Fanfares of the Common Man
...At the breakdown of ages man disappears and reappears
In the form of an easy-to-use scheme
Over the last half-century, man has been replaced
By technocratic ideas of what a man is
But the real ma...
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Categories:
fanfares, political,
Form: Free verse
Intraspecific Competition
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Racists beat some other racists, bigots hate some other bigots
Gunman kill some other gunman, thieves deceive some other thieves
Politicians of both parties share the views that must divide them
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Categories:
fanfares, lost, philosophy, world,
Form: Free verse
-B R A S S I S T A-
...vibrating
embouchure
harmonically
inter-
facing
metal
with
flesh
in
resplendent
fanfares
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Categories:
fanfares, music,
Form: Didactic
Maestro - POTD
...Maestro – 4-23-24
Dedicated to Dr. Stanley Chapple. Co-founder of Tanglewood. Conductor of the London Philharmonic. Head of the Music School University of Washington. Conductor of the University...
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Categories:
fanfares, music, tribute,
Form: Free verse
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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Categories:
fanfares, music,
Form: Free verse
A Date With Spring
...Calm Spring
Winters dust fades
We’ll step out on that date
With the symphony of bird song
Brushing my cold bones with orange blossoms
Above ...
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Categories:
fanfares, encouraging, hope, spring,
Form: Rictameter
A Small Fanfare of Delight
...Daffodils march around an oak tree
fanfares from buttery throats,
yellow notes flutter as light
as butterflies.
Pond circling a pool of sunlight,
ducks circling the sun,
a child's red kite tu...
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Categories:
fanfares, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Harmony of the Whole
...HARMONY OF THE WHOLE
fruitful dialogues
prolific
in a multitude
of exchanges
of latest trends
circle&
orbit
the primitive
as aspects
conjure
intense moods
&
surface ...
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Categories:
fanfares, poetry,
Form: Other
A Man Above All Others
...By middle-age he became unseen
as he slipped by unnoticed
through a changing world.
When down town,
he walked unremarked among
the throng
though he clearly heard
fanfares, and the regal cry ...
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Categories:
fanfares, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Parade
...Commence the beating of the drum,
Sound the horns with fanfares blaring
Next see the floats with roses come,
Commence the beating of the drum
Acrobats, clowns, bands, then some,
All in t...
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Categories:
fanfares, holiday, march, music, rose,
Form: Triolet
A Man Above
...By middle age he became unseen and hatless;
would not look at the back of his head
as he slipped by unnoticed
through a changing world.
It was some recompense
that his Idea of ‘self’ had ex...
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Categories:
fanfares, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Valentine, How You Shine - Part - 6 - Valentine's Collection - 2020
...22.
I come to know an angel’s charms,
you are starlight within my arms.
in my heart, there are no alarms.
You are my everlasting spring,
your soft smile makes my heart to sing,
the glory of...
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Categories:
fanfares, dream, emotions, love,
Form: Sonnet
Traveller
...She came upon me in a dream deep down from within my destination
Which coursed the mind and soul of years for my memories' inspiration
The path was crowded with bouncing hooves and wagons decor...
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Categories:
fanfares, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Peace
...transference
mind field in transit
lost in modern translation -
translucent echoes
bog snorkeling
in trenches of fear
submerged breathless for glory -
mud medals and God
m...
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Categories:
fanfares, conflict,
Form: Haiku
Mushroom Cloud
...trench foot ankle deep
fanfares baptize innocence –
bugles sound defeat
30th January 2020...
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Categories:
fanfares, conflict, courage,
Form: Senryu
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