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
Neither 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
World 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
The 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
Upheaval 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
Brittle 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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