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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...

Categories: downbeats, music, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

Song of the Four Seasons

...Song of the Four Seasons 2-16-24
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Song of the Four Seasons

Jagged steel gray skies
Compose barren bough sculptures
Midnigh...

Categories: downbeats, autumn, seasons, song, spring,
Form: Free verse

Winter Sonata - POTD

...Winter Sonata 11-29-23
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Winter Sonata

In grave allegro solo grey gathers,
Strings of winter fantasias
Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,...

Categories: downbeats, song, winter,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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...

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...

Categories: downbeats, heart, music, song,
Form: Cinquain

Song of My Heart

...rhythmic
melody flows
downbeats my emotions
murmuring purrs within my soul
heart felt...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Categories: downbeats, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse