Grandpop and Grandma pop
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My dear grandpop and grandma pop
Took a short vacation
I remember how my mom felt
Full of frustration
Mom depended on them so much
Bab...
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Categories:
librettos, age, fun,
Form: Other
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:
librettos, music, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Lyrical Acrolect
...P o e t r y fills my heart
with lyrical acrolect:
slowly swaying
my fingers
to outstanding octaves,
through
ecstatic
liberated librettos,
uplifting in a
med...
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Categories:
librettos, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Ethereal
..."At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said or written." Rumi
Lyrics of loneliness liberate in a lucid langua...
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Categories:
librettos, assonance, death, loss,
Form: Alliteration
The Language of Blue
...The Language of Blue
Sinking into the lyrical language of blue
Prime layers of still solitude speak
With muted voices
In sapphire soprano rhapsodies,
Lines of bass blushes, electric flecks ...
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Categories:
librettos, blue, language, music,
Form: Free verse
Lyric
...Lyric
Life’s longing to sing out -
Lovely or lamenting,
Lively in lusty breaths,
Liberates lonely hearts,
Librettos live in love,
Limber lines of stage light
Lyrical luxury.
10-26-20
Con...
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Categories:
librettos, poetry,
Form: Verse
Turning the Flow
...you release my quill from dried out surrender
spell from a fountain of compassion and hope
poet tree in motion when blanks fill my space
book end of beginnings ...
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Categories:
librettos, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Vera Pavlova Translations
...Vera Pavlova English Translations of Russian Poems
I shattered your heart;
now I limp through the shards
barefoot.
—Vera Pavlova, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter...
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Categories:
librettos, autumn, seasons, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse
Political Music
...Distant piano music,
or is it the speech of a banjo
unearthed from some attic prison?
Wait, do I hear a flügelhorn moaning,
or is that a different conversation?
Brahms plucks at his peppery b...
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Categories:
librettos, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Music of a Poet's Soul
...A Poet....
Feels the very pulse of life!
Hears its crescendos and librettos
Composes them into words divine
And, if well-penned....
Touches a...
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Categories:
librettos, beautiful, poets,
Form: Free verse
Think Spring
...Now, unlike my usually trenchant literary librettos, i regale the unknown (tum me) reader for savoir faire articulation, elocution, and indomitable tour de force proffered by spectrum of bounteous ex...
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Categories:
librettos, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Imagism
The Poems Face
...I am drizzled from thoughts that the heart footholds
With words of wisdom which are pure as gold
And as I form into an underlying phrase
Every sentence takes it’s own place
With rhymes of wor...
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Categories:
librettos, cool, crazy, creation,
Form: Free verse
Follow the Poet
...Follow the poet to the bottom
Their scrivened souls lead there
Electric verbs and climatic curves
Stoking notions of hoisted up hairs
Winding down the patchy canyon
To laurel beds on librettos...
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Categories:
librettos, poems,
Form: Rhyme
The All Power Is Greater
...THE ALL POWER IS GREATER!
The Big Bang designed the stratosphere and troposphere.
Below both majestic presence, Earth is the topography.
Today, all God’s creature roams freely.
Human bei...
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Categories:
librettos, age, appreciation, blessing, god,
Form: Free verse
Does the World Need Another Sestina?
...Bloody, bloody Ezra Pound
I never got my head around
his magnum opus: The Cantos
I’ve tried so hard but goodness knows
he didn’t intend it to be easy
for me or his mate Mussolini.
Perhaps obs...
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Categories:
librettos, funnyme,
Form: Sestina
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