How the echo filters reality -POTW
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charcoal grey horizon~
on the rusty cast iron bench
my old self sits in pensive mood
beside the lake beneath December sky
the wayward wind as it teases my hair
whispers melodies from long ag...
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Categories:
organist, feelings, memory,
Form: Free verse
No One Left to Remember
...Only three of us now who knew
both sets of our grandparents.
The three of us, 96, 94 and 88,
how much time have we left?
There are sepia photos from the
old, first Brownie cameras, a few
portra...
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Categories:
organist, family, grandparents, introspection, memory,
Form: Free verse
My Son Asked Siri to Play Mr Tangerine Man
...It happened around 10:05am and then
Somebody was parked in my driveway
I accosted the man
He opened the driver's window
Before I could speak he pinched my cheek.
"Cheers." He drove away
B...
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Categories:
organist, chocolate, music,
Form: Free verse
A Christmas Sonata
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Once upon a white winter wonderland
my love and I were walking hand in hand
beneath a gleaming moonlit starry sky
with a flurry of snowflakes swirling by.
Suddenly there came an ange...
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Categories:
organist, christmas, god, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Organ Grinder -
...Mine dad in the 1940’s was an organ grinder huh!, in the high seas in the Navy. In the 1940’s
Lo, the clanging, bopping, banging of prepare containers foods. Large coppers pans and pots.
Put tog...
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Categories:
organist, analogy, appreciation, engagement, food,
Form: Narrative
Jilted
...JILTED
He stood there at the altar,
The best man by his side,
Awaiting the arrival
Of his beautiful, blushing bride.
The vicar was getting anxious:
They should have started ...
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Categories:
organist, betrayal, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Gricketter
...I found a letter from December 5 1865
The address was written to
Fleckez Fintezy
of Zist Kandia
we looked up the place and found it to be unknown.
It stated dear Sir: my name needs not to be spo...
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Categories:
organist, business, friendship, jobs, music,
Form: Ballad
Clerihew Tallis
...Thomas Talis an organist
a renaissance polyphonist
With a varied musical track
he'd suddenly change tack...
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Categories:
organist, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Durufle
...Organist Maurice Durufle
a master musician in his day
A composer with much flair
with his choral Requiem so extraordinaire...
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Categories:
organist, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Pachbell
...Nuremburg's Johann Pachbell
organist& composer as well
Best known for his cannon in D I guess
& his influ upon Bach J S...
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Categories:
organist, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Beyond the West Window
...“The sounds of Earth is the music of my soul”
I remember the valley rolled with thunder
A section of tenors echoed from above
The sky was shredded, by forke...
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Categories:
organist, allusion, storm, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
A Nation of Narcissists
...fumigated like stockade lice
you Wall St. cologne jockeys
would be 3rd World land fill
recall that consciousness is tunable
adjust your volume to a comfortable level
because Turette's plus Alzhe...
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Categories:
organist, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Out of Tune
...Church organist, Augustus Bell is dead
In life he pulled out all the stops it's said.
Bite Size Poem No 22 Poetry Contest
Sponsor : Line Gauthier...
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Categories:
organist, humor, music,
Form: Couplet
An Embarrassing Moment
...It was a Sunday morning in June, how well I recall
I stood in the pulpit with my morning sermon in print
When all of a sudden I began to extemporize
A moment never to be forgotten--never at all!
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Categories:
organist, humorous, silence, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Songstress Sings Songs
...*Image of Mom Playing the Organ by My Family Pics.
Songstress Sings Songs
The Doxology chorus though widely sung owns a verse that
accompanies, although, beyond seasons past, ough...
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Categories:
organist, christian, heaven, mother, song,
Form: Epitaph
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