Long Overtones Poems

I saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared...

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I was restless all the night,
The demoness softly singing a haunting tune
The Holy Spirit sifted in swirls around me,
And she touched with her claws its essence with strange wonder

I awoke to his songs strong and...

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(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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Legendary compositions that made
the world learn to like music
people studied and bought
instrument to play
his songs.
he filed an alias document
to use an alte name when he performed
he spoke of music by the great
composer.
Millions never knew it...

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A steel sky, wan and dull, littered
	With ragged clouds and
		bitter dregs of a world girding for
	Sleep
		But no rest
by day, draws a frame over grim roofs and vapid doorways.
Indolent breezes rustle debris past shuffling feet of
	Staggering...

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----paranoid, pornographic, psychotic, pontific, politically aware, rapping, rhyming, right here, right now in River city, rock and roll up the Yazoo, sad, sadistic, sarcastic, sassy, satanic, schizoid, shitting, silly, sexy, smarmy, smelly, smooth, snarky, snarling,...

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Old
Old is a key word
Old friend
Old friend come to the end

End
End is THE word
End of my old friend
End is REALLY the word

At first the news is surprising    shocking
The news is mystifying
My reaction...

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My heart grieves for past warmth, rocking guilt back and forth
Like a cradled infant, deceased, and torn
I wailed inside and expressed what the babies could not,
Pierced so purposefully. . . their blood drizzled lightly upon...

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A granny in a brightly lit flower frock is neither a spinning wheel or a basket of multi coloured wools. Multi coloured wools are very very useful indeed for wool wafts wonderful warmth. And warmth...

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Seeking Ever The More, Greatest Of Truths

I.

The soul, which like a heart true beats
hers to my love forever weds
singing songs that passions entreat
to invite joy to lover's bed
tho' Fate oft dances as it cheats.

II.

And Spring...

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Anticipatory overtones of indiscretion
Summoning the spare change of society
To rise up above normality
And to….

Super sonic microfilms of history
Telling a different story
A time when things were black and white
Preserved forever to a disk

Word  spoken splices...

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As cold as ice
Wrapped round your brain
And darkness unfolds
You’re breathing in pain

It’s been freezing here   
In this Land of Shattered Dreams 
It’s been freezing here 
This corrupted winter stings 

It’s been freezing here...

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(The rehab of a supervisor)

My eyes!  Saturated
with industrial crap, eventually
to intoxicate what’s left of one’s
bewildered brain.
My sight!  Shackled to the
delusion of corporate inconsistencies,
when leading one’s head through each
enigmatic juncture.
My ears!  Burn with...

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Allow me to confess how gratifying it is
To see the rainfall of lights permeate through your eyes,
Swirling lightening warmth into my own
To see your thoughtful lips curve into a summer's beam
We energize each other as...

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Moonlight Colour

On this night, there was a girl.
She shuffles along a path of stone.
Along the trail where shadows dance,
moonlight is the only colour.
In the dark, the animals feast.
Poor tiny creatures, cute and warm.

Inside her coat...

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Christmas time haiku -
“tableaux d’une exposition”
post-it notes on walls

Long Tooth
May 25, 2016

The painting here is a beautiful portrait of Mussorgsky the composer of the famous classical work 'Pictures At An Exhibition.'

This haiku is a very...

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Truth has a way
To greet fond spell;
Beauty flowers

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Magic moments
Joy in sweet smiles;
Floral bright blooms

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Cheer comes to call
Another milestone;
Change brings memories

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Touch of delight
Frosted cream cheese;
Lemon zest cake

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Cocoa ecstasy
Chocolate ganache cake;
Heavenly bliss

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Espresso moment
Caffeine swirl;
Fragrant brown brew

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Old news...

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Crystal morning light,neon bright
                               ...

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Don't Work TOO Hard!
The phrase, "Don't work TOO hard!" rolls off the tongue like breathing out into
a vacuum 'vampires' dream (that sucks space dry between consumptive hearts).
Some folks may shrug 'phrase' off as being vacuous...

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Spring in her step, she’s stepped into spring;
Long silence lapsing, she’s longing to sing.

Keying the lock, she unlocks the keys,
Soothing sweet sonnets, soft melodies.

Tuning her pitch, she pitches her tune;
Heavenly choirs, splendidly crooned.

Flirting with flowers,...

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Progressive letters talk and reel
Tempting minds at the brink of fruition
Imaginative portents come to being
Through the exchange quality of mental travel
Ideas fashion acclaim and source the brain
Stimulating fervor glows mutant at souls pestering

But when boundaries...

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PRIORITIES
By Sammy L Holt, Sr.

Throughout our lives we celebrate,
Special events and even some days,
We always allow an amount of time,
And make a big deal in different ways.

The ides of March is no big deal,
But we...

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A foggy morning with dreary overtones
Can cause the spirit to spiral downward
Eliciting slow-moving, guttural groans
A foggy morning with dreary overtones,
It makes us feel like decrepit, old crones
Roadblocks in the way of moving forward,
A foggy morning...

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I take my pain to where ragers rage and writhe
in their self-absorbed gluttony on all-winter days
their tea cups are only for them
interspersed with silence and solitude
the streets are buildings without them
  who are the...

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Glorious hues arise from halo of morning sky
As dreamy eyes take me on a wondrous ride
Where cottony clouds scatter layers of purple
Adorning with shades of heliotrope flowers.

On my ride I visualize a celestial place on...

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