Short Conducting Poems

Seashell Symphony,
On ear, rhapsody playing.
Ocean Conducting!


Dedicated to Raul...you're a very good teacher...tell me what you think?...

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The maestro conducting the bands
Could get none to follow commands.
Though skilled and respected,
Sadly, he'd neglected
That morning to put on his pants.

2.7.20
For Tania Kitchin's Limerick contest
Confirmed syllable count 8-8-6-6-8...

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The early spring rain pounds the earth
washing sleep from the eye of dawn
conducting percussive rebirth.
The early spring rain pounds the earth
bringing the pattering of mirth
as awakened the violets yawn.
The early spring rain pounds the earth
washing sleep from the eye of dawn....

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seagulls looked for garbled shreds,
scouring up after stray throngs
signs creak to swing of ocean
conducting to the depressed pranksters.

Written: March 6, 2022

Lind30nr Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke

Lind30 form: 7-7-7-9
HMC.COM...

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Lor was conducting a Christmas carol
While standing on a high stool in our hall
Swaying hands with her baton 
Faced front, bit sideways and soon
Stool swung for her slow exhibition-fall



Nov. 18, 2022   2.27pm


Howmanysyllables.com
10-10-7-7-10
34 words
44 syllables
200 characters...

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Every job has special words
  You don't know them, you're a nerd
To get ahead you walk the walk
  You'd also better talk the talk

Gathered 'round the water cooler
  Manager so hip, I couldn't fool her
This job's a bit more than what I'd bargained for
  ~ An octogenarian boss conducting jargon wars...

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This is a moment,
when words between us
are stray bricks on a smooth road.

Pointless, and difficult to speak,
when the tongue is kissing,
hands conducting
last chords of a rapturous aria.

An audience of heartbeats
listens as silence drops.

Skin tracing fingers
become curtain calls,
that echo on into the night....

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Your acquisition congest the entire space
in the lane of such prosperity, alone you race
every powerful influence has your distinct trace
with such a charisma conducting so much grace.
Affluence alone cannot repel every calamity
it makes an empty mind close to insanity.
Exclude the great provider, all becomes vanity.
...

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As it rains down and conducting a very  small sound.
Also cleansing off what ever it come’s to land apoun .
As it pours down apoun the city rinseing nothing but the dirty sinning.
 As all comes clean life begins to seem like at dream.
With no disperse in my line of life from  now  till my ending day.
I come to pray to the man above  don’t stop the the rain drops...

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It has been a long time since
I have been away from you
and tonight, I miss your soft-glowing
presence, and the serenading shadows 
conducting the silky symphony of
your peeling clothes. I miss
your reassuring steps, as you
approach the bed, and the gentle sagging
of the mattress as you press down
to bend over to kiss my cheek
as I fall into a blissful sleep....

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   Only ten shopping days ‘til the locusts arrive
      What on earth should I buy them

   I’ve scoured the stores, and what’s more
      Amazon, Tik-Tok and E-bay

   But ‘gifts for locusts’ brings up very few items
      so I’m conducting a mini-plebiscitum  

   Asking cockroaches, spiders and scorpions
      if I should text ‘em or a love poem write ‘em
...

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Clocks



hearts pounding madly

synchronized hands
 
conducting the measures of time

maestros attempting control

of the endless concerto


© Sandra M. Haight 2015 
   All Rights Reserved


~8th Place~
Contest: Simply This: Top Ten Tanka
Modern Tanka – Syllables 5, 4, 8, 7, 7
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Judged: 03/14/2015




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I am my Pain
my Pain is me
Navigator teaching
the Sage in me.

A Prophet’s mind
undoing old things
unmasking the past
gifts He brings.

Seer in the moments
by my side
Spirit my Shadow
Spectre my Guide.

Maestro of life
conducting the way
show me lessons
to learn today.

Give me ways
in which to grow
open wide portals
so I may know.


(click on the pic to buy my poetry book!)...

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The storm of last night brought cool air
Tree frogs have much news now to share
Perfect weather for their rainwear
Clouds everywhere, clouds everywhere

Fog in the hollow tops the creek
This gift of gray clouds' cool not bleak 
Sheer shawl fog adds its mystique
Veils of Batik, veils of Batik

The roosters in the hollow sing
Chorus of anthemns loudly ring
Air holds song accelerating
God conducting, God conducting ...

