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Nailed to the Corner

...Chromatic
Voglio chetu sia mio
Ibi locutus sum
J 'espere que je ne le
regretterai pas
Na ia jeg takkle meg
selv
Daar is geen skeuring 
tussen jou en my nie
Es un honored haberna 
sentido as...

Categories: scherzo, appreciation, beautiful, betrayal, business,
Form: Bio

Still Life Instrumental

...Allegro
Crystal decanter, wine in a glass. 
Tabletop woodwinds court candlestick brass.
Fine sterling service, stems in a vase.
High-tone enamel meets low double bass.
Pale yellow roses, peaches...

Categories: scherzo, art, music,
Form: Lyric

The Child Pianist

...I am attracted by
Virtuous notes
A capable sound
From a Steinway & Sons grand piano

A mighty orchestra
Unknown melodies
A child prodigy at the keyboard
A Gift of Peace

The hammer that str...

Categories: scherzo, beauty, emotions, music, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Rhapsody

...Heaven’s chill clouds hide blazing stellar light.
Winter wet with fresh white flakes falls tonight.
A morose man maunders at his baby grand, 
Keys awaiting the touch of bony hands.

A sunlit mel...

Categories: scherzo, grief, loss, love, music,
Form: Free verse

The Rat Race

...trying to keep
an adagio beat
with my heart
and my feet

but modern day
technology has
me skitzo in a
scherzo only

wanting to
share my
thematic
views with

you and my
attitude has
b...

Categories: scherzo, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Scherzo

...When I see her,
My heart is a symphony
Playing a scherzo 
For her and for her alone.
Ah my love, she has the tools
To pick the lock of the chains
That I had placed around my heart....

Categories: scherzo, love, music,
Form: Free verse

Music of the Night

...
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash 
       a Compositio...

Categories: scherzo, desire, music, night, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Jailbirds

...here
are those
whose bones inhabit clothes
and muscles feed on flesh
except for mine —

here in concrete and florescent light
between closing walls and slamming locks
where the doors bear nam...

Categories: scherzo, prison,
Form: Free verse

Cogwheel Ballet

...Cogwheel Ballet
            by Odin Roark

Hot
Humid
New York summer
Industrial commerce 24/7

Textile scents of humid wool
Acerbic edge of chemical dyes
Permeating wood and air
Thick oily lubricants...

Categories: scherzo, creation,
Form: Free verse

Rain Falling In October

...It's so mild in the quite suburbs
with rain falling in October,
and unable to sleep, I face 
insomnia for certain;
rain, keep on falling and let me hear
that steady, pelting sound on
the closed...

Categories: scherzo, faith, friendship, hope, inspirational,
Form: Narrative

A Bluish Shine

...Waterfall gushing
on moss-covered rocks, breaking
up a bluish shine;
tree dangling from wet boulder
crushes the ginger,
to deplete it of its light...
Waterfall playing
a scherzo, ever grant me...

Categories: scherzo, nature, peace, places, sea,
Form: Haiku

Promslinger

...Proms linger in promised rings.
I gave you love in a band and
On your hand my love sings.On
Forever a song in my heart for you.
In a dress to the floor, red ribbons too.
I remember you.....
I r...

Categories: scherzo, lost love, love, musiclove,
Form: Rhyme

Scherzo

...The music laughs 
piano thoughts
the tiny bird alive you caught
skitters wild across the keys
I hide within your satin sleeves
crepe and crinkled fragile soul
crescendoes gather and enfold
mes...

Categories: scherzo, music,
Form: Couplet