Best Contrapuntal Poems

...Part One.

A silent yawn, the moon awakes.
Compels its patron planet's shape.
As oceans shift by its command
And with its might recasts the land.
 
Below the lunar rings of mist,
A strip of cloud, a ......

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...Surreal Nature
	
	
Rural Oklahoma: Cool autumn night on the front porch, thoughts and opinions about poetry and painting shared with a dear friend over wine and water. Poetry is sacred she said, and ......

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...The Enigmatic Middle C
                                          by Odin Roark

How lonely
Might that in between place be,
Where water from trickle beginnings
Modulates into wakes,
The upward ......

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...Little Pigeon River
	
	
	Little Pigeon River’s 
	water lullaby, 
	the flow’s soft percussion 
	against mossy green 
	rounded river rocks,
	multi-layered, 
	contrapuntal,
	a faint hiss,
	tiny scraping......

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...Soundscape Strata

Did Bach know to what end
his harvest of melodies-in-parallel would become?

Scholars agonize

Was creation of counterpoint
musical destiny
a hybrid fruit of beauty
knowing no boun......

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...
"Caim"



Caim 
in time
labyrinthine
tale swallowed
serpentine 

Caim 
in time
heart kept 
secure in the 
central fortress mine

Serpentine
swallowed
labyrinth......

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...Contrapuntal Poem Form Attempt 1

Pat's "New" Hat

A short disagreement
“I’ve no time for your senseless chitchat”
Nodding horizontal heads were sent
“Explain yourself you dirty rat”
Out of s......

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...Everyone is so quiet
Up to this point Maestro S_______ has conducted Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
    magnificently!
But!    At this point S___________ seems nervous
And     with good reason
The n......

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...The answer to the question
    I asked you about
is already known
    the meaning of it all
the way to the answer
    for only you knew
has al......

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...HORN

The song washed over me
like shadow and light among
fast-moving clouds in unsettled 
conditions before a dangerous
storm
But the more I listened, less was
the word and more was the song......

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...See where I started,
in the garden of my childhood.
Fenced around with parents
hedged in with strict convention.

Walk with me.

The bare hills of ambition from my youth
lead upward, onward, ......

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...It’s so difficult, too ungraspable,
poetry can only mimic with deaf words.

The beginning:
our turning earth gently rises 
    from the rim of the unseen.
Notes and tones spellbind 
with intim......

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...Left to their own improvisation
They swirl around each other
In search of the perfect melody 
One they'll be in sync with every sway
A rhythm so smooth and soothing 
Love the main instrument of ......

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...
Friends

One can’t be surrounded by negative minded friends;
Needs to choose friends with right frame of mind.
Some friends will criticize your thoughts unashamedly;
If you guid......

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...Someday 
(We'll be feeling our pride) 
By Michelle Morris 
29/09/2020 

Chorus 
Oh-oh and someday...
Oh-oh someday...
Oh-oh someday...
Oh-oh and someday...
(end chorus) 

We'll be there u......

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