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Polyrhythms Poems - Poems about Polyrhythms


Premium Member The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The Becoming
...VI. We are all metric modulations of our former selves—changing time signatures mid-measure, learning to count in odd meters when life refuses to conform to 4/4 expectations fi......

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Categories: polyrhythms, extended metaphor, fate, identity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck World
...I. In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll— left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice between being and non-being......

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Categories: polyrhythms, childhood, identity, introspection, loss,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium Member The Pied Piperess
...Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet Once upon a time, there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat Beknownst to all......

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Categories: polyrhythms, evil, parody,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Dance
...DANCE Daily he watched her a vigil of desire masked by the suit, by the business demeanor of the corporate nineties, a faint tambourine tingling the spine, kindling a rhythm at the edge of ......

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Categories: polyrhythms, love, music,
Form: Free verse
A Missed Poem
...I meant to tell about my travelling aboard. Of my visit to West Africa For genealogy purpose, I wanted to see my great grandfather homeland. He was from Guinea. He loved dance and drumming. I submit......

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Categories: polyrhythms, africa, character, deep, family,
Form: Verse




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