I close my eyes as my fingers dance and play the
Black and white keys, finding the right lyrics.
That echo, sounds resounding, rhythms that tempo
My heart, beating along, elevating in midair.
My keynotes are like a warm cup of cocoa on a cold winter day:
The pungent sweetness touches my tongue, trails
Down to my bosom and comforts my gut for hours.
Hobbies Poetry Contest
Sponsored: Julie Leigh Rodeheaver
2/21/19
Categories:
keynotes, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
As drizzle pours into an hour and another
I glimpse through the wide hole of a skyscape...
Frame by frame, vignettes from adolescence emerge
Where Mother plants new seeds—nettle, dahlia, herb--
Our backyard almost evergreen despite rain,
Tending the aisle of growing shoots with care:
And I wonder...does my parent know I am watching
When her delicate face ripens amid gale’s blow?
All at once, keynotes of life trail like a strained note
Her bent hands tilting up, pained, to taste the dew:
O those eyes dotted in Braille...weary, impaired
By sun-struck years overrun through ceaseless toil
In our garden’s lawn, paddling the holes
On marshy rails with interludes of blissful tunes,
Unmindful a visual sense wanes, stripping
An impassioned ritual to be left unsung:
Yet, it seems all the foliage knows her touch...
She, the key giver of root’s bloom.
1/18/2019 For John Lawless:
Slap The Muse And Turn It Loose
Categories:
keynotes, care, garden,
Form: Free verse
Abundant sunshine warms the day
Beauty delights, colors
call the soul to explore spring's gifts
Dappled woods, jonquils' butter
Echoing birds from tender limbs
Fabulous scents waft gently
Gorgeous sunrise transforms the scene
Habitats worked intently
Idealise the beauty of blooms
Jonquils, tulips flower
Keynotes to springs' vivacity
Luscious scents empower
Magnificent artistry lures
Narcissus white invites
Opulent scent streams forth in waves
Penetrating the night
Question not the wisteria's grace
Relish the beauty seen
Springform pan releases explosion
Tumbling out shades of green
Uninterrupted spring flows on
Validating rebirth
With wonder the world looks on
Xenopus gives birth
Yearly the splendor captivates
Zestiest season when love dates
Xenopus__An African clawed frog
Written: February 13, 2015
Sponsor: Shadow Hamilton
Contest: Abecedarian
Theme: Spring
Finis'
Categories:
keynotes, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry is inspirational rap
It sounds like a tap dancers
Tap, tap
Poetry floats
Like keynotes
“C” minor or
“A” flat
It’s the Jazzman’s skit scat
The Blues man’s fat
The Rockers bang their guitars
Like a baller uses his bat
Poetry
Is just
Like
That
Just
Like
That
Just
Like
That
Categories:
keynotes, poetry,
Form: Lyric
Altercations between couples deafens explanation, fuss gets heightened.
In juggling keynotes, Love masks nuisance, openly publicizing queen’s right.
Stained truth, undoubtedly vocals wear. Xenophobia yields zeal
Categories:
keynotes, life
Form: ABC
Swirling vistas of such sweetness found floating through the auspian air ~
Pen to pad calibre idioms beyond the verbs measuring these tidewater inkwells aside
Beauties, evergreen genetives in red, white and pinks, pronounced; Camelots dreams....
Testimonials of daybreak amid the pacific keynotes?!
Her ambient adverb treasures, gently washing upon the shore inside, my thirsting soul ~
These syntax reasonings postulating now their exotic gatherings; stencils
Moonstruck truths at contemporaries point break; subverting the translucent waves
Amplified currents in forms approaching this high tides, ecliptic heart....
Shadows once shimmering their syllables of review; now, a nouns verse!?
Swirling my spirit deep inside this melding aqua paragraphs, seaside melodies; rhymes
In literatures pacific daybreak keynotes ~
Postulating Moonstruck testimonials; syntax reasons floating through the air of this, loves
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...."Comtemporary Romance Novel?!"
Categories:
keynotes, faith, life, love, passion
Form: I do not know?
Sing
With keynotes of watch winds
Sway
With plants of high plateau
Converse
With shamanic powers
Communicate
With spirits of skies
Confront
Hallucinatory destinations
Death, desires, disorientations.
Magical modes in spinning wheels
Recesses in stones, meditations
And the perfumes.
Quescha ! cocarna ! Quenchensa !
Gloss of intoxications in lunar brain
Opening gateway into recreated gain.
Flute drums and cymbals
Da, dadedum , durkum.
Linked that will join the unknown sources
Flights of eagles, crows crawled in forces
Softly engaged in flights of the condor bird
Converting sounds of spaces in muted verse.
Categories:
keynotes, philosophy
Form: Lyric
Sing
With keynotes of watch winds
Sway
With plants of high plateau
Converse
With shamanic powers
Communicate
With spirits of skies
Confront
Hallucinatory destinations
Death, desires, disorientations.
Magical modes in spinning wheels
Recesses in stones, meditations
And the perfumes.
Quescha ! cocarna ! Quenchensa !
Gloss of intoxications in lunar brain
Opening gateway into recreated gain.
Flute drums and cymbals
Da, dadedum , durkum.
Linked that will join the unknown sources
Flights of eagles, crows crawled in forces
Softly engaged in flights of the condor bird
Converting sounds of spaces in muted verse.
Categories:
keynotes, allegory, visionary
Form: Verse
Coursing thru space ensemble of sound
intermitten pulsing forms a beat
even in silence felt aloud
harmonious treat
Structured count
coordinated movement
energy flows from distant fount
converging keynotes emit amazement
Categories:
keynotes, life, music, nature,
Form: Free verse