Long Chorale Poems

ISLAND HOPPING
by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


My first day of community service at Glen Oaks
Assigned to spend time with a few elderly folks
Spotted an old gentleman staring out into space
Weathered beaten hands and a sun etched face
How are...

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Note: "How can there have been such strife in a Morlde` filled with beautiful Music; &
how could there have been beautiful Music such in a Morlde` filled with strife?"  -Soupy 
Sales, 2012.

The 12 Panes...

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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES - LIV : Swatting flies in Buckingham Palace from the White House

When Bianca Nobilissima, the statuesque Sea Anne-Anne anchor in her Star-Trek heat-wave get-up exposing her sculptured architectural buoy spaces from head to...

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*Image of A Universal Star by Private Stock.

A Penitent Soliloquy

It is in junctures like these that I encounter myself 
traversing a meadow of spring colors just yon the lea
where purples and pinks contest further
plus blues...

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Whatever Weekend

Being humble common pathways ere,
I ought traveled nearby that lea,
Past the margin of my home there,
Where the daffodils fickle sprightly,

As I shared the natural trail lead,
General impressions befall o'er sunlit,
E'er lighthearted...

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*Image of Achieve Your Day by Pixabay.

Blessed Moments

As night sleeps gold streaks undisturbedly passive wake
     An accordion of yellow feathers flutters dealt reflectively
        ...

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*Image of Education by UY.

A Cog in The Machine

Life advances their kind of entrusting stays,
origin of roots possessing foundation,
flung to care sprouts variable promises,
~~executes each seed.

The great void advents the id of emptiness;
launched needs, yet...

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Exultant joyous voices 
                         magnify the God of glory
Triumphant midst sustained...

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SMOKING WILL KILL YOU

He said “Smoking will kill you!”
catching the faint smell, scanning 
for ash trays as he entered her apartment,
ready to accept months of miscalculation 
of red lips and laughter, dark hair and desire,...

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(Wems Henry Temmy Psalm 80)

I have avoid many a problem 
My own way painting lines of poem
None solved or boost my morale 
I just ended up being a chorale 
But You; oh Lord, when You...

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Like secret water
hidden inside the stone
love of my mother flows
unconditionally with life at stake
for her depth and unbridgeable width
I need not go to any sea
in search of my existence.

A knock at the soft corner of...

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Well, it’s coming again, my poet friends-
A hint and then a wide burst of buds.
It’s that fling of spring thing,
Coming fast, hitting hard and smelling good.
A mass of a flash of green, seen
Plus the famed...

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Before the Christmas season arrives 
    Three red cardinals swoop down ….
The first sits on top of a branch right
    In the middle of a ten foot 
Snow-covered pine...

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Applauding an Acrostic Aria
Bopping to a Ballade Ballet and Blank verse Berceuse
Clapping to a Cinquain Cantata and Couplet Chorale
Dancing to a Dizain Duet
Exalting in Etheree Etudes and Elegy Ensembles
Frolicking to Free verse Folk songs and...

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The monsoonal matriarch cradles her pregnant belly 
Delirious with life giving blood from the womb of all nature’s gifts
As she lays distended, expectant and grey
Upon the craggy summits

Her breath billows above the bloated forests
Nurturing ominous...

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The monsoonal matriarch cradles her pregnant belly 
Delirious with life giving blood from the womb of all nature’s gifts
As she lays distended, expectant and grey
Upon the craggy summits

Her breath billows above the bloated forests
Nurturing ominous...

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Ah, little squirrel, there you are again
Digging what you buried long ago
And here I am trespassing your domain
And shivering in the wintry blow
       You've come down, and I've come...

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All of us scurry on stage

Heels and teeth chattering

The judge fills out her page

Our dresses are less than flattering

Our moderator waves, we all engage

Unfocused thoughts start scattering

We pray our voices have come of age

As we...

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JOYOUSLY, WE BE

Pillows, pillows, rainbow pillows everywhere
amidst this sea of pillows, two in lounging share--
capering aplenty, teasing, teasing thee.
Fun-filled laughter bubbles up, joyously, we be.

Fluffy, fluffy cotton knobs, wrap next to 'bods
Tuck so right in...

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Pillows, pillows, rainbow pillows everywhere
amidst this sea of pillows, two in lounging share--
capering aplenty, teasing, teasing thee.
Fun-filled laughter bubbles up, joyously, we be.

Fluffy, fluffy cotton knobs, wrap next to 'bods
Tuck so right in a hug,...

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Oh how you cantilate and croon,
          On pilfered beams from Mr Moon,
              ...

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The runner, lonely in his stead, does go
both feet a cumbered patter, sure and long
with weight his countenance will not bestow

against the heavy breaker's undertow.
As rival sinews, breath and bone hold strong
the runner, lonely in...

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Stillness envelops me now 
Wishing I could hear your whispers
But mortar shells rattled my ears 
From air raids on the battle front
Constant blasts pierce anvil and hammer
Leaving me deafened through echoes of night.
 
My return...

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As I watch this radiant space
Beyond cloud’s torch, prayers retrace 
Where the ledges of Prague’s border 
Adorns steeples touching moonlight.

In Lesser Town of holy rites,
Infant Child stands like gleam so fair
As I watch this radiant...

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Amidst the cool breeze of the dawn, the hope is on aborning.
For every tear down the face of the sky,
There is a rainbow smiling.
For every sinister's shadow, the silent sentinel is on watch.
Ready to spoil...

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