Dissonant Poems

AUTUMNAL BLISS--Seasonal Crystalline Poem

...AUTUMNAL BLISS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
autumn's winds, a playful caress
dissonant wind chimes dance in artful bliss
...

Grief Is a Beast With Weary Eyes

...Grief is a beast with weary eyes 
Waiting on a chord unfinished—
The tinny purr—
A waving growl of tambourine,
Death’s rattle sounds the closing bars,
That dissonant finale.

Crest on crest th...

Inaccesible Love

...Far, far love, flying over the land, over the city, music takes so far
The soul of desire can’t close; this life is not a slave. Glittering light
Faster than light, always flying, flying, just flyi...

On A Rainy Evening in The City

...

Your ear has to be
tuned to hear 
the City's rhythms  
buried below the noise
and be able to discern 
a melody woven through
the dissonant chatter
as in the rumble and splash 
of motorcar...

Choosing Peaceful Curiosity

...Monotheism's greyscale God
is a monochromatic antithesis
of polytheism's gay
full-color
Gaian Hypothesis.

A radiant monotheistic SunGod 
is the 1 numerator antithesis
of a polytheistic 
non...

Life

...Life

Why follow? Don’t need. Lives the death
Be walking. Dark woods. Free life. Feeling

Don’t love. Do not love. This is just a mistake
Dark light. No harmony. This life is dissonant

Just ...

American Cacophony

...Microtonal mayhem misses the mark
a triple concerto for sirens, drones & bullets
groaning ghosts pluck piano strings
extramusical praise: present (& past/future)
we're going around & round (sings...

Give me the Rhythm

...Oh! Guitar, what music hides in thy heart,
That awaits the touch of my soft fingers.
As my digit ends move over thee in quiet,
What melody comes, how it my spirit triggers!

Every ch...

Dissonance a Forked Tongue in Cheek

...You sound like a fingernail
dragged over a blackboard.
Every word cast as blackmail
from a forked tongue in cheek.
Bathed in the vile, bile of diatribe,
masticated to be flung as dung expelled.
...

Fire of Anxiety

...I watched every twig, every stick,
carefully placed -
I watched

Every branch left its mark,
playing its part like a symphony—
melodies whispering notes of peace,
while harmonies voice the dis...

RightWing UnWoken

...It's not enough to say,
with however much great might,
America's Religious Right
is wrong
to flap fight wings
and even bite
against Earth's spirit natured Left.

All sacred EarthTribes
could...

Blessed by Death

...I lie, naked, cast aside in the shadows,
My flesh, bare, crumbles among the carcasses of half-dying thoughts.

I stare upon myself—
Is this truly I,
This forsaken creature,
Smiling with bitter ...

I AM

...I am nobody, nothing more or less 
than a pathetic line of symmetry.
In this paradox of existence,
a listless, feeble entity.
I am nothing more , and nobody
for the universe to see.
A dissonant...

Hey, It's Cafe Jazz

...Snapping fingers, a low hum in the microphone)
 Hey, It's Café Jazz/ But we ain't just sipping black coffee and snapping our fingers in polite applause/
 Talkin' Bop/ first idiom where being white ...

A Visitor

...Moonlight creeps through the writhing woodland as 
Arion walks alongside me—upward toward the lone mountain. 
We had trekked for miles and the way was wearisome,
heavy fog in its obscuring fidelit...

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