the room, unwanted and unloved.
If I think at all, I am minority,
wandering from problem to conclusion—
again..again
br...
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Categories:
bartok, introspection, world,
Form: Free verse
Culture Club
...Before extravagant, painted musicians
with fantastical hats and synthesizers
crooning 80's melodies and harmonies,
there was us.
A small band of two conjoined families
with an insatiable hunger ...
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Categories:
bartok, art, imagination, life, music,
Form: Free verse