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Best Bass Poems

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Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: bass, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash...

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Categories: bass, desire, music, night, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Purple Cemetery
I write so many poems that you don’t see
They end up in purple poem cemetery
Mangled in the **** of my maroon mind
Tangerine tangles of wasted...

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Categories: bass, dream, feelings, green, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Language of Blue
The Language of Blue

Sinking into the lyrical language of blue
Prime layers of still solitude speak
 With muted voices
  In sapphire soprano rhapsodies,
Lines of bass...

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Categories: bass, blue, language, music,
Form: Free verse
Leonard Cohen Was Right
Standing before the microphone,
blank faces stare from cushioned chairs
Jewels sparkle, acting like they’re real,
while bow ties just seem sad…it happens

Marching to the beat of clicking...

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Categories: bass, poetry,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Life is a song
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
Rumi

If life was a song,
what would be your refrain?

When instruments of fate performed
in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bass, muse, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sun Too Needs a Savior
Where does the 
    selfless sun hide
when heavens
r a i n bloodstones? 
Burned and inscribed, 
from monsoon monsters,
gnawing at our bones,
the shimmering...

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Categories: bass, angst, emotions, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh Captcha Squares
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
What are these objects in your frames?
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Why must they gotta be the same?

  ...

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Categories: bass, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord -Day 1
And the music began,
And with power so strong, I nearly fell back from the force
Snarling, smiling, demons held me upright,
As the Precarious Prince began,

“Dare you...

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Categories: bass, adventure, crazy, deep, desire,
Form: Narrative
Old Faithful
No, not a geyser,
Not a woman,
Old faithful sits
Patiently in my kitchen,
Awaiting my need for her

Old faithful is an organ,
Rich velvety tones
Growls when I ask her
Or...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bass, adventure, life, music, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Surround Sound
As the sun tinges the horizon
A pale shade of rose
Beauty touches the slate gray sky
White canvas painted exposed

Surround sound of Dove's voices
Coos echo on all...

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Categories: bass, introspection, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Voice - Potd
Voice

Through a vast jumbled valley of cacophony's roar
One voice 
 In tones of soprano, alto, tenor and bass
Speaks a universal epiphany
In a rumbling
 Resonate
 ...

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Categories: bass, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Ravishing Rain
Drizzling, dazzling
splinters of diamond
          Shards of crystal
or  liquidized glass!
      Transparent drops
from a translucent sky. 

       Ooh, that lucid lustre:
No wonder they say,
there's something sexy about...

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Categories: bass, rain,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue…

Slinking into a still hue of blues 
Haunting trumpets dart in and out
Like taxi horns in freeloading traffic
And cling like silk onto full...

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Categories: bass, blue, music,
Form: Free verse
Be Careful What You Hook
I once heard of a fisher Luciano,
  who sang bass as he played on his piano.
  Once he fished and cast his line
...

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Categories: bass, fishing, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick

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