Best Adagios Poems

Snowfall prancers
Ballerina dancers
Gracefully, they pirouette in the air
Frosted crystals, though never a pair
Scene enhancing
Vision entrancing
Ballet romancing

Costumes white
Tumbling flight
Snowflakes flew in for their audition
Each posed in an Arabesque position
Swift Allegros
Slower Adagios
Pointed tiptoes

Emerging sun
Recital done
With risen mercury, the sunlight pelted 
Each tiny snowflake had been melted
Ballerinas lost
Tragic...

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Maestro – 4-23-24
Dedicated to Dr. Stanley Chapple.  Co-founder of Tanglewood. Conductor of the London Philharmonic.   Head of the Music School University of Washington.  Conductor of the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra.  Beloved Professor and so much more! 
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Maestro

Music flowed from...

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MUSIC TO MY SOUL

I can feel  music  in the air
It resonates in my heart
Their notes  floating  through  my soul
Bringing forth thousands of rhymes

From Adagios  to  andantes and allegrettos,
Their poetry flowing through my fingers
In guitar strings or piano keys
It's...

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In the fresca of her reckless dream
were halos, multi-colored 
Cynosure is simply glowing
with glamour, never knowing 
the dream, the wish, her fantasy
is fragile reverie
Is a place to fear, will waste her years
and where her whims have led

It will lead her on a lissome road
that's paved...

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The Get-together


Like crispy autumn leaves 
tinged in vibrant orange hues, 
that drop and freely float ;

Before settling for some rest,
Unless the breeze waltz
makes them dance to its tune.

We, the GOMCO 85, were,
rapt into lifeless routine,
Striving and working like Trojans;

Monotonous it might seem,
Yet content and tranquil,...

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Le Cirque Bleu

The spotlight is aglow through the gloam
The light an indigo ink modifying color
She swings her body with agility thrusting backwards 
upside down, with unseen wings,
an acrobat aerials amid the roar
She looks pretty with her fan in one hand,
long tresses flowing loosely  ...

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Steel kiss from phantom blades abounding,
Adagios anguished, lick, resounding,
Fierce hammers rage, in Darkness pounding-
In the hour of my night.

My beggared soul to grim remand,
Nestles deep 'neath an ebon sand,
Where gaunt and ghostly jackals stand-
In the hour of my night.

With chaliced draught of Desolation,
Toasting Twilight's coronation,
Embraced!...

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morning glories play
sweet summer adagios
listen with your heart...

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Elusive Gold

What was I to do

Ready when I was born
the message moved slower
as I labored faster

Every year It asked
why do you not hear
It tried in multiple tongues
dreams
thinking
asking
shouting

But

My shattered wings ceased to fly
unable to lift
severed imaginings
mired judgment
buried senses
another broken heart

Yet

Somehow
the scales of being
this weighing tray
opposite hunger
righted...

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