Best Glissando Poems


Cinnamon Leaves of Autumn
...Autumn teases the last cinnamon leaves
clinging to branches with amber fingers.
Seasonal change awakens Nature's thieves,
a wafting breeze that doggedly lingers,
stripping trees bare; a s......

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Categories: glissando, autumn, beauty,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Vox Sforzando
...
I murmur like a rivulet through the 
hitch of your hands, where the canyons 
carve their parched longing into your fingers—
where silences sublimate like cera,
pooling beneath your <>...

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Categories: glissando, allegory, feelings, fire, heaven,
Form: Free verse
song of a tide
...Fingertips 
fall—
not like 
stones,
but like rain,
plucked silver
threading the air.
Each string
holds a hush,
a breath not yet
forgotten.

The musician builds—
not a score,
but......

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Categories: glissando, beautiful, memory, muse, music,
Form: Imagism

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Premium Member Moonlight Sonata Eyes
...She’s still; an interlude in solitude.
Twilight mournful, his voice ghostly distant,
introspection.., meditation imbued,
she sits alone, bitter-sweet existent.

Lamentations she weeps in glissan......

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Categories: glissando, bereavement, grief, husband, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Why Kant You Tell Me the Time
...Father time legendarily and Omni potently 
 existentially linkedin, binding cradle to grave 
since advent of *****sapiens, the whiffed bald credo 
 an employee most adhere ta have 
and keep sourc......

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Categories: glissando, change, day, history, philosophy,
Form:
Premium Member Canoeing the Mississippi - Part 1
...Overflow of the waters of Lake Itaska
You carry your wealth to the waiting world, 
Mighty Mississippi, half savior, half sewer, 
Plant and animal wastes, dissolved minerals, 
Venting prairie delu......

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Categories: glissando, boat, dream, journey, nature,
Form: Blank verse


Subspace Triptych
...descent:

crack!
sear sting
oh…
shocked into clarity
sharp edged relief of now
laid bare on a tempest

slick satin slides
catches my wrists
pulls up
pulls tight
paradigm shift 
into con......

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Categories: glissando, life,
Form:
Premium Member Spring Rhapsody
...SPRING RHAPSODY

Spring
      like a harp glissando
                               infecting the air
                                   showering light-dust
     bathes the soul
This sudden hu......

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Categories: glissando, nature
Form: Free verse
Leaves Fall In the Fall
...Leaves fall in the Fall.
Leaves flump in the Downtick.
Leaves flop in the Glide.
Leaves founder in the Comedown.

Leaves descend and drop in the Tumble.
Leaves nosedive and lurch in the Downflow.
Lea......

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Categories: glissando, nature,
Form: Free verse
Melody
...It started on D - flat, 
succulent & succinct 
soft & rhythmic
loaning hearts pats. 
the wail of the piano
caressing the voices' glissando

riffs tampered with the tune, 
notes trailing track......

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Categories: glissando, confusion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ballads
...Long lonely ballads sooth my soul,
recounting loves which ne’r grow old.
With tales of lives, of toil and strife
which linger on the sharpest notes.

Laments pining through the key of D.        ......

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Categories: glissando, happiness, health, musicme,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Melancholia
...MELANCHOLIA

     Had he left putting me
     in reverie of melancholia?
   Rather I left him
    and since then peace had left me forever
   while I am whirling in rue of turbulent tornedo.

......

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Categories: glissando, depression, grief, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Melancholy
...MELANCHOLIA

     Had he left putting me
     in reverie of melancholia?
   Rather I left him
    and since then peace had left me forever
   while I am whirling in rue of turbulent tornedo.

......

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Categories: glissando, 10th grade, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Glissando
...i can feel the darkness as it engulfs me from the inside
beyond consiousness i dance with the figures of mud
as the claws ripped through my back my heart died
and i slipped into my bed of the fall......

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Categories: glissando, angst, loss, love, passion,
Form: Tail-rhyme
The Elegy
...The Elegy
From Chicago to Washington
Guns play their fatal crescendo
Not much glissando
Too many musicians 
Or too many instruments?......

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Categories: glissando, conflict, confusion, crazy,
Form: Acrostic
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