Long Percussions Poems

Instrument 

Play it 
Play the tune 
Doesn't it take you, to the moon 
Imagine me a flute 
Play the note 
It sends you to a space 
Where do you want to float 
Float on a...

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Winter Sonata 11-29-23
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Winter Sonata

In grave allegro solo grey gathers,
Strings of winter fantasias
Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,
Downbeats for the first movement
As shivering sleet wipes away bucolic barcarolles
Rocking on sapphire barges,
Harbingers of hoarfrost and hibernation,
When leafless...

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"When I stand with this silence
between us all, we are still never here --
and then I move and your whole world
shifts, and there you are.  We were."
       ...

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As I sit in front of the piano
I miderocricy created a tune
And to the holy on
For He's is the only one
The Holy one  the angel sings a song

Let the voices sing;
Let the voices sing,...

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TEMPTATION'S TOUCH
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His palm soothes the ridges
Furrowed in her starlight skin
Her masseur, he replenishes
Each and every aching extremity
The chiming bells of his strokes
Ring again and again
Summoning her to his lair
Collaged in deep affinity
Her rock solid attraction
Draws...

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The Instrumentalists

Percussions: Tectonic plate movement, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions
Strings:        Solar wind and flares, meteor hits, and galaxy intrusion
Reeds:         Polarity arrangement, methane...

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Composed, he walks towards the podium.
At first to applause, until a hush forms.
His heart beats like a water pump,
sweat drips - eyes fixed at his ensemble.
Audience anticipates,
as he stands at the nexus of musical creations.
With...

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I can still feel the weight of the heat colliding with my face as I first stepped off the plane, 
And how beads of sweat would tickle my neck the same as when it rained,
How...

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Interst he found it hard to stay
interested, probably due to his
lack of relating to the subject matter.
Things I had never seen
words that didn't relate to the subject matter

" love what do it look like
and what...

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When you struck me,i vibrated like a kettle drum
then as smaller percussions and repercussions
echoing from all the glassy surfaces
creating a balletic geometry of sound tracks
in space and time.

When you knocked me down,
I fell against her...

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Today is the day
To get things done
Come on girl
I know you have it in you
Roll your sleeves up
There's dishes to be washed
And laundry to be spun
There's checks to be written
And groceries to be picked up
Your...

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My silence is as loud as the Djembe 
Calling on people to gather together in peace
My silence is as loud as the African drum
A skilled drummer is one who can make the Djembe talk 
In...

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Alligators never blink
Bewitching their prey with stares
Creatures submerged in the night
Deep divers holding their breath
Easily hiding away
Fearing their discovery
Generations have wrestled
Hesitant charms and potions 
Investigating danger
Joking and trying to calm
Killing them before they kill
Left in...

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Symphony of the Devil
(and yes I do play with fire 
on a number of levels... hehehe)


Drums of despair
Beating my will...
My Surrendered soul
Bleeding unrepaired

Horns of dissention
Devouring their fill…
My Surrendered soul
Painful comprehension

Strings of consternation
Branding their way
My Surrendered...

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Heed close, Heed well,
As I on a poem dwell,
It ends not here,
But in the gateways of Hell

In sound mind I evade,
The inevitable work through man's spade,
Percussions and thunders our state invade,
And roar like a lion...

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Hanging in my living room are trees
And a seagull, God's gifts living free.

The trees are Van Gogh, cut off is ear.
Starry, starry night I've seen. It's clear

He was an artist as are the musicians.
Guitars, pianos,...

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