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Downbeats
Downbeats Poems - Poems about Downbeats
Jazz on a Billboard
...Jazz on a billboard, a flash of notes, Urgent beats, syncopation, improvisation, and impromptu solos but why jazz on a billboard? What’s the hap’s on that? Man, what is the impact of the word ja......
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©
Tony Adamo
Categories:
downbeats,
music, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
Song of the Four Seasons
...Song of the Four Seasons 2-16-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Song of the Four Seasons Jagged steel gray skies Compose barren bough sculptures Midnigh......
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©
Sam Kauffman
Categories:
downbeats,
autumn, seasons, song, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Winter Sonata - POTD
...Winter Sonata 11-29-23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Winter Sonata In grave allegro solo grey gathers, Strings of winter fantasias Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,......
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©
Sam Kauffman
Categories:
downbeats,
song, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Summer Minstrels and Songsters
...Summer Minstrels and Songsters Crickets Summer songsters Music of the night Back porch lullabies, serenade Singers Newborn Cicadas buzz Yawn and stretch in warm sun Bright eyes see magno......
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©
Sam Kauffman
Categories:
downbeats,
song, sound, summer,
Form:
Cinquain
Song of My Heart
...Song of My Heart Heart song, Midsummer dream, Intones sweet poetry, Love notes resolve in harmonies - Vespers Music, Weaves themes of joy, Transposes dawn and dusk Tableaus of half-note......
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©
Sam Kauffman
Categories:
downbeats,
heart, music, song,
Form:
Cinquain
Song of My Heart
...rhythmic melody flows downbeats my emotions murmuring purrs within my soul heart felt......
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©
John Anderson
Categories:
downbeats,
heart, music, nostalgia, rap,
Form:
Cinquain
Music
...Mystical labyrinth of twisting harmonic warnings Gazing into infinity’s composing handiwork – Moonbeams in silver sung sonatas – Ivory hued cantatas resolved from heart pacing crescendos Sprin......
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©
Sam Kauffman
Categories:
downbeats,
music,
Form:
Free verse
Spring Songs
...spring songs eerie storm warnings mistrals turn new leaves silver ~ baby eaglets hatch banshee ballads rise ice frosted meadows shiver ~ pineapple express rain hums sad lyrics i......
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©
Sam Kauffman
Categories:
downbeats,
song, spring, storm,
Form:
Haiku
New Year's Resolutions
...New Year's Resolutions This new year marches into view Brooding and still with empty calendar pages For this pilgrim on a pilgrimage past new mile markers Engraved with resolution quoting harm......
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©
Sam Kauffman
Categories:
downbeats,
new year,
Form:
List
Tears of Purple Passion
...Melodrama Tears of Purple Passion Tears of purple passion rend the cloak of my soul in a sob act as Sobbing rain rips apart the sinuous threads of my blubbering broken heart I beat my chest in a......
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©
Sam Kauffman
Categories:
downbeats,
angst, crazy, irony, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Time
...Time Time’s steady stoic countenance Takes predetermined steps in ordered measures Leaving no footprint hint of its presence In the ceaseless rhythmic perpetuation, Drumbeats of clicking perpe......
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©
Sam Kauffman
Categories:
downbeats,
time,
Form:
Free verse
Music
...MUSIC IN THE LISTENING LAB Notes! Notes of music Bouncing Off of walls – off of chairs Off of ceilings and off the floors Running down the hall in half steps Flooding every inch of space......
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©
Sam Kauffman
Categories:
downbeats,
men, music, poetry, sound,
Form:
Free verse
Downbeats Are Loud But Upbeats Win
...first impression was great. wonderful smile, enthusiastic, glad to be hired, upbeat and positive. second impression, more of the same. fantastically caring, kind. Gets along with all of the li......
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©
Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
downbeats,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse