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Overtones Poems - Poems about Overtones

Dream-Drunk Love
...You’ve lived through loss— you’ve battled unuttered shame— yet you hold onto Love like it is more than a Delusion—it is Honor—precious and rainbow-like—shimmery and shadowy all in one. Yo......

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Categories: overtones, addiction, art,
Form: Free verse
A GOLDEN AGE
...A GOLDEN AGE It was the early Sixties when music changed Rock Around The Clock had paved the way But many previous styles had seen their day As modern songs were differently arranged The Mer......

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Categories: overtones, music,
Form: Rhyme



Elevation
...Legendary compositions that made the world learn to like music people studied and bought instrument to play his songs. he filed an alias document to use an alte name when he performed he spoke......

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Categories: overtones, character, culture,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Jews Harp - A Reflection On Turmoil
...I take my pain to where ragers rage and writhe in their self-absorbed gluttony on all-winter days their tea cups are only for them interspersed with silence and solitude the streets are buildings......

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Categories: overtones, inspirational, introspection, life, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Jaw Harp Man
...see my hand it has a gewgaw in and to my lips I kiss the day with her sounds I repeat back in overtones and harmonics of a heart whose breath is wide horizonal, for scope, there is scope and m......

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Categories: overtones, life, muse, music, solitude,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Jews Harp
...if aromatic, can your sound adrift on wings like strings to sing by tongue and some from lighted tops of cloud aloud let fly, let fly o solitary eagle soaring high these aromatic overtones of d......

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Categories: overtones, dedication, deep, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Overtones
...Life has no end goal Savor the moment you're here Or think not exist.......

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Categories: overtones, character, feelings, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member ADORNING FATHER'S DAUGHTER-
...I enjoy women but in a Fatherly Heaven way I Adorn their nurturing they're caring so I say I Adorn a woman the one whom I love for both of God daughters casting spirit encased in vessel......

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Categories: overtones, appreciation, beautiful, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Infinitude
...I, the many a harlot's realm, betrothed to the light, each door a seed yet, eyes ever glossed in overtones of harmonic gaze deep within her strings and enter anew in silence... ... ra......

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Categories: overtones, death, destiny, fate, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Happened On a Misty Morning Collaboration
...Wettened by the mornings dew Closely spaced where rows of roses grew Footprints stained the cobblestone Where my love and I had walked, alone —Charles Messina Roses pink as my love’s lip......

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Categories: overtones, romantic love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Awakening
...Stirrings of pleasure,everywhere... perceptions of imagination outlined,a coloured conformance dissolve overtones into a form of words.......

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Categories: overtones, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Whiz-Bang the Frog
...Whiz-bang the Frog Whiz-bang the frog And Toodles the dragonfly Sit by the pond Watching the caddisflies They sing La Ti Da! They sing Fa La La! And then Wah-Wah Woo! A chorus of Doo ......

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Categories: overtones, insect, song, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don'T Work Too Hard
...Don't Work TOO Hard! The phrase, "Don't work TOO hard!" rolls off the tongue like breathing out into a vacuum 'vampires' dream (that sucks space dry between consumptive hear......

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Categories: overtones, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Allegorical Echoers
...(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots) We may not be deemed apostolic recorders But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of Our life’s sojourn in the sh......

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Categories: overtones, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose
Premium Member Changing Our Attitude
...A foggy morning with dreary overtones Can cause the spirit to spiral downward Eliciting slow-moving, guttural groans A foggy morning with dreary overtones, It makes us feel like decre......

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Categories: overtones, caregiving, character, cheer up,
Form: Triolet

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