Long Cadences Poems
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Yet More Than a BrotherMoods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...
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cadences, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother, character, feelings, friend,
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Bio
Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentyeighth Legal By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s TWENTYEIGHTH LEGAL (Part One) by T. Wignesan
N.B. If any one is interested in reading the continuation of the extracts of letters that Eric Mottram wrote from America during 1965-66 to...
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cadences, america, creation, culture, film, race, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Of Allegorical Echoers(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots)
We may not be deemed apostolic recorders
But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are
The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of
Our life’s sojourn in the shadowing times
we spend here on this...
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cadences, allegory, analogy, black african american, hyperbole, imagery,
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Prose
Yet, More Than a BrotherMoods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...
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Categories:
cadences, allusion, analogy, beauty, character, dedication, encouraging, life,
Form:
Alliteration
The WindowMelted candles atop a resigned dresser
Wilted roses lying atop a white cloud
The flickering of fires and shadows mesh well with your
Batting eyelashes your heavy words and your breathing in rhythm with
the cadences of muted car...
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cadences, america, city, desire, emotions, heart, lust, political,
Form:
Free verse
Mink's Manifesto 2How can human deal with all the other animals with a sense of indisputable superiority? What makes them keep mollycoddling the mean motive of extracting from other animals as much as possible while paying little...
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cadences, animal, anti bullying, cry,
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Burlesque
Song of My LoveThe song of my love is heard
It travels over Seas and mountains
Bearing cadences that make the fishes dance
It frolics over hills and oceans
With rhythms that adorn the eyes of the sun
Sniffing the...
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cadences, africa, beautiful, devotion, feelings, inspirational,
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Blank verse
Restaurant Reapings 3Aware of my attention to her as well as my proximate presence, she went on in a steadily refined rhythm, neither upset nor uplifted, holding my slick sight at reducible ductility and scotching its sneak...
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cadences, inspirational, writing,
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Haibun
I am a poet - part twoI am also a prose poet, navigating the realms of expression unencumbered by the shackles of rhyme. In this vast expanse of literary freedom, I find my solace, my sanctuary. My words flow unencumbered, liberated...
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Categories:
cadences, introspection, poems, poetry, poets, simple, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Allow the MindAllow the mind
Afford its need to conjure
Profound:
If exaltation and majesty
Require a bit of provocation and amnesty today
Humor:
As remedy and coagulation
From the bleeding of
Pain, stress and anger
Affection:
To reach out from solitary
Disconnectedness and remind
Ourselves that human beings...
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cadences, humanity, imagery, imagination, introspection, judgement, language,
Form:
Free verse
BeautySunday morning and the rain is still falling
After lightning parted the night sky
And shook windows with the thunderous sound
Of the parted clouds crashing back together
And after this night of pouring rain, howling winds
And flashing windows...
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cadences, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Gun Violence Blues - CorrectedGUN VIOLENCE BLUES - corrected
They built a gun-violence memorial
in a god-forsaken corner of my
struggling city
A collaborative effort of a few academics,
a handful of neighbors, a preacher or two,
and some interested parties...
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Categories:
cadences, community, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Gu Violence BluesGUN VIOLENCE BLUES
They built a gun-violence memorial
in a god-forsaken corner of my
struggling city
A collaborative effort of a few academics,
a handful of neighbors, a preacher or two,
and some interested parties with a...
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Categories:
cadences, community, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Window SeatWINDOW SEAT
Sitting beside him in the window seat as they
taxied for take-off at the end of the day, she was
nubile and pretty, as young as his daughter, nearly
perfect in the way of a late-autumn sunset...
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Categories:
cadences, love, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Morning Raga - "tell Me a Story!"In the first grey light of dawn, a young woman begins the morning song.
The simple cadences of her song are as tranquil and liquid as the monsoon rain,
Trickling down the broad leaves in her...
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Categories:
cadences, happiness, love, musicsong, husband, girl, husband, love,
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Narrative
Kristel SettlesKristel had some old scores to settle for good or for better
She had tried the violin with no significant results other
Than a crystalline chandelier shattering quite frequently
When she raised the bow after too shrieking concertos
In...
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Categories:
cadences, music,
Form:
Free verse
Oratory - Power of the Spoken WordAs words escaped constricted passage
of time from eons of layered myths,
legends of demi-gods thus linked,
in glowing rendition, with whisk on hand
the Orator with staff, sang the Eel to slumber.
As words from parched lips of orchids,...
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Categories:
cadences, art,
Form:
Spoken Word
You Speak, In SurrenderYou speak— to me without an utterance
In every sunset you speak
Brilliant orange hues dance fervently, igniting all in sight;
setting the horizon ablaze. A gentle sapphire tide gently, beckons the crimson fire to
subside, as...
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cadences, introspection, nature, passion, peace, me, longing, me,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Sound ArgumentSnick-woosh, rushing stream
Clink, gurgle, doppler shift
Glub then tinkle, drip drip
Crystal scrape metallic
A plastic click, pause, muffled hiss
Gurgle, snort, chuckle, snuff
Plink… Plink plink… Drizzle, drip, drizzle, drop
Coffee is brewing
Dry rustle, crinkle, pages on wood
Chock, thwock, slap,...
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Categories:
cadences, sound,
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I do not know?
The ContrastIn slumbering slope they lay,
their gaiety snores in rhythmic peaks of cadences,
The lily livered japes
Kings from central castings,
Heroes of one hour,
jostling for President with mere words ...
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cadences, africa, character, courage, freedom, hero, history, passion,
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Dramatic Verse
Fate's FootfallsPacing myself as slow as I possibly could,
I fell upon mounts trying to reach the top.
I thought I knew what my life would become,
when it was time to relax, I couldn’t stop.
I tried with stride...
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Categories:
cadences, fate, future, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Schweitzer's CreedIn his book, "Out of my life and thought" Albert Schweitzer recalls
the afternoon in a boat at Lambarene, where he first conceived
his guiding philosophy, "Reverence for Life". The staggering
implications of such a seemingly innocuous...
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Categories:
cadences, life, universe,
Form:
Free verse
A Heart's Melody*Image of Music Heart by Pixabay.
A Heart's Melody
Harmony palpitates...conducts the abandoned chamber,
albeit, interludes providently...kept in tune with themselves.
The metered winks...influencing oneness to soothe and rise.
The cloud nine reviewed....negotiating remembrances
of "Each and All", the "Earth...
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Categories:
cadences, extended metaphor, heart, imagery, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Life is a Song
“Life is a song in which everyone makes up the keys and harmony as they sing along.” - Mitta Xinindlu
In rhythms of light, softly glowing
Bringing the night a glimpse of serenity,
Feelings abiding in the soul,...
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Categories:
cadences, appreciation, beautiful, inspirational, life, light, music, song,
Form:
Free verse
Heart Truth*Image of Two Hearts Drawn On Sand by Heart Images.
Heart Truth
Harmony resonates...fulfills an abandoned chamber,
albeit, interims vigilantly monitored...by one's self,
seconds fleet onward...persuading one's lips to rise gladly.
Gleeful eyes revisit....a hosts of crossing memories,
each and...
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cadences, heart, truth,
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Sijo