Best Drumroll Poems

I want to ride a zebra

   and race the rays of radiance
       through heat-waves’ sailing gradients -

     a folly wild - a mood untamed
   elated hands in bristled mane
unbridled veins uncorked...

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The mind eternal lies before us always.
Less pure in tone, we come to it drenched with life;
Fearless companion in our hour of days. 
A purity not withstanding breadth of knife. 

Away! Away! succubus death, 
much less a breach than I.
How many not mislaid in breath,...

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don't be afraid to be foolish and stupid    (Heroditus)

When I first met her
     I knew there was something
     she gave me

     a spontaneous drumroll
     ascending to...

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Angel on hindsight
Foul on an area of light. A vanishing monk.
A living stalk. A living hen.
Drumroll - please.
Hence we fly, I dry.
What do we say, quiet please.
I fly like an eagle. I walk like the empty spirit.
Ecstatic Bombastic Flying.
Bravo my friend, you are welcome to...

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Figuratively tack one hundred 
and eighty degrees away...
where joie de vivre underscores 
poetic theme, no matter every day
brings gut wrenching tearful tragedy, 
thee attention for heart warming 
(powdered milk biscuits 
of human kindness)

doth shyly beg to gussy
esprit de corps with elan 
evoking a reddit ting,...

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Where lips crave praise, teardrops dangle on lower lash,
Unabashed smiles, like the seawaves of haven’s cache.

Found in communion, where robust hymns reconvene —
A sanctuary, my consecrated place, sans dummy screen.*

Chalice dips in river of delights — Bread of Life, my desire.*
Bottoms warm on pews, hearts...

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Night time rituals, that little space of time,
Cathartic relief, along with sweat and grime,
Tribulations of the day wash away, too,
Pool down the sink hole, tomorrow starts brand new.

Night time rituals, bring with them repose:
Weary souls long their weary eyes to close.
Strange to remember, I once...

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Blustery sky I have read your blotted scroll
Your balmy reams with angry portents roll
A bleary tempest o'er your tranquil plains doth roil
Blackened tenants perch on your billowy shoal
With shutters as dark as night as black as coal
Shading your gilded beams; with menacing shadows troll
From foaming...

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Here comes judgment day
The day of reckoning
Where fates are decided
And verdicts rendered
Futures lie in the wait
The drumroll of anticipation
Admitting there’s no hope
For submissions that are late



Submitted on March 6, 2019 for contest JUDGE THE JUDGE sponsored by BOBBY MAY  -  RANKED 2ND...

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The leader, philosophical and wise,
Ends his speech after a long silent pause,
His true followers with half open eyes
Responding with admiring oohs and aahs.

Turn up the mic on the silence to hear
A leader's lust for worship and control,
Minds whirring like a quickly turning gear,
'Bout how what...

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He couldn’t wait,
Not any longer, he’d held out all year.
So he parked the car at Lookout Hill
And nibbled on her ear.

He couldn’t stop.
The drumroll of his heart was deafening,
He laid the seat back and gave her a kiss,
She couldn’t believe this was happening.

She held him...

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The drumroll, too heavy for May
    rumbles on ... abruptly halts
  Cadets at attention rigidly
    silently, duty-bound ... 

  In measured tones, a psalm floats on
    a breeze made limp by heat
  Taps...

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Goddamn smartass squirrel goes through a window and starts slapping a plush toy. 
Turning it over and over.
"You got jacked, !"
Up on its attention antennae, sealed in clover.
Up for all comers, winters and summers, 
Springing into Fall cover.
Wiggle haunch, loose and clean, limber and mean....

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Boron fusion, specifically proton-boron-11 (p-B11) fusion, the path to clean and sustainable energy> Advantages is that fusion is safer because it produces no neutrons, only alpha particles, and uses abundant, non-radioactive fuel. 
The same Sub-atomic reactions that power the sun and sssssstars.Monitering dust accumulation, using...

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Inspired by Youth Day, a drive through Soweto combined with Phil Collins music. 

Listen to their voices 
(Youth Day)
By Michelle Morris 
17/06/2024

Driving through Soweto
Seeing the makeshift stalls
People hustling to survive 
Part of their daily grind 

Phil Collins on the radio
Drums beating like Africa 
Heartbeats and...

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