Best Stradivarius Poems

S - she played like an accomplished musician		
T - throughout the whole of the audition 				
R - receiving a standing ovation after an 			
A – awe inspiring performance that		
D - delighted all, audience and judges alike with	
I – impeccable timing and pitch whilst			
V - veritable...

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longingly, eyes
look on with lust;
the luster
lavished on
the polished violin -

the Stradivarius
as if
hourglass-shaped.

the sigh of sex
upon
the inanimate,
animated
by man.

the shudder, the gulp
of two bonded
in sin - its possession.

the greed, the tingle
of melodic light,
as the bow mambos 
a c r o s s  the strings.

the instrument
and the...

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4 strings 
the curves held 
between the limbs 
of another





Candide Diderot. ‘24 






wicked game....

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in "Angels & Demons" you wept softly,
shimmered your strings in a supine grace,
reached warmly over the edge with
a tremulous honey vibration
rising in crescendo, dripping into shadow,
then onto a deceptive cadence;
your amber rhythms stirred the inchoate
with a chord seared by sweet lament –...

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Precarious Playing Her Stradivarius 

She is in a position which was precarious
While fiddling on her fine Stradivarius
Marvelous sounds from it would emulate
To hear her again have hated to hesitate.

Crossed a bridge running over a creek
Much more magic music started to seek
Ascended high hills and through...

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Whispers of pine, aged,
Carved by hands of bygone days.
Strings hum with life's breath,
Each note a story, tender—
Echoes of eternity....

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