Best Symphonic Poems

Love's Symphonic Passion
                                by Odin Roark

Shimmering whispers urge forth,
A beginning seeks release from darkness,
The...

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Glittering poplars
dance in the breeze's cool gusts
singing like sea waves....

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privileged clouds catch breath...
meadowlark’s song bridges gulf...
rain's tympanic leaves

Brian Johnston
November 11, 2015...

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symphonic sunrise~
                                     overture in harmony~
    ...

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symphonic spring

                                       a melodic spring
  ...

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Tryouts starring musical prodigies 
and/or an attendant conductor
attempt to approach ambient chorus 
divinely exhibited from Gaia's handiwork
heavenly invoking kapellmeister's magnificent nonchalant outlook 
piquantly, quintessentially, repertoire sensately striking 
unmatched vast wisdom yielding, zephyr air albeit creativity 
engineered from groundswell harmony
juxtaposed, kindled, linkedin, 
manifesting noteworthy opulent philharmonic recording
transcribing...

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At night I like to look to the sky
and remember the lost ones by whom I'm inspired
The angels Rena, Toni, Jeromiah, and David
all showed me something, how can I repay them?
My heros whos lives, troubled like mine
yet never once did they ever fail to shine
even...

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*Image of Candle Masquerade by Pixabay.

Symphonic Sconce
(The Candle)

Seasoned succession
Sanctioned section
Soloist strings
Streaming satisfaction
Spirited sheathed
Solidly settles
Sustained symmetry
Stalwart stance
Stage set
Soft shades
Simulacrum sources
Spark stirs
Silhouette styles
Sparkling surfaces
Shining signature

2023 January 03

*Alliteration/Personification...

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A kaleidoscope of transcendent rhythms
Envelop my soul from the well-spring of a mystical
and majestic refrain.

Notes exalted in the heart of the awakened one
Only to be extinguished by the cruel masters of 
memory and time, which give way to a dystopian
perspective incessant and ominous in its...

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Symphonic Quiescent Overture – Maestro Kant Imitate

(alternately titled: a retrospective review 
randomly selecting an outdated poem 
stored within Apple icloud queue
methinks ye might might savor preview

regarding general overview
how yours truly dabbled 
with words where new
sense even then gushed 
oot noggin o' Matthew

Scott Harris foretold loo
pee...

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There’s her sweet, succulent
voice soothing your sorrows
in your ear. 
Like soliloquies, soft
sonatas surround your once
dark shadows.
What compares to the composition
of music? Of operatic opposition?
Of triads and miscommunication,
the minor scales know not what to say
when the evening slides away.
You’re asleep, though not dreaming.
I suppose you never...

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Soft piccolo chirps,
Lovely flutes hoot in the trees;
Cricket violins.
*
Cricket violins,
The field oboes howl with grace;
Under soft moonlight. 
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Under soft moonlight,
Percussion hooves beat the woods;
Symphonic nightfall....

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Peruse the fiddle,
Strike the lyre, beat the drum
Waves to break glass air....

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When I allow myself
to become an understoried note,
I hear our symphony co-relationally composed of
rhythms
patterns
pauses
silence
cacophony
measures
color 
tone
tunes harmonic,
dissonant,
diminished,
subconcious sub-objective underlying creation stories
recreationally sung together
better than just loudly marching apart,

This bilateral muse awareness
releases me from fundamentalistic win/lose salvation stories
and allows this ego-moment to live freely,
yet securely interdependent,
co-passionately win/win...

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a night gleaming jasmine's sylphid nectar
amid silvery swells of silk song-weaving
soft swirls of a hypnotic aroma pervade.
spirals to the milky pearl of the starry sky,
whispers of rapture, a hawkmoth of passion.
when stirred, he performs a rhapsody.
a symphonic chorus of stardust and breaths.

Written: December 11, 2022...

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