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Drumbeats Poems - Poems about Drumbeats

Fantasy rides status quo

...In silent drumbeats of depression
throbs a fractal life of no "visualization".
dandelions fluffing in howling winds
fight with Halloween "hallucinations".
behind the dusk of a sealed doorway lies...
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Categories: drumbeats, allusion, depression, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTears of a Clown

...S t r e n g t h ~
a somersaulting sigil
you wear in stillness,
when the gold of ascending dawn
kisses the skin of sleeping sand,
when the skylark softly
serenades serenity for the unseen,
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Categories: drumbeats, 7th grade, deep, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



The Dancing Feet

...She dances to the rhythmic drumbeats,  
She dances despite her aching feet.  
She bears the torture;  
If only.it would turn to joy.  

She watches the priest as he calls upon the benevolent spi...
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Categories: drumbeats, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberProtection Of The Tribes

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In the heart of the forest, where the ancient trees stand tall
Lies a world untouched by time, where nature’s whispers call
Tribal people live in harmony, with the land and sky so wide
Their spi...
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Categories: drumbeats, earth, environment, people, pollution,
Form: Rhyme

How to make love to a didgeridoo

...Her shocks poured forth like a midnight oil spill,
body buckling like a sapling in a tornado, cracked like a Grecian museum urn. Moonflower extended limb petals, hips arched, limbs touched the night...
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Categories: drumbeats, crush, dark,
Form: Free verse



The voice of Emilien

...The voice of Emilien

(A lone voice whispers)

I once met the King of all Darkness 
In France 

As we played poker for my soul 
In a burnt out house

While Edith Piaf sang 
La vie en rose ...
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Categories: drumbeats, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

A Part of Reality

...Echo holds back some of reality,  
Giving us a filtered view,  
Like the dew,  
Droplets from the main source.  

Songs of joy come from a ferry,  
Their sounds reach the shore,  
Carrying mes...
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Categories: drumbeats, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberShikata Ga Nai

...“This is love: to fly toward a secret Sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet.” ~ Rumi  

Life can be a pi...
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Categories: drumbeats, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPercussion's Groove

...
 Sound of the drumbeats stirred a move
 As they gathered for the war dance
 With movements to percussion's groove
 Sound of the drumbeats stirred a move
 Prepared for war, their skills to prove...
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Categories: drumbeats, dance, war,
Form: Triolet

Premium MemberA Bugle Wept

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   A lone bugle wept as it wrapped
    its plaintive message ‘round her heart 

   Why relentless drumbeats for another
    raised hope anew for her brother

   Is not ours to fathom unless 
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Categories: drumbeats, emotions, funeral, music, psychological,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberUtopia

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Written: March 15 2024 For Constance La France Contest

Quote:   "Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a be...
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Categories: drumbeats, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCotton Crowns

...Upon their granite, sculpted brows,
A chiffon ballet swirls and bows.
Cloud-scarves drape, light as a sigh,
Where mountains, aged and stoic, lie.

Feathers of heaven, soft and white,
Escape the...
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Categories: drumbeats, mountains,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberFading Drumbeats

...Long past war’s fading drumbeats 
And beyond the miasmic mists of time
Run undercurrents that displace peace 
And fancied futures hoped sublime.
Once staccato beats of war drums abate  
Far from...
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Categories: drumbeats, death, fate, humanity, in
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPenultimate Prefix of Passion

...As the final glimpse 
of the sun leads into 
an everlasting spectacle 
of twinkling dreams, 
peeking through 
    turmeric traces 
of an amber aftermath, 
I listen to the 
nesting nightin...
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Categories: drumbeats, deep, destiny, muse, music,
Form: Free verse

Distant

...Distant
Drumbeats echo
Through tranquil night's stillness,
Enticing, bewitching, tempting
Rhythm....
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Categories: drumbeats, poems,
Form: Cinquain

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