But a Whisper
...O gentle sleep. Most precious of secrets
Carefully placed between sunlight and twilight’s touch of warm air and wet kiss
Asunder from me, Yet all of me woven into a spiders web of silken spun str...
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Categories:
maestros, dream,
Form: Free verse
The Colours of Venice's Isles
...I've wandered many islands,
Seen countless shades of blue.
But none compare, my friends, to where
The glass and lace ring true.
Let me paint you a picture,
Of Murano's fiery art,
An...
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Categories:
maestros, appreciation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Maestros Violin
...Maestro’s violin floated to heaven ahead, clearing way for his gentle soul
Notes from Stradivarius warmed the angel’s hearts, reminding them
Rivaling classical melodies from other cloud realms, but...
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Categories:
maestros, music,
Form: Free verse
Hydrangea Hideaway
...Listen to the shifting winds
carrying musical meteors,
there soars floating
letters between
lyrical lines,
emanating runes
that reflect
revolving rhymes
of faith within
and beyond.
F...
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Categories:
maestros, faith,
Form: Free verse
Heartbeats in Heaven
...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.
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Categories:
maestros, absence, destiny, heaven, i
Form: Free verse
Virtuoso
...Letter chosen "V"
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Virtuoso
Carnelian dawn reflects red sun rising,
Mirrors glow of vermillion flycatchers,
With scarlet plumage, so mesmerizing,
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Categories:
maestros, bird, morning, song, star,
Form: Sonnet
Clerihew Strauss
...The Strauss family dynasty
maestros indeed all three
Johann Joseph & of course Richard
both musicians& bard...
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Categories:
maestros, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
An Ode To Florence
...The sacred lily of antiquity;
vital, that centuries have not defied.
Treasures, luminaries of Italy;
a preserved cultured ...
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Categories:
maestros, art, beauty, culture, faith,
Form: Ode
India's Mukesh, Kavi Pradeep, My Death
...No argument, no caste, nothing will matter
When India's erstwhile maestros sang in Hindi
Though mine is sparse, their songs made me traditional
O cultural shell! Wired so Indian, South African me
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Categories:
maestros, character, childhood, city, culture,
Form: Bio
Critical Race Theory 2021
...Black folk kept in sad condition
By owners without contrition.
What to do, what to do?
Wage war for emancipation
And forge a fresh slave-free nation.
The Forrest-Byrd Klan and Jim Crow
Surely...
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Categories:
maestros, music, political, race, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Celtic Poetry In the Rising Sun
...lovely words prance into her mind at night
spiritual guide helps with all of their might
exotic phrases dancing big and bright
but some disappear into the morning light
creativity resounds with...
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Categories:
maestros, poetry, word play,
Form: Rhyme
The Glue That Holds Us To the Canvas
...Like sparks trailing
from a million, billion fireflies,
a single thought limns a trillion suns.
From the first small bonfire
flickering across four million years,
whose light imprints itself
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Categories:
maestros, 9th grade, poetry, space,
Form: Free verse
H I J K L M and N
...Hippy hyena hid hipster hippo’s hysteria.
Ignominious iguana ignored Iceland’s icky industries.
Jovial jelly jars joyfully jumped jubilantly into June.
Kind kangaroos killed Kansas’s killjoy kindn...
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Categories:
maestros, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: ABC
Tanka Times Two - Time and Clocks
...Time racing quickly
Clocks ticking madly
The measures are absolute
Conducting meters of life
Keep pace with the race
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Categories:
maestros, life, time,
Form: Tanka
Magnificent Masquerading Marauders
...Magnificent marauders masquerading magically might mean
Messy mollusks masticate marbled marigolds momentarily.
Maybe.
Moreover, momentous mosquitoes might make marvelous mini-muffins mixing ma...
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Categories:
maestros, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Alliteration
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