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Overtone Poems - Poems about Overtone

How to Make Love to a Didgeridoo X
...A cello moans through cedar fog, low notes trembling between her teeth. Amber bowstrings tighten, vibrating against ribs— wood groans beneath the weight of sound. Resin clings to fingertips, d......

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Categories: overtone, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jolted by Twilight
...Quote: "Tomorrow's sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise." Unknown Author of a well known poem. As the day meanders by, Sunbeams still stream from the sky......

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Categories: overtone, sunset,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member When dawn drifts into enchanted meadows
...The meadows are charmed and filled with delight. Presently steeped in the darkness of night The cool air is warmed as a new day has begun. She peeps over the horizon, hail praise to the s......

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Categories: overtone, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Get Ready 1275
...“Capturing my imagination of a candle in glorious blaze, My breath extinguishing it to get ready for the dark night haze.” The Poet Sunset’s glowing color of crimson and gold is in sight, I se......

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Categories: overtone, night,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Bells
... Multitudinous bells secern the tones as may resound sharp bamboo xylophones. Pulchritudinous bells have rhythmic ding, others that linger with tedious ring. Some little bells can echo a jin......

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Categories: overtone, celebration, christmas, funeral, music,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Days End
...The day is done. Travel dispersed, no more roaming. Between dusk and sunset, it’s the gloaming. I settle to watch, inspired by that instant moment, When day gives over to night a regal bestowmen......

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Categories: overtone, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gloaming
...The day is done. Travel dispersed, no more roaming. Between dusk and sunset, it’s the gloaming. I settle to watch, inspired by that instant moment, When day gives over to night a regal bes......

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Categories: overtone, sunset,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Unbeknownst To Rhymezone
...Making it known in the twilight zone, an unknown, error-prone player reached a milestone using follicle stimulating hormone to produce a phytohormone clone of Alicia Silvestone honed from a ......

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Categories: overtone, fantasy, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Reason, Therefore 'Litter Be'
...We Reason, Therefore “Litter Be!” (1) “Litter be, litter be, litter be, litter be!” (2) Hear our future’s judgment, “Litter be! Oh, Oh, Oh!” Yes, dinosaurs still roam t......

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Categories: overtone, philosophy, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prose Poem Liberty
...Liberty,the poet’s pride where inspiration flies free in light&space.Concentrated& alive this friend within,distilling hidden essence ,the unstated enigma,an overtone without words,flooding out as ye......

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Categories: overtone, freedom, word play,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Village On the Rhone
...Beside the placid waters of the Rhone A classical village rises to meet the sky, The magnificent steeple an inverted cone Hoists a Saint Anthony’s cross to passersby. The placid waters of the R......

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Categories: overtone, art, river,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Two Souls Lost At Sea
...Who am I to take her innocence. To caress her untouched virgin fibers. This is not a negative connotation of lust, it's an intimate overtone to show affection. I tell my heart to be patient, y......

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Categories: overtone, angst, devotion, love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Boredom
...Boredom is an overtone of the quotidian..the everyday the mundane..as is said "same old same old.." seemingly there is belief of an inequality showing up on occasion and labeled as exciting......

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Categories: overtone, anxiety, courage, identity, longing,
Form: Blank verse
Another Nostalgia Trip For the Kid
...blinded by a rhythm that died a long time ago i revive the beat and myself everytime i press the fingerprint today i mark with makeshift age spots nowadays i decorate with a few long forgotten not......

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Categories: overtone, music, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Here and Now
...A chain of events has lead me to this here and now, it is a twisted chronicle and woeful history; but, I will spare you the complete saga of my life. I have spent part of my journey ba......

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Categories: overtone, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme

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