Best Tonal Poems

Striking Deeply a Painful Reminder 

Striking deeply a painful reminder comes of you now.
Salt falls inside my open wound bringing untold pain.
My soul has one...

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Invisible formations streak 
Through clouds around the Moon, 
Then delve beneath the canopy 
to voice a mortal tune. 

Your soul the vessel to impart
In perfect...

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Striking Deeply a Painful Reminder 

Striking deeply a painful reminder comes of you now.
Salt falls inside my open wound bringing untold pain.
My soul has one...

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A mystic rose smile that belonged to my mother this is what I recall   

My easel and I resting in the spirit, ...

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1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small...

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Pursed
Lips
Again
Yield
Through 
Holy
Exhalation
Fine-tuned
Lyrical
Unclouded
Tonal
Ecstasy...

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Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless...

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Frog playing violin
                      ...

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Hi keep me in your visage,
keep me in your sociostew
quote me in a passage
or hey, F U
themes, ideas, sonnets, 
mambypamby contrivances set to words
tell me...

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Now, unlike my usually trenchant literary librettos, i regale the unknown (tum me) reader for savoir faire articulation, elocution, and indomitable tour de force proffered...

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Even the hollow reed voices across sand, dry plains, 
startling lilt, notes we can remember.
We can forget. Forgetting is our salvation, 
not reincarnation.
When memory is...

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Dawn song / sweet trills / thin flute roused
Splayed light / warm vibe / worn slats doused
Dream haunts / harsh cough / plumb tears smart
Heart...

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For centuries of ancient thought
cosmic harmonies have been sought
in the vast eternal motion
of the grand galactic ocean.

To some the twinkling sky inspires
poems about celestial choirs.
But...

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She has great freckles and a live wire voice
And red hair with beauty that can’t compare
Green eyes and lovely tonal lips displayed
Can hear her love...

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Plein air and picturesque,free flowing
and festooned in tonal harmony

Hear me recite from my 4000+ PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthychiro..

catch my short...

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