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Counterpoint Poems - Poems about Counterpoint

Counterpoint Poems - Examples of all types of poems about counterpoint to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for counterpoint.
Premium Member -MUSICISTA- II
...concentrated richness of sound to educate the ear to sustained attention of strands of counterpoint self-discovery by a sense ......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, music,
Form: Didactic



Laughter in the Shadows
...In chambers filled with laughter, light, and carefree sound, A discordant echo hangs, heavy and unbound. A specter in the corner, draped in deep shadows, A chilling truth the merry words refuse to......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, anxiety, conflict, death, feelings,
Form: Elegy
Who sticks closer than blood is friend
...Seen have I friends that fish for selfish good, Friends that flatter, placate, put you to ease, Whose sweet words work as venom in veiled hood, And yet, their presence feels like pleasant breez......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, friend,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Silence Blesses Us - a Pantoum
...silence blesses us life is not a quiet experience ever the friendship of heartbeat the rush of blood in our veins and the din of the blustering world heartbeat ever our friend it me......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, silence, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Cloud Music
...A restless sky becomes a high operatic act, a bright stratosphere stage lights that performance art. Then there is the counterpoint of a calm cloudiness, slow variations writing airy, occasion......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, poetry,
Form: Free verse



A Hot July In the Texas Hill Country
...Across the valley, salted with the distant sands of the Sahara, I hear the raucous song of summer’s cicadas. As a counterpoint, dry Texas mesquite trees offer a sullen crack like old men requiring th......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, allegory, anxiety, day, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Harmonious
...Harmonious is not a horrid homogenized concoction, pulsed and blitzed in a blender mixer, until the notes and flavors meld and gel set. Instead it is a polyphonic pitch ensemble, a juxtaposition ......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, memory, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unspoken
...Come sit down next to me dear I have some Bach for you to hear I've practiced it for days and weeks A romance of Baroque techniques I chose this piece because I knew That through it I could sp......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Through the Looking Glass
...The city hung upside down, an almost perfect copy, unblemished by any movement on the water that set a glaze upon the morning. Later, I saw ferns and a red bromelia caught in the still of a ......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, fantasy, home, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Take the Blue Pill
...1. (Whispered; snapping percussion done by dry firing real guns) Rock it Shock it (2xs) Glock it Put your heart in a cage and lock it. ......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, america, anxiety, racism, rap,
Form: Lyric
Visions
...life is exactly the counterpoint that we imagine it is... Wonderful and intense.. The eyes and the glasses humans are the ones who don't discern well.........Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, adventure, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The City
...The river still finds its brown way through the city's glass and concrete canyons until finally reaching the bay. Its tidal breath has become my own. I live near its mouth. I was not bo......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, fishing, home, river,
Form: Free verse
Remember, O Vicissitudes of Life
...On prying on my mind much as ye can, Ye make me ponder what gives me deep tan, Shape, sharpen me, goad me to grow as man, Ye trim down rough contours of my raw edge, Help me add life,......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, life, men, remember,
Form: Sonnet
The Bondage of Duality
...The bondage be because The seer is not same as what’s seen, Because freedom’s on pause That sees oneness— seer same as scene. The singer’s not one with the song, The dancer one with dance, Th......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, freedom,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Glossary
...GLOSSARY Art  suffused  with the  spirit  of energy   compels then stumbles amid  & within the conceptual  counterpoint of  the  irresponsible a  surging sense of  the pos......Read the rest...
Categories: counterpoint, poetry,
Form: Other

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