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Best Percussions Poems

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Premium Member Maestro
Composed, he walks towards the podium.
At first to applause, until a hush forms.
His heart beats like a water pump,
sweat drips - eyes fixed at his...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: percussions, art,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Winter Sonata - POTD
Winter Sonata 11-29-23
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Winter Sonata

In grave allegro solo grey gathers,
Strings of winter fantasias
Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,
Downbeats for the first movement
As shivering sleet wipes away...

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Categories: percussions, song, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Symphony of Life
blue ribbons of light
drift over me in grand
orchestral seas of hope

strings, winds and percussions
fill me with every
color, shape and texture possible

renewed,
I reach out with strength

to
bring
the
music
to...

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Categories: percussions, musicme,
Form: Free verse
Temptation's Touch
TEMPTATION'S TOUCH
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His palm soothes the ridges
Furrowed in her starlight skin
Her masseur, he replenishes
Each and every aching extremity
The chiming bells of his strokes
Ring again and again
Summoning...

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Categories: percussions, christian, corruption, evil, sin,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Piece of Me
I can still feel the weight of the heat colliding with my face as I first stepped off the plane, 
And how beads of sweat...

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Categories: percussions, military, poetry, veterans day,
Form: Other



Self Talk
Today is the day
To get things done
Come on girl
I know you have it in you
Roll your sleeves up
There's dishes to be washed
And laundry to be...

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Categories: percussions, abuse, betrayal, butterfly, child
Form: Free verse
Anti-Physic 5: Bradburying
"When I stand with this silence
between us all, we are still never here --
and then I move and your whole world
shifts, and there you are....

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© Dort James  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: percussions, lost love, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Symphony of the Devil
Symphony of the Devil
(and yes I do play with fire 
on a number of levels... hehehe)


Drums of despair
Beating my will...
My Surrendered soul
Bleeding unrepaired

Horns of dissention
Devouring...

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Categories: percussions, allegory, angst, confusion, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
With Coral Eyes
When you struck me,i vibrated like a kettle drum
then as smaller percussions and repercussions
echoing from all the glassy surfaces
creating a balletic geometry of sound tracks
in...

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Categories: percussions, absence, love, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Instrument
Instrument 

Play it 
Play the tune 
Doesn't it take you, to the moon 
Imagine me a flute 
Play the note 
It sends you to a...

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Categories: percussions, art,
Form: Free verse
A Night In the Swamp
Alligators never blink
Bewitching their prey with stares
Creatures submerged in the night
Deep divers holding their breath
Easily hiding away
Fearing their discovery
Generations have wrestled
Hesitant charms and potions 
Investigating...

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Categories: percussions, imagination
Form: ABC
Premium Member Orchestration For Planet Change
The Instrumentalists

Percussions: Tectonic plate movement, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions
Strings:        Solar wind and flares, meteor hits, and galaxy intrusion
Reeds: ...

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Categories: percussions, art, change, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let the Voices Sing, Let the Praise Begin
As I sit in front of the piano
I miderocricy created a tune
And to the holy on
For He's is the only one
The Holy one  the...

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Categories: percussions, appreciation, blessing, celebration, christian,
Form: Lyric
Art and Music Boxes
Hanging in my living room are trees
And a seagull, God's gifts living free.

The trees are Van Gogh, cut off is ear.
Starry, starry night I've seen....

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Categories: percussions, art, music
Form: Rhyme
Nocturne
She spoke of her love for him
to say how she wished him
to be her husband "Nocturne"
the romantic word.
Spoke sweetly against his lips
her kisses made
him see...

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Categories: percussions, love, music,
Form: Ballade

Book: Reflection on the Important Things