Phrasing Poems | Examples

Aether Defends

Anticipation ends
as creation begins
Before chasing the words 
you must first know the wind
Direction predestined
on zephyrs ordained
Each gust but a phrasing
of verse unproclaimed

A breeze or a tempest
in a cyclone of hail
In sunshine or clouded
they come to regale
Those moments that matter
that time would suspend
Once spoken eternal
— and Aether defends

(Dreamsleep: July, 2025)

Goliath's Stone

Downwind
of my perception
Upwind
before the fall
Immune
in my protection 
From dullards 
at the mall

The past
remains in focus
The future
but a myth
My words
fall out of judgment
Each phrasing
to enrich

To read 
with understanding
To hear
beyond the din
To feel
beyond the senses
To love
beyond the rim

Released 
without containment
On wings
not leased or loaned
Into
the inner sanctums
With time
— Goliath’s stone

(The New Room: June, 2025)

SIGNIFICANCE

an
  instinctive
       voice
of
   formative
         lyricism
with
warmth
      &colour

extensive
  reflective
      phrasing
exemplified
with
wistful
  nostalgia

blissful
   echoes
of
introspection
in
   waves
      of 
        comptemplation

Lines That Entangle

The curse of the writer
woo’s angels and devils
Chasing the daylight
 far into the night

Each phrasing an omen
of hope or foreboding
With lines that entangle
— in lost delight

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025)

Prisoner of Poetry - Mar 22

My bars the words, the prison guard my verse,
Rattling the staves of this poetic cell,
I struggle vainly, locked up in this jail. 
Yea, thus is my predicament, my curse.

Oh, how jealously, you smirking blank verse,
I look upon what freedom guides your quill;
For formal phrasing does of me compel
Stubborn structures—the styles which I rehearse. 

But, boldy bumbling, art is now arising!
Walls becoming my score, and tallies tones, ?Confined to meter, bound by rigid rhyme, 
I yet find measures full of surprising 
Motifs. The modern poet at sonnets groans,
But I, I do believe they’re quite sublime.

Dig What I Say

Say, dig what I say
Talkin’ bout a new jazz vibe/
Man, move over/
the Jazz Cookers are hittin’ their stride in the groove to stay alive/
Eddie Henderson/
Cecil McBee/
George Cables,Billy Hart
and Billy Harper/
swingin’ harder jazz be flying/
downbeat, upbeat, man, count It off/
their soul auras are in the jazz notes they play/
David Weiss and Donald Harrison are fryin’ their amps/
burnin’ the house down/
with the jazz club scene in decline/
and record labels cuttin’ back on jazz/
the jazz Cookers have to stay alive and relevant in a jazz-changing world/
so dig, be cool struttin’ as Sonny Clark would say/
you might not always get a payday but you love to play/
the Cookers boss horns are  on fire/
hip tones blowin' from the stage/bro, this is the jazz life you chose and after a gig, you might be all alone/
so be in the moment and improvise on your jazz note phrasing/
you’ll find the rhythm and meaning knowing you can play the same note gig after gig night after night/
but different every time/
are you hip to the Cookers?/
they will have you finger poppin’ and  blowin' your mind/
wahoo that’s a whole lotta jazz

Sad Violin Tunes, O Heart of mine

Compositions in G minor softly weep, 
In somber tones where shadows often creep. 
O heart of mine, in sorrow's time, 
The violin, with range both vast and wide, 
Evokes emotions deep, where sorrows hide. 

From haunting beauty to a grief profound, 
Its notes sustain, with vibrato’s rich sound. 
O heart of mine, why do you sigh? 
An instrument for feelings deep and grand, 
It speaks of heartache with a trembling hand. 

A skilled performer brings the soul to light, 
Infusing music with emotions tight. 
O heart of mine, why do you cry? 
Their technique crafts a story, pure and true, 
Where every note holds meaning, old and new. 

With careful phrasing, dynamics in play, 
The violin can steal your breath away. 
O heart of mine, feel the refrain, 
Its voice, a mirror to the heart's own cry, 
Creating worlds where deepest feelings lie.

-CHORALISTA-

polyphonic
   in voice
           &sound
homphony
    phrasing
     in
          simultaneous
rhythms
of
   orchestration

Rate Calulation

Chagisite or helium3
mined for the future of
the World. Poor people
grunted hearing the report
while the wealthy
smiled and had dreams of
extraction
and manufacturing
"his smile was so wide
it made a noise"
2 protons and one neutron.
asphyxiant potental in the energy field
radioactive isotope is ideal fuel for the
operation of a fusion reactor
fusing helium-3 with deuterium.

"burst of energy
to power reactors
reactors to move and create energy!"
Houtermans and Rutherford
Sceince of creation
dynamics, phrasing and articulation
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Friends Sum Words

phrasing can...
free
excess words...

from a
mental reflection...
that frames

a summation of...
thoughts wrt
all senses at once...


stan sand

Sensitivity

SENSITIVITY
a
 universe
of rhythms
encourage
urgency
to revelation
in
a sequence

a substitute
for
emotion
balanced
&self-contained
  versatility

action
without
  disruption
meditation
shaped
  by
   phrasing
modest
utility
 unguarded
& fruitful

This One's For You

I wrote a song for someone
She knows by name just who
It's not a dedication
Not this, this one's for you 

It took some time to finish
But that's only because
If you rush you can dimish
The meaning, so you just pause

When you reach that dreaded moment
Every artist does despise
Looking at a blank slate
Staring back with blanker eyes 

There are no words to sing to
No lyrics to peruse
It's only instrumental
But still my thoughts infuse

And fill each note and phrasing
Nothing there by chance
In quiet contemplation
I composed for you this dance

I hope you'll always like it
And listen now and then
Remembering I loved you
Each time it's played again

Kitchen

It is warm for these summer golden days.
Fruit is plentiful, before it decays.
Home fruit canning in the kitchen a blaze.

Mason jars and lids are sterilizing,
Pears, peaches, and apple organizing.
Cooking the fruit down, straining, and sizing.

The scrumptious smells that reach out amazing;
The flowing heating steam ever raising.
Appetizing canning labels phrasing.

Clean and back in their places and no trace,
Of utensils, lids and pots in their space.
A smile of finish in the kitchen's grace.

Music

Mystical labyrinth of twisting harmonic warnings
Gazing into infinity’s composing handiwork –
 Moonbeams in silver sung sonatas –
  Ivory hued cantatas resolved from heart pacing crescendos
Spring’s soothing birdcalls after tympanic thunder.

Measured tempos of rhythms search for their time signature
 As aching melodies in moveable feasts of swans
  Search for resolutions in atonal firebird tango ballads
Through classical dusty suites of western legends
 Not losing pitch or tripping over downbeats.

Too many notes squeeze into four square spaces
 When magic flutes songs soar over seraglio dreams
Imperial marches set imprisoned phrasing free with fanfares
 And close encounters of key notes discard dissonance
  Seeking rhapsody in hues of blue.

Plaintive and joyful - hopeful and merciful -
 Healing rhythms inspired from the eternal melody,
  A lost chord to haunt then heal the midnight heart
All arranged in one accord from the Master’s apprentices
To rest in finality of one trailing echo of waltzing river.

Valentine

My thoughts arrive in short, staccato bursts;
the long lines never seem to want to flow.
Macabre at best, generally, worse;
uncertain, the direction they will go.

Romantic phrasing seems a foreign tongue;
a lilting verse on love just comes out forced.
Yet beetles drawn to steaming piles of dung,
as love language, are largely not endorsed.

On this, Hallmark’s most halcyon of days,
pray do not be incensed, thy count’nance marred,
if, in attempts to woo with lofty praise,
I do compare thy scent to fragrant nard. 

Penned valentines, a Sisyphean feat,
but you’re my rock, and I, your paraclete.

—————

for the Valentine Poetry Contest
sponsored by Mystic Rose Rose
written on 01/13/23

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