Long Ostinato Poems

Shuffling wreck, legacy of a life well spent;
Knees creaking, clicking articulations, a
Spine complaining, shoulder crunching. 
Legs spindly toothpicks beneath a pregnant olive,
A-cups sagging. Lungs afire at the 
Leaping up of stairs, gasping breaths.

A visit to...

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Dream catchers chime in the wind,
like soft tones of a xylophone.
Melodic melancholic rain,
is free flowing,
but morning birds still arrive,
sitting on wet window sills,
singing about their desires.

In daffodil daydreams,
the breeze resonates like a flutist,
gently swaying bluebells...

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Nimblest stick skims hit drum skin
         Bring submittance to my ears afore deafened
              ...

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Enticing beat,
ancient accolades, achieving ancestry
 backbeat barrage, buoyant beats
crescendo chorus  calculations
 dulled dirges, double drumming durations
environmental echoed egos
 faint, fading fervent falsettos;
Ghost-Note grooves
 hi-hat hoop heads hued
intended isolation idio-synchrony
 jembe jaunt journeyings
kidi kick knockings
...

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Chave de ouro 2022

Se você se une
a pessoa 
para trabalhar 
naquilo que está 
diante de todas, 
com ostinato rigore,
vigor e calma
mas satisfeita
com sua atividade atual, 
e com a verdade 
absoluta em
cada palavra 
e som que...

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Rain

Music is like rain: each note
Washes away a care, a worry;
As raindrops wash dust
From a leaf.

Symphonies are storms: a deluge of
Notes engulfs a broken spirit, a
Sweeping flood, washing clean
A new life.

Soft showers are summer sonatas:
Sprinklings...

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