Sad Notes Poems

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a walk through the woods
thousand blended notes I heard
some sweet and pleasant
while others grievous and sad
“Just what has man made of man?”
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The notes from piano keys tap on my heart
This music reaches a sad place, a very sad place
Where tears hide and heartbeats hold painful things
My...

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player in the park
       plays his  copious sadness
       re minor Sad notes...

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sigh ...
it must be nice ...
to ripple the waters, so-to-speak
to leave in a blaze of glory
and affect change in doing so
I admire that courage -
that...

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Is it ‘friendship’ you proffer (to strangers who ask)
If you’re ‘sap for sad stories,’ deny other’s truth,
If you’ve something to barter, a ‘twit’ for ‘****’...

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Much ado here
With poise that skips
Our purpose here


Too much acid
Now fizzles buzz
Lost cause sinks


Why worry now?
Stay on the way
Of mindful hope


When joy goes
Sense empty shell
Frame...

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You used to
lovingly coax my
keys with your
melodies
flirt and tease so playfully
high-note hitting glee

We enjoyed
taking tunes apart
upside down
inside out
syncopated Beethoven
bobbidy-boo beats

No small feat
with shimmy and shake
boogie,...

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Her trembling twilight 
dims with streaking purple tears
bruised by youthful years of bleeding pain
hurting but never hugged --
locked in the arms of atmosphere’s apathy
that smeared...

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"A Paris"
Jazz and ballet
White dresses
Red wine

Violin strings
Moulin dances, stories so grim
Le Bois de Vincennes
Castles under clouds of sin

Cafes with causal chatter
When after all
What does life...

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Jack's Somber Notes

jack fiddles life away on his thumbs
the little digits beating like drums
over loaf he brow
buttering skid row
from his jam he's awaits for crumbs

connie...

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Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There...

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Brief notes are possibly now in order
To give shape to order out of disorder.

A sad loneliness can give way
To the peaceful realm of solitude.

When solitude...

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His Mirrored Keepsake

one by one the monarchs kissed his canvas
impressions orange and black
etched, two cried eternal

4/5/17

Notes-this poem carries messages below the surface. The artists is...

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playground politics

we zap and zip
read my lips
we hide and seek
from teacher's peek
on swings
we wing 
on slides
we cried
marbles play 
swords we flay
should i repeat
another beat
marbles play
swords...

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Brief notes are possibly now in order
To give shape to order out of disorder.

A sad loneliness can give way
To the peaceful realm of solitude.

When solitude...

Read More