Best Tones Poems

My friend, 
    do you see
         every finger
        every key
         Can you hear
        words to sound
      float around
       Do you feel
          movement sing
     ...

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You spoke a new language
  of rarefied air
  guided nonchalantly 
  through curving channels of brass

Conduits of cool
  juries of jazz
  floating past soulful valves 
  harbingers of what will come

Slender fingers
  improvising storylines
  magistrates of melancholy
...

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Staple diets tainted gray
still pesticides they spray
gallops horse of dapple grey 
fourth beast say, ”hell’s to pay”

 
as life bubbles into shape
for human illusion’s sake
two thousand twelve’s wake
Love in life is not a fake

Somber tones may meander
worldly concepts detest a new face
many old faces doth...

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 Above a ridge, knowing not how on
some parcel of a lucent dome, we meander
to  breathe in the vapor of  moonlight ,
gently burying her crown  upon breasts of valleys
endowing a lush ritual: the great gig in the sky...
of trees rustling in a...

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When night casts shadows on the ground
The robin, distant, croons
Avian tones, enthralled by dreams
While stars glaze like festoons.

Ringlets of clouds, like puffs on flight
The silhouette of trees,
Nocturnal sighs and murmurings
Are caught up in the breeze.

Then, the new moon appears above
Her white face shyly peeps,
Light breaks...

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What is the color of your skin?
Yellow as the radiance of the sun that yields 
to the ticking drips of morning's climb ;
or black in the gentleness of a dusk
closing its light to render god and man
the sleep from trodden journeys?

Perhaps, white like cavorting waterfalls
tumbling...

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he tongue is our bank
To these ads and words we fathom
And this is what puts a man a sense of worth
And to the women a sense of rose
From the oratory we admire to the poetry we adore

Praise be our mother’s tongue that is our source
To...

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Across the globe, music ascends—a universal zephyr,
Bridging cultures in harmonious yearning;
Chords converge from Andes to the Zangezur, xenharmonic,
Dulcet tones of a duduk—in the air, they whisper.

Every note—an echo of humanity's vibration,
From flamenco's fire to the finesse of a cello's undulation;
Gamelan's gongs—a gamut of sounds' timbre,
Harmonium's...

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vibrating echoes
fret sliding glass thrumming twang
pillow muted fade...

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The blackboard waited stark and bare
As yet, there was no teacher there 
A striding vision, took the chalk
You know… I recognised that walk

Miss Malone’s Dulcet tones
Sent a shudder through my bones
Her flowing hair with blonde highlights
Her mini skirt and fishnet tights
The way she stood with...

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Wolfgang Mozart wolfed in haste,
A poetic sonata serene,
Harmonizing in good taste—
Finally finishing in canteen,
For a fix of caffeine.
 
Wolfgang Mozart makes no bones,
The audience not realizing,
He painted harmonic tones,
Spellbinding, yet not surprising,
Tunes so mesmerizing....

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Shadows of an empty heart 

seem to suffocate in the presence of happiness, 

A happiness that will overpower the weakening sadness...

it's so familiar, yet so new. 

Beauty in its best form forbidden to escape my heart, 

but slowly the barier collapses, leaving only one thing...

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Tiny bar percussion instrument, I am in awed.
I rhythmically stroke my thumbs across your tines,
My soul floats upon your notes; my heart applauds.
Tensions and sorrow float away; your music unbinds.

It seems natural to hold you in my hands.
Your inharmonic overtones, to some, may seem odd.
Sweet...

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That obscene stare 
aggravates the silicon 
thrust. You become a victim
of an upheaval.

The white dwarfs have 
invaded the blackboard.
You can get a glimpse
of unsolicited rape.

A cyanide capsule 
hangs on your chest.
Will you commit a suicide 
after an unnatural kill ?

It takes a toll. The 
abuse...

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Heaven’s Music

This music has wondrous cosmic tones
Beyond the range of all human hearing.
Sometimes as one enters the deepest sleep, 
Angels may share hints of these tones
With some mortals chosen only by God.
At that true moment of holy ascension
Each soul crosses over into the light of...

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