Long Requiems Poems

Alas
how they suffer
poverty seeds disease 
like a puddle breeds mosquitoes - 
the sickly buzz is everywhere..

the dirge of the drudge 
nowadays damn near everyone in refrain
rites and rituals --
enough to almost make this heartless
hooded old...

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I write my thoughts 
on paper,
 let  ink of my soul
      glow, amidst the grief
     I carry in echoing stillness, 
   for it...

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Music is an undying 
art of soul ~ 
an abstract eden, where, 
euphonious unicorns 
glide in strawberry sonatas, 
amplifying rhapsody in
ballads of flight, 
when fuchsia feathers
tease those 
jingling breezes, 
infusing breaths
in every lifeless aroma;
where I...

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Children of Guernica

Children of Guernica . 
 
In deserts of no mans land 
children play among the dead 
killer themes from killer kings 
what is the song they sing 
comes raining down in 
shrews of...

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In my blooming brokenness,
        I seek for a 
    clue of something meaningful,
but what if nothing    of velvety value
   ...

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Pull back the covers and experience,
Just how fresh and crisp it is inside,
Discover a poet who once lived among us,
And built community,
Out of encouragement, fun and wondering

Like you, he pondered the mysteries of foreign flagged...

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“instrumentalising mind, I rested thought
employing it only when needed
shifting to heart, I became self-taught
gentling touch, voice of conscience heeded” ~ Unseeking Seeker

When thoughts purge in restlessness,
       we pause the...

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Heartstrings stretched tightly
Over love’s violin
The bow of memory slides slightly
Stirring you once again
 
                     ...

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Just as God cast Lucifer from his Millennial Kingdom
So too have I been ousted from your Turbulent Heaven
And as a fallen general would fall on his sword
So too do I feel icy metal piercing my...

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I would ask Earth 
to relentlessly rewrap Her darkening veil.

Yet at what risk of depressing our healthiest outcomes
could "right now" wishes always incarnate last pleasure?

Restless religious 
and political opportunity dreams
of anthro-
and ego-omnipotence

Why does merely natural...

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Sometimes when 
moonlight weeps to sleep,
I sit, draped 
in burning dreams,
and beautiful nightmares 
of moments lost,
engraved along the rising
of blushing blossoms,
within cerulean azure.

But shadows fade, 
as clarity descends 
upon the ivory beach,
adorned in pearls 
and...

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my name means flames that crawl down your face and ruin your night
it's when you laugh so hard you break your spine
but then realize you never had one in the first place
it's when you beg...

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"Until the fish learns to fly
            Or until the birds learn to swim"
           ...

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The North Wind whistles as she lifts
her soft and sequenced hair,
her milky gown glows amethyst
as moon drops gather where
the Earth’s soft, gentle eyes fall closed
and tears arrest the night.
Her sleepy heart, to all exposed
abreast the...

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I know village where blessings is their curse
From their mountain of gold they mine penury
Right in the village square is fountain of thirst 
where Fathers won't stop narrating to child
The old tales of enmity as...

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I walk the stars beyond my shadowed dreams.
Not cognizant, the mortal dim of eyes -
On twilight’s breast, my coalescent seams.

Kids’ adorn’d my hair - my birthday crown, beams.
No strength to snuff the light…I see the...

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Never been afraid of the nought,
Until your existence came upon.
Never feared requiems,
Until your breath stirred my life.
Did not mind stoicism,
Until your smile revitalized everything around.

It is like
every light, every meaning,
every sunshine and every wonderful thing
that...

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Vivaldi in every season https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/vivaldi_presto_1146945

Satie minimalist music https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/contrarian_chords_another_satie_tribute_1169333

Cage piano  happenings https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/happening_poem_1_ear_candy_988004

Brubeck-& all that jazz  https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/happening_no_4_ear_candy_998687

Haley rock 'n roll https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/footle-around_the_clock_141264

Elvis Always on my mind https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/it_seems_like_yesterday_120657

Mahler the majestic https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/happening_no_8_ear_candy_1002335

Christian hymnody https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/an_easter_hymnody_215744

Requiems many&varied https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/requiem_468371

Worship music https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvLxZEU02uI...

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Waiting for a thought, an image or something; anything....
To jump start this heart; dead on arrival ? Sounds so familier
As sorting through life's dumpster a rag doll, baby hope; discarded
While time unwinds it's same old...

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Line of inquiry - Ego shorn, here now reborn.

Unselfish Heart

The glow of the unselfish heart
Decorates emptiness with candles
While scattered relics of garden purity
Re-light votives in Babylon
In the gleam of selfless candelas
Nascent tapers breathe new oxygen
In...

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Eighty-eight keys of ivory
Create the story of history
From requiems and waltzes
To rhythm and blues,
From dirges and ballads
To pop and rock,
How amazing! What stories are told
By gifted musicians and eighty-eight keys.

In our music room
Eighty-eight keys are...

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House Wrens in the Cottonwoods trill
Sonorous requiems ringing out as poetry
In sullen streams of languid silence-
A eulogy of bereft love 

Wistful woeful clouds scuddle
Across the somnolent heavens
As the fading of your footsteps once more
Have found...

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Death-strong! This scourge asphyxiating Earth;
Graves, flames, requiems and urns, these rites in dearth,
Corpses as sheaves, scythe trails bloodless casualties;
Time knells the toll and grimly mocks to pleas,
Shame born in guise of chaos for strong no...

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No pardoning of graveyard bones;
I have my head been shaking at those of the late Jones.
A sinner falls asleep and God withdraws His interest
Whether in the East domiciled or in the West;
Always disdaining our intercessory...

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When the wicked winter comes
seeping past the wards she keeps,
she looks on as he succumbs,
thanking God it's while he sleeps.

She finds she is ill prepared
when the wicked winter comes,
to let go the life they shared.
Anguish...

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