Short Backbeat Poems

Time tickling backbeat
Staccato notes warping air
Jazz like loose feathers...

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I think of you. 

	 You’re like a backbeat in my mind.

I wish I could mind

but I don’t.

I’ve long accepted my subservience 
to this 
elusive skein 
of a dream.


Now all I must do 
is 

wait…...

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Golden beams peeking,
songs of blues by the seashore;
Aghast jaws of life 
rebuild an eroded beach;
The solace of the sea stills;

At peace you marvel 
this melody can’t be real;
Nautical backbeat 
a compass for the broken;
Soothing sorrowful band aid;

Lush foam matches drums 
keeping such a sweet shuffle;
Sunshine sings backup 
a gentle nudge on your mood;
Turquoise waters raise a smile....

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In glorious moments
of literary  contemplation where thoughts....placement, 
calculate a position, a mathematical destination 
to religish fragmented light where frolicking shadows birth colors of gold, blue, and orange to drown in a pool of lavender mist 
accompanied by euphonic sounds rising with a backbeat to
roll from the western hills creating a warm fire endlessly burning 
within an inkling of desire...

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