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Premium Member Fortissimo
When lust conjoins crescendo's climax carnal caress connects rhythm and rhyme...

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Categories: fortissimo, love,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Fortitude
Fortitude

Foundation of fierce stone,
forging life on its own.
Fortissimo strong heart,
fights for its every part.
Force but with strength of mind,
fiber finer than wine,
from firmest on the...

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Categories: fortissimo, character, endurance, strength,
Form: Verse
The Tiny Seed Opened
The Tiny Seed Opened


Deep the ponderous silent beginning
Rumbled its struggle to
And break open once upon its lilting

And thought
It lifted high some resounding
Gathered itself by pulse...

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Categories: fortissimo, nature
Form: Free verse
Beethoven's Lost Composition
"It happened at dusk, on the eve of my bed
a series of symphonies out of my head
Whistles and pattering, octaves outstretched
Violins wailing and tubas distressed
Starlight...

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Categories: fortissimo, art, imagination, music, passion,
Form: Couplet
Classic Grumblings
The piano grumbled at his touch,
Playing fortissimo on command...
Nerves of steel snapping a string.

Ambitious to a fault, practicing the night into alarm,
Lizst spilled from the...

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Categories: fortissimo, funny, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Maestro
“A maestro is like a candle. It consumes itself to light the way for others.”- 
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Categories: fortissimo, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Voice of the Storm
Voice of the Storm

My grandmother said, “Be still. God’s speaking through the storm,”
as she went throughout to see if lights or TV was on.

The white...

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Categories: fortissimo, childhood, god, storm,
Form: Couplet
The Music of Colors
It originates with a blank canvas.
White. 
Eerie silence like snow drifting
A fermata.
Silence is music too.

Then a sonata of yellow breaks the spell.
The arpeggio of a...

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Categories: fortissimo, art, color, music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Never Trust a Woman With a Stick
Never trust a woman with a stick
Allegros slow    Andantes quick

It starts when Passionata comes on stage
Hips controlled    feet detache...

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Categories: fortissimo, confusion, funny, music
Form: Free verse
A Case of Misunderstandings
No, you’re brain does not have a viral inflection                ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fortissimo, humor, irony, language, parody,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hold Everything
I thought at the time
It was something by Debussy
And every day the same tune
Those same troubled places
DAY AFTER DAY!

After a few weeks it was almost...

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Categories: fortissimo, funny, musicme,
Form: Free verse
Life Notes On a Scale.
The last note lingered,

Creating suspense.

Leaping the top line,

As one would a fence.

Our song started softly,

Safe and warm.

Then built up dramatically,

Like the midst of a storm.

And...

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Categories: fortissimo, life,
Form: I do not know?
Anemic Checking Account
This Citizen Banker 
     safely in his compound doth attest,
sans donning his typical 
     gabbling and trumpeting...

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Categories: fortissimo, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Midnight Waltz
Dazzling twilight
Sparkling starlight
Ocher lights all around
Heavens are chanting
Nature is prancing
Anticipating concerto sounds
Zephyr tantalizing
Music harmonizing
Grand flora sway lofty in a row
Nightingale ready
Standing steady
Awaiting her cue from...

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Categories: fortissimo, happiness, inspirational, life, nature,
Form: Narrative
The Selection
get it right and make it right again
days say solo days say ah dew shi paco
ah dew she say ah vay dew!
Adagio Cadenza
Andante C
Dolce Fermata
Fortissimo...

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Categories: fortissimo, baby, beautiful, business, little
Form: Etheree

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