Mallets Poems

Ghost Town

...I saw one with the placidness of death
A necropolis pummelled, with mallets of sorrow,
By the brutishness of Silence and numbed by the
Prickly shafts of premature grey hair, sickly and odorous.
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Categories: mallets, community,
Form: Free verse

Chinese Translations IV

...CHINESE TRANSLATIONS IV

These are English translations of Chinese poems about nature, the seasons, autumn, winter, spring, night, time, tears, flowers and love. 

Seeking a Mooring
by Wang Wei
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Categories: mallets, autumn, love, nature, night,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberNeither Cricket Nor Croquet

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   Discriminating palates
      garnish salads with shallots
    
   But when eating croquettes
      avoid mallets
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Categories: mallets, food, games, giggle,
Form: Rubai

Wrong Note

...On my first day of kindergarten, Mrs. Miller takes roll.
She begins some sort of symphony, a rapid chorus,
Emma, Jake, and Katie sing, Here, Here, Here!
Then, I hear a cacophony that doesn’t match...
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Categories: mallets, extended metaphor, innocence, music,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWorld Music in Dulcet Tones and Duduk Vibrations

...Across the globe, music ascends—a universal zephyr,
Bridging cultures in harmonious yearning;
Chords converge from Andes to the Zangezur, xenharmonic,
Dulcet tones of a duduk—in the air, they whis...
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Categories: mallets, culture, dance, humanity, music,
Form: Abecedarian


Premium MemberThe Fifth Season

...When I dream of sun graciously leaving the scene,
I could feel how crueler in these-days he has been;
Hasn't the dear summer said his grin-filled goodbye?
Why, then, is the naughty sun still high ...
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Categories: mallets, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

Hammerklavier

...Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers listen
through touch,
they become deeper, more blunted,
a vibration of mal...
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Categories: mallets, poetry,
Form: Free verse

No Fear 2 Volunteer

...When the Special Olympics roll around. 
Otis hears the call and the whistle sound. 
Whether the games are winter or summer. 
We bring the fun so it’s never a bummer. 

In Connecticut the events ...
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Categories: mallets, community, games, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Hammerklavier

...Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers don't grow deaf,
they become deeper, more blunted,
like mallets.

His apa...
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Categories: mallets, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUpheaval Nations

...Public protracts a meg night of sorrow.
My forebears' screaming intimidates me. 
I'm on high alert; catch my spirit growl.
Upheaval nations were met with fury. 

Whiners pelted wi...
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Categories: mallets, analogy, angst, bereavement, change,
Form: Dizain

Drum Beat

...Enticing beat,
ancient accolades, achieving ancestry
 backbeat barrage, buoyant beats
crescendo chorus  calculations
 dulled dirges, double drumming durations
environmental echoed egos
 faint, ...
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Categories: mallets, music,
Form: Abecedarian

Emilia In Romagna

...Emilia In Romagna

Somewhere a lost little girl
Is crying in her bedroom closet
Because she can’t hear
Her mama
Moving about anymore
She can see dim shapes
Mama stored stuff in here
Luggage ...
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Categories: mallets, absence, allegory, art, aubade,
Form: Free verse

Hammerklavier

...Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers don't grow deaf,
they become deeper, more blunted,
like mallets.

His apa...
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Categories: mallets, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberBrittle Hands

...your brittle hands were once like mallets    upon the lace of my youth



picture #2...
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Categories: mallets, age, youth,
Form: Monoku

Wordsmith

...WORD-SMITH 

As we forge all-over
Burning words like silver
Pouring inks like lava

Blasting papers like rods
Gripping pen like swords
Battling wrought like gods 

Considering the rallies
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Categories: mallets, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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