Fluted Poems

Dawn Chorale a Psalm of Wing

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From ground to high sky
birds fill break of day with song
feathered hymns rejoice—
dawn chorus of wing and will
call all to join nature's voice

Magpie's carolling
ignites dawn with fluted b...

Peregrine and Terrapin

...Time flies like a fiery peregrine
infinity takes its bronze sweetened time
seeing all with the opaque eye of the terrapin.

Time is a tambourine -it has little mercy
it'll wake you from you swee...

Nebulous Horizon

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Written: July 7, 2025, for a contest sponsored by Edward Ibeh

Quote: "Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul," By Rumi

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The Pied Piperess

...Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet

Once upon a time,  there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat
Beknownst to all...

A Personal Touch Valentine

...A Candy Storefront window, a passerby pauses briefly at the array of heart-shaped enwrapped in velvet reds, filled with sweet treats like years before. The same tricks deployed as the byway take poin...

Bello Bello

...Brahms Walz in A flat Major OP> Number 15
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Bello, Bello
your turban has come
Bello, Bello
your Turban has come
she bowed her head in
embasserment
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luxurious hotel lobby in 1962

...New Orleans’ 1962 ostentatious hotel lobby
extravagant crystal fluted chandeliers
highly polished walnut counter tops
opulent Italian marble floors
plush scarlet velvet cushioned couches
swankly...

Graying of the Artist

...time frosted the eyes
put buck shot to his voice box
they still came in flocks

the stage grows smaller
into yesterday they walk
hearts become fluted 
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Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed

...Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed

Pardon my hyperbole if in fact such embellishment can be sifted out amidst the pretentious poetry and/or prose NOT aired to appear superior, but more so ...

Nature's Song

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 A rhythmic refrain on the shore
 As waves caress it more and more
 A gentle breeze in fluted strain
 On the shore a rhythmic refrain

 As clouds pass by I hear a tune
 As wispy notes above a...

Imprints of our Shoes

...We tramp along the fire-trail to see a water view;
The sand is damp from morning rain, and imprints of our shoes
Are stamping in beside the chequered tracks of cycle tyres 
As Brett relates the na...

The final frontier post consciousness

...The final frontier – post consciousness

as imagined by cogent, fervent, intelligent,
lucent, occident, reticent, and uneminent 
nonestablishmentarian.

The following disquisition initially des...

From the Earth's Depths

...Written: September 24, 2023
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In the dawn-like haze—a shriek was heard,
An echo so shrewd, yet birdless, oddly slurred 
I...

Vanilla

...Ice, ice, baby
You pour me over maybe
A straw to pierce the depths
Inhale the deepest breaths

A fancy glass all fluted
In milky joy I'm rooted
A scoop of whizzed banana
Tastes of pure Americ...

Architect of Life

...I was an active, prominent architect, like fervent stars which race the sun,
Or exotic, summer flowers that bloom vibrantly, creating rapturous visions.

I'd wrought modernist skyscrapers, as huge...

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