The Toll of a Single Bell Chime
A bell tolls — with a single chime.
Igniting the spell of dawn’s regret.
It halts the breath, suspends all time,
Foreboding with threats you can't forget.
You flinch—one foot on the stepping stone,
The wind's first touch scalds your face.
Just one finger grips your hand alone.
You wait for relief from bell’s disgrace.
The silence palls where echoes die—
The ring bell
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Categories:
chime, angst, anxiety, music,
Form: Rhyme
Old Hands Chime Twelve
Old hands counted fingers to define,
That the hours in a day chime twice twelve,
That the months in a year toll what the old hands told.
Twelve apostles, tribes and days of Christmas do unfold
Twelve jurors decide, the twelfth is the hanged man card,
12 inches make a foot, 12 notes in an octave for a song
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Categories:
chime, planet, summer, time, winter,
Form: Free verse
Broken Wind Chime
Broken Wind Chime
The broken wind chime played one note at a time
In the soft, blowing, evening breeze
Still, it’s tune was relaxing and pretty
A reminder, to slow down, to pace yourself
- It ends with a beautiful result -
A song
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Categories:
chime, beautiful, creation, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Happy vibes
Happy hearts each day,
Gives joyful smiles, okay,
Find light for dark time,
Cheerfl bells chime!
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Categories:
chime, appreciation, beautiful, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
tiny chime sound
I sit in the sun like a happy giant cat
My dogs have found shade
A tiny chime dings in a pretty way
Dogs sleep through this dainty sound
Does it bring a faerie to their dreams?
I will ask them later
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Categories:
chime, life,
Form: Free verse
BREATHE
Announcing her swift arrival, hanging chimes sing
gentle breeze of calmness by pure soft harmonic tones
as my adrenaline rush amidst the loud chaos erupting
eagerly stepping outside to feel her presences of grace
gently caressing my skin as she flow threw my hair
feeling a sense of serenade and swaddle as I breathe
aligning and balancing the
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Categories:
chime, anxiety, appreciation, music, peace,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
chime, christian, word play,
Form: Monoku
Left Somewhere Between Love and Loneliness
In twilight's hollow, where shadows play,
I find myself lost, in a heart's gray day.
A soul once afire, with love's pure flame,
Now flickers faintly, in loneliness's cold frame.
In secret gardens, where memories reside,
Our laughter echoes, a haunting, mournful tide.
The ghosts of our whispers, the shadows of our past,
Torment my waking, and forever will last.
Like autumn's leaves,
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Categories:
chime, betrayal, care, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
The Edge of Time
I’m sitting on the edge of time
For just a disembodied pause,
While pointed hands o’er rounded chime
Obey the pendulum’s swayed cause.
Where kinetics’ course is lastly laid,
Comes forth the pointing to a door
That opens wide. Be not afraid,
I think, to thereupon explore.
And there I search the sea, in stay,
For those few drops that speak of me.
Below a
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Categories:
chime, allegory, allusion, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
When the Bell Will Chime for me
"Death is the beginning of life as life is the beginning of death ..."
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Categories:
chime, death, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Our Natural State
Beneath the noise of borrowed truths
and the weight of clocks that chime with urgency,
there lies a quiet field—vast, untamed,
where the soul remembers its original name.
No walls, no maps, no mirrors to hold us;
only the steady rhythm of breath,
the pulse of being untouched by thought.
Here, the sky is not a question
but a boundless answer,
its blue stretching
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Categories:
chime, autumn, beauty, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Chime Of Meditation
Lithesome steps lead me to an ancient
temple
Perched across a bay, weeds and
hyacinths curl between my feet,
Where mist refills bowl of cotton clouds
As rustling breeze ascends on skyline's ladder.
In stillness, I lounge on the pew to whisper unsaid psalmic devotions
for a world which aches for calmer
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Categories:
chime, silence,
Form: Imagism
Nature's Chime
A note rides on a Sonnet's rhyme
And travels on to Shakespeare's quill
A bird sings with nature's chime
Its melody fluttering in the sunlight still
Inspiration takes us to starry skies
Where the seven muses roam
Luna then begins its rise
and glimmers in the gloam
On the shore the waves repeat
As
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Categories:
chime, moon, nature,
Form: Rhyme
INTERNAL RIME to CHIME-A 'CARICATURE' for 'SURE'
PARODY
pithy never uncouth with a short bitter truth
perhaps ironic & or a little sardonic
a satire of which many never will tire
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Categories:
chime, word play,
Form: Light Verse
A real rapport'
The Truth sublime.' I found has chime..
With ouch! In fact they really rhyme.!
Metaphorically so closely twine' just
Let out (that fact) you will surely find '
That many kicks and blows ensue.!
And the verbal barage? Well its??
Well' almost (Untrue!)
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Categories:
chime, assonance,
Form: Rhyme
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