Song Choka Poems

music to kids ears
Pete carried on with his flute
without parental consent

his larynx engaged
as his footprints leave their clues
there would be scars over soot

townsfolk grab pitchforks
multilingual...

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On a warm evening,
Sat idle on the seashore,
Looking at the sea.

As I was gazing,
Violent breakers rose high,
Crashing on the shore.

Before me I saw,
The savagery of...

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Mysteries of bliss,
Why does joy's cool shiver heal?
Whitney's breathless song
Whispers down my back,
Zipping along my spine's track
Mysteries of Bliss.
Emotions ablaze,
Clutching my chest, my heart blaze
rapture...

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Redbird at midnight
Where did the orange sun go
on Emerald Lane?
Stars twinkle summer
butterfly wings so weary
Lights out cool fireflies.
Resting on jade grass
do the crickets miss their...

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Man laying in grass 
Wearing the skins of wild beasts 
With acorns in hand 
A spear of stone next to him 
He laughed to himself...

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In winter's cold grip
In the land of the Angles
The Good Christians came
Against their will to a trial
In a grand city
Called the Ford of the Oxen
Good...

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Garden flowers sleep
                      ...

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Winter wind returns
Once again, the cold air churns
Inside the woodstove fire burns

Winter can be long
Holding onto a bird’s song,
Helps stay uplifting and strong

Ice lays where...

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The soft music plays
Lifting my spirit so high
Everything is lighter
I dance in the air
I am released to be free
As if the wind let me go
Moving...

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Moon sings it’s nightly,
Lullaby as nature beds,
Down for a good night of sleep.
Those who prowl at night,
Will fall asleep to sun’s song;
Not everyone’s the same;...

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The Healthy Dance of His Rose

Oh healthy Rose!
His he senses you are
But your thorns he dreads 
And disturbed he is at night

A song for you...

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Though the road ahead 
is clear, the path remained still
unseen for us. The

way of theirs is of 
no use, yet we still need to 
go...

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slow fading 
of a red rimmed glow 
candle lit 
that held at bay
the cold moonless night 
its soft hiss the song 
that filled so
my heart...

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I have walked the trail,
I have seen my one true love.

There she is ahead,
Standing four thousand feet tall.

Frosty snow awaits,
Far up high near Heaven's gates.

Climbing...

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In da Big Easy
sipping on our Hurricanes
wandering to who-cares-where
Pass an old court-yard
Meters playing 'Cissy Strut'
Funk echoes down Bourbon Street...

*Art Neville (The Neville Brothers) was the...

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