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 Holocaust
Performance tossed
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January 3, 2021
Trinet Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May
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 his baton
Like water from his English wellspring,
Taming trills in the perfume of restless scherzos
Coaxing shy adagios into lyrical splendor
Charming sinuous rondos into sinuous symphonies
Coaxing Thalia from cobwebs into tarantellas
In tangled woods and brick paths lined with cherry trees.
Bewitching a young baton to rise
Like a cobra hypnotized in west side stories
In concert with souls of Glorianna and Appalachia’s spring
And arabesques of rodeos to fanfares voces
Riding on concertos beckoning for east to oceans west
To streets glistening in an hourly carillon cadence,
Rain showers so like the Old City’s rhythms,
He found sheltered rests beneath gothic eaves
Soaring with scores of venomous revenge,
And octaves in librettos of a butterfly’s death,
To crescendo young symphonic dreams and emeritus chords
Maestro, melodic mentor, gift and inspiration
Friend of Lenny, Ben and Aaron.
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 like a magic feeling, overflowing my veins
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February 04, 2017
5th Place in the Contest Music To My Soul
Sponsored by: Laura Loo
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 with gold, she'll see
but also cold, where she could freeze
with empty years to dread
A chatoyant moon up in the sky
appears to leave no warning
And words we know, like backs of hands
are not clear words she'll understand
Where fairytales, and charming men
ineffable and kind, deceive the human mind
Who can define
or hide the truth, that's underlined, mistook?
Mellifluous music. is all she hears
Adagios, to fill the ears,
contain her storybook
While watching her, our ingénue, demure and pale
She'll soon grow old behind the veil, panacea of tall dreams
She'll fade into the mythical, her fairyland of schemes
Sempiternal devotion, is not for everyone
For sometimes cruel emotion, will take the heart and run
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Inspired by Silent One's
Ten Word Challenge
Words Used:
Chatoyant:
Cynosure: .
Demure:
Glamour:
Ineffable:
Ingénue:
Lissome:
Mellifluous:
Panacea:
Sempiternal
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
A circus horse made of jade below
makes eye contact and an interconnection
Without movement they are in an eternal trance,
In the deep dark yonder the golden helio appears
Fiddle and banjo play for the opening adagios act La Nouba
Her leotard tightly invokes, red with flower imprints
Statuesque, still in time showing off her physique
and impressing spectators from below the fliers' pedestal
From above the nets, with ease, she imagines a
world where gravity defies, and animals and objects fly
Flights of fancy within the flying trapeze
flights of fancy an indigo trapeze ~ from above jade nets, an ease
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,
mindful, sleeping like a log.
Until one great thought of reunion,
shook and woke us up;
A wave of delight traversed.
And there we all were;
together, meeting and greeting;
making some great memories.
Taken away by melody
of yesteryear songs ;
Had few refreshing Karaokes,
and countless rhythmic leg shakes.
The long sought soulful chats
having been vanished in time;
Those high pitched cheers,
Lowered with softened profiles.
Broad day light dine,
and the sparkling wine;
Antakshari and adagios,
Merging in essence of time.
Lost in aura of celebration,
a moment of parting came soon;
embers of promises frozen in hearts,
waiting for fire to be lit again.
Written Oct 17, 2021
© Dr. Upma A. Sharma
Dedicated to all wonderful friends of GOMCO 85 batch who gathered on Oct 17 @ Mohali Chandigarh, also to those who could not join and plan to make it next.
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! Poor heart's disconsolation-
In the hour of my night.
Gone, frailest hope to shadows tame,
When murmurs soft, this beast its name!
Fair Dawn droops spent, and mute, and lame-
In the hour of my night.
morning glories play
sweet summer adagios
listen with your heart
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 itself
balance appeared
No longer mere weight of spent symbols
colored brushstrokes seeking perfect hue
scored adagios desperate for scherzo's flight
vacuous words scribed upon lonely pages
Never again would patience be lost
dreams left abandoned
sunrise avoided
silence deemed enemy
The elusive lightness of soul
tilted the scales ever so gently
ever so lightly
opening eyes
where a mist of tearful memories
escaped the prison of self pity
Love arrived
Songs and Jingles
The Proposal
Aquaculture From Jumbo to Colossal
We have the best Prawns in the Market
Adagio's Abstract
(the deep dive into Giant Prawn Market)
Secrecy would be the success of this
mission quarry and research
several wished to collaborate
to form an enmity in a industry
that is dominated by a Chinese Market.
This industry's value was over $2.45 billion in
revenue in 2021 , could prove to
be a wealth creator in an area were
once dominated by Oyster and crab harvesting.
The giant freshwater prawn, to be grown in
freshwater pools
and sold to restaurants who
wish the best quality product available.
hydraulophone
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Needed equipment depends on the type of
aera you are trying to create. Either Indoor
nurseries or large outdoor grow out ponds.
Monitoring equipment, and water management
creates the need for the type of construction
that's needed.Specific equipment make the need of
evaluation necessary to avoid over spending or
under estimating the actual need.
The right name to promote your product help's.
People will sing your praises by giving them something
specal with a logo and product line
that's rememberable. For example the crew had to pick
between Four names.
a. Glorification Brand
B. Ole Barney's famous River Prawns
c.Shorelines Best
D. Adagio's Primo Giant Prawns
They eliminated both Glorification and Shoreline
due to the Prawns were produced in pooles in a barn.
And creating a distorted narrative of a product
can backfire; due to unrealism standards. Misleading people
can sometimes turn them away from you.
But when they looked at Adagio'S Primo Giant Prawn they said
the name was interesting enough, and Primo describe the product superiority
to others due to it's freshness.