DIAPASON
...
given
for
&of
itself
outward
never
inward
a contiuous
antithesis
of
clarity
yet
abstract
&
unwaveringly
objective...
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Categories:
diapason, voice,
Form: Verse
Along Dry Path
...Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid?
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garne...
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Categories:
diapason, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
World Music in Dulcet Tones and Duduk Vibrations
...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 whis...
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Categories:
diapason, culture, dance, humanity, music,
Form: Abecedarian
Music Met Madness
...callous crest grows
into crumbling crescendoes
lost bounty balance
to moaning coda
wielding wanky melody -
smoldering mystic symmetry
punctured contractions pianissimo
bleeding concerto gros...
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Categories:
diapason, dark, music,
Form: Sonnet
Walking With Grandma
...In silent gait you held firm my hand as we walked home from evening prayer.
Where found the organ's diapason full, your sweet voice, raised in hymn, fondly recalled.
Though no ...
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Categories:
diapason, absence, family, grandmother, missing
Form: Rhyme
Side By Side
...Not exceeding that moment of the shift,
decades of pomp and circumstance,
that Gatsbyesque snap of jeweled fingers,
halted,
like a race horse after the win.
Now nature in her worst mood,
feveri...
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Categories:
diapason, endurance, nature,
Form: Free verse
Heart Symphony
...Two
hearts
entwine,
one is yours
the other is mine,
We, together in harmony,
our soul is perpetual chime, ranging from indigo
of omniscient rainbow loom weaving across a diapason to an...
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Categories:
diapason, beautiful, love, magic, music,
Form: Fibonacci
I Love You Because
...Like the wind that has spontaneous
direction,
and the sun that burns with a constant
flame,
and the water that has a soothing reflection,
for a devotion my heart does proclaim.
Violins play...
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Categories:
diapason, lovelonging,
Form: Rhyme
The Player of Strings
...An ode must be written to the player of strings
Thanking them for the joy their playing brings
Reminiscent to a puppet master they strike the strings
Like a ventriloquist with seemingly voicelessn...
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Categories:
diapason, happiness, music, passion, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Anticipation
...Moon, Moon, see what I give you, moon.
an offering, as images
Hitherto quiescent in their primal darkness
Writhe upward from the writhing mind
Like sacrificial smoke.
For now my mind avid for th...
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Categories:
diapason, angst,
Form: Blank verse