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Premium Member Sinuous Melody
Your face
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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: legato, love, music,
Form: Free verse



If Languages Were Instruments
If languages were instruments,
English, the language of my own America,
Would be something like a piano.
Each word is clear and sharp-
When we sing, the note does...

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Categories: legato, arabic, international, language, music,
Form: Free verse
On Tour
On Tour


To dive into the world of the great barrier reef would be enough
assimilating into the tranquil environment somewhere in the Capricorn
looking below while leaping...

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Categories: legato, adventure, nature, travel, vacation,
Form: Sonnet
Don'T Interrupt the Music
Dissonance is delegating the intensity in my eyes
Minor chords unveil the passion my body can’t belie 
Eighth notes are lightning sparks that burn my finger...

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Categories: legato, love, musicme,
Form: Rhyme
Sonata For Christmas Eve Rain
SONATA FOR CHRISTMAS EVE RAIN

I.	 I sit in my friend’s armchair,
waiting for her to get ready for church.
Pianissimo, the raindrops fall in quick, staccato rhythm...

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Categories: legato, christmas, music, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Summer Symphony Serenade Song
summer symphony serenade song

cricket concertos
 cicadas in choruses~
  summer serenades

bullfrogs beat bass lines
 barn owls hoot bluesy ballads ~
  bars of broken chords

lightning...

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Categories: legato, song, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Bird Calls
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Pausing next to tall brush and oak trees, I hear the calls of a bird in the immediate environment around me. This little bird is...

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Categories: legato, bird, spring,
Form: Haibun
Music
Music, music, it’s in the air,
Here is a list of what I hear:

A B C D E F G
(1 e & a) (1 2 3)

Rhythm,...

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Categories: legato, appreciation, art, music, song,
Form: Couplet
The Words In My Head
The words in my head are beautiful.
They are dancing cheek to cheek
with Southern legato or London staccato
with Chinese tunes and Xhosa clicks,
with native Dutch, straight...

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Categories: legato, allegory, art, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Personification
He Was the One To Stop Me
Long time in the agricultural field , working under the rising sun ,
counting the amount of time , to lead a lax time with my...

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Categories: legato, abuse, culture, day, death,
Form: Rondeau
What Is Jazz
Legato. Smooth, slow jazz ballads.
The type where you play each note as late as possible.
The type that holds beautiful memories.
The type that will have you...

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Categories: legato, cheer up, chocolate, cry,
Form: Free verse
Erased
Erstwhile his skin was beautiful as an obsidian, with great markings alongside his face, as was the likeness of the Benin people; an imagery so...

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Categories: legato, death,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Blessings of Music
// This is my tribute to the many blessings that music brings to our
lives. I know many of you share this enthusiasm and gratitude. //

Appreciating...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: legato, appreciation, blessing, music,
Form: Abecedarian
Birdsong Serenade
Birdsong twitters
Sunlight flickers in and out of clouds
Weaving messages with light
You resonate with sound

Chirping virtuoso
Eco vibrato on a pleasing wind
A melody to serenade my ears
As...

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Categories: legato, bird, feelings, inspirational, music,
Form: Free verse
The Sophistry of Eons
I have been sequestered amongst the desert sands
like the Israelites before they claimed Canaan
Wandering about right beside my homeland
All for some kind of cosmic lesson...

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Categories: legato, bible, christian, death, forgiveness,
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things