Best Diatonic Poems

IN PRAISE OF BEAUTY

O beauty allure, beauty of the hyacinth
Doused by wailing drops of dew shroud
And pierced by the radiant shaft of heaven,
Through the rituals...

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My confusion comes from too much doing. During the news
eating cheese and crackers, drinking wine, thinking the world
needs me.

Or the falling leaves, the days shorter...

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Diatonic tree's,

slimy grease,

clanky careens-
and dodgy reefs,

slogs of sleeves
of Bogs of things,

one character breathe's,

another is obscene,

have you not heard of a ......

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What is love?

Is it reality?

Is it your best friend? An illusionary mind full of per-ambles...AND THEN tomorrow again?

Can it get, like a machine can shop?

Do...

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"The Silent Speakeasy"



she guevara she
sashay speakeasy 
monotone in neon poetry

notes not belonging
to diatonic scale of key
chromatic passenger a new story

she guevara she

Anagrams
rebellious 
sudoku kings and...

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Tom: Well, do tell? But like I said, I’m not a stranger. I’m a businessman; and more than that. Why, I could be just like...

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What, if not
meaningful thought
purposeful action,
calibrated memory,
diatonic music,
enlightened love,
defines an auspicious life?

Thought without meaning,
random action,
vertiginous memory,
atonal music,
Stygian despair.

Triumphant Life:
only success
merely failure
only light
merely darkness
only everything
merely nothing

© 2014...

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I, (and the missus)
     pleased as punch residing
     at this Schwenksville, Pennsylvania locale,
    ...

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Time was once a letter sent
A thinly packaged salutation
Revealing reads and rushes
A content discourse situation

Story lines entwined grapevines
Most privately complicit
A baton passed a relay cast
Too...

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Will you now place your sweet hand close in mine
and we’ll walk fair Elysian fields of peace.
Together we’ll talk knowing we won’t pine
earth’s scene where...

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C-he reads do re mi with regard, 
H-aving felt the admiration; 
E-ven if the tone is low
R-apture is felt in elation.
R-eading do re mi with...

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My harmonica cries, 
in tones of silver sighs and golden tears; 
wailing bittersweet joy.

Sound of sadness; sound of laughter; 
it’s in the wailing that color...

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My harmonica cries, 
in tones of silver sighs and golden tears; 
wailing bittersweet joy.

Sound of sadness; sound of laughter; 
it’s in the wailing that color...

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commanding chorale
	songbirds sitting scarlet red ~
		diatonic degree	

NB: diatonic - in music, any stepwise arrangement of the seven “natural” pitches (scale degrees) forming an octave without...

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Mindful/less music moves mad musicians
      save/lift/elevate
Shreds of Song

Diatonic drones dancing on the digital drums
      vibrate/move/inflate
Fragments...

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