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In babyhood, baby girls play with dolls				
                                        it's the force of the Nature 				
                                   taught to make those by clothes				
				
                           By conducting marriage of bride and bride groom				
                               follows social rituals innocently, unknowingly				
                                            which predicts their future...

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The storm of last night brought cool air
Tree frogs have much news now to share
Perfect weather for their rainwear
Clouds everywhere, clouds everywhere

Fog in the hollow tops the creek
This gift of gray clouds' cool not bleak 
Sheer shawl fog adds its mystique
Veils of Batik, veils of Batik

The roosters in the hollow sing
Chorus of anthems loudly ring
Air holds song accelerating
God conducting, God conducting ...

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Long nights
transcribe me into a clacking music.

Harpsichord bones and broken keys,
nailed to an out of time tune.

A somnambulant self-winding
pipe-organ, whistles
as it pushes moments around
as if time could be saved
for later use.

A mind-locked keyboard
is stuck in the middle
of a revolving thought.

I lay down in the back row
of a horn belching bedlam;

wave weary hands at the ceiling
conducting curse words
in the dark....

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A masterful dilemma;
Did I mention;
The contention;
Dead overdressed pallbearers;
6 figures;
Un moving vigour;
Did I mention;
Unloved catfished;
Make a wish;
Counterfit;
The dead bury the dead;
Harness harvesting bread;
Only six guest witness;
Last super calls;
Dinner is now served;
Where is the host;
Conducting a roast?
This contention a...
Masterful dilemma;


6/20/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020...

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On the 
Mussetle Train
I go

Going 
s l o w l y. . . going
nowhere

Where can
I take this train,
pray tell?

Prayers
are needed for
this trip!

Tripping
on words, I run
off course

Of course,
I can get back
on track

But tracks
for this train are
not wide

Good width
would help me move
better

The best
I can do is
stop now!


for the Mussetle Train - Poetry Contest
Sorry for the train wreck, Richard!!...

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poetry
excellent, delightful
reading, publishing, editing
pantoum, diamante, sonnet, verse 
writing, posting, delivering
long, short
essay

art
beautiful, amazing
drawing, painting, sketching
origami, sculpture, portrait, mural
sewing, carving, waving
creative, unique 
 craft

music
fast, slow
singing, playing, humming
hip-hop, country, orchestra, symphony
conducting, interpreting, dancing
sad, happy
drama



 
Jan. 16,2023   9.10pm...

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Cypress haven
Out echoes of the hollow
Creatures of the night
Hoot of Great Horned Owl

Cheeps and chirps shadowed
Seem to follow
Maybe, saw grass yips
Puppies upon the prowl

Sunken moss covered fallen
Echoes reaching further out of hollow
Black cubs fuzzy
First words loud into growl

Or whiny songs
Crying baby swallow
Bullfrog warts
Balloon chin bellows

Maestro amidst the moonlight
Conducting within the wallow
Woodland tenant choirs
As Mother Nature echoes through the hollow...

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T- Terrorists'
  
A- Advance

L- Leaves
 
I- Impenetrable 
 
B- Blackness, thus 

A- Accelerating 
 
N- Nihilism!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      20 August 2021
-
*The Taliban are "intensifying the hunt-down" of individuals who worked with the Afghan government and its allied forces, conducting "targeted door-to-door visits" and arresting or threatening family members of "target individuals" unless they surrender, according to a confidential UN document....

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They wore their Kentucky Derby headdress hats into the church.
The minister knew that no one would be seeing him that day.
He liked conducting a sermon the weekend of the Derby.
He did not have to comb his hair or brush his teeth.

Wise people sequestered behind the hats stopped struggling to see.
Resigning themselves to the fact that it was a hopeless quest.
Aha! They all saw the disheveled reverend on their way out.
Commenting later at Sunday dinner that his hair stuck straight up....

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Run from reality
Run from who you are
In a world of pixelated
Pleasure.

Seek your true self
In a sea of real faces
Peering back at you
Through the screen

 Sit mindless
Conducting short conversations
With secret identities
Alone  in your room

Leave the dishes undone
Don’t miss the fun
Your children call to you
Ignore it.

Bathe in self-misery 
And never go outside.
It’s all inside
Just beyond reach.

Live with your thoughts
And face it again.
When you turn it off....

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