Drummers Poems - Poems about Drummers

Exiles

...Potent grief exists in the paternoster
recited by exiles each break of dawn —
and they never cease to mourn with drums.

Exiles are men
with two lives,
and they often fast,
preferring to sip g...

Trancefire

...Mystic dancer in the firelight,
spinning, swirling as her soul takes flight,
chasing spirits on an astral plane
and catching them to call by name.

Perspiration beads on her skin,
arms spread l...

Soul Drum

...Listen—
Can you hear how the cadence of verses
Mirrors the patterns my fingers compose?
How a poem's meter is just like a rhythm?
How they both make the spirit expose?

Some nights when I'm alo...

And what of Poetry

...And what of poetry
Those muffled lies
Exposing truth
Hyphenated hucksters
Working the crowd
Barrel drummers
Echoing a distant rhythm
Hop-scotch rhymes
Keeping time
A rat-a-tat
Of Rappers ra...

Conflict Before Bedtime

...A New Etheree Poem Any Theme Poetry Contest
Tania Kitchin


I
Dated
A sweet man
We fell in love
To a drummers beat
All was fine and dandy
Except his love for Brandy
His secret lover tore u...

The Twelve Days Of Christmas

...The Twelve days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas, my true love said to me, I think that’s the police up there. So I drove them up against a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas, ...

9 helpless persons perished in Christmas day fire

...Breathless panting as I sat waiting my abusive ex husband to return from his big job with Ciro Gargano dynamite gas cans golf balls with draino two hand grenades finally dust pans used to pour gasoli...

MY Capt'n

...TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge
Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast
Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge
Barkeeper, be thoust days numbered--till asked
All s...

Jazz Fingers-Dedicated verse for Shasta Simms-

...Jazz Fingers-Dedicated verse for Delores Matthews-


Verse 1
Oh, when the night gets low and the shadows swing,
I feel a rhythm rise in everything.
Snap your fingers, let 'em dance like breeze,...

The Drum Is Beating Still

...The drum is beating still
For now the setting sun
Will set the beating heart
Now that the race is run

Beyond the moving breeze
Beyond the dying light
The phantom thunder cries
The drum rolls...

Jazz

...Drummers are no paradigm you know
Sometimes changing 4 to 2 time

like poet's words, whether free or 
rhyme, can make writing a crafty
crime -- 

drummer's beats
dancer's feets (poet license)...

Heart gentle, eyes mindful

...I've always showered 
care on ungrateful trees, 
the ones that bloomed 
and the ones that withered. 
I watered them anyway. 
In this chaotic world, 
compassion is made slavery, 
chained with e...

In My Darkest Hour

...In my darkest hour my thoughts wander, sometimes too far and sometimes just yonder. I find myself in total darkness, without a flame or word of kindness. 

Entrapped in space, where sorrow thrives,...

Riveting Romeo

...I was a famous, American actress, who adored performing for live audiences,
In stage plays, both modern and classic, like velvet time, which often rushes.

Rose acclaim filled long, chaotic days, ...

In Tune With Silence

...I once could enjoy the songs of the ocean
The beautiful sounds of nature
Moving across the blue waters
But now i can only enjoy the breeze
That moves on my skin by the shore

I once could liste...

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