Short Drum Roll Poems

rainy gray day
lightning strikes the ground...
drum roll

6/10/12...

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Autumn's orchestra
Mounting clouds thunder drum roll
Eerie woodwinds blow...

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thunderous drum roll
lightning cymbals vibrating
black band of clouds sing...

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If someone stutters that you meet
Just think of it like it's a treat
You might extol 
It's a drum roll
Keeping you on the edge of your seat!...

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a woodpecker drums
     from his perch on the high pole---

       cracks in the silence
          of a sunny afternoon
              echoes through a neighborhood...

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Heart beat, drum roll, breath flow, bliss throb, repeats
Echoes resound
Amplified
Within
Mind
~
Soul
Yearning
To connect
Self with spirit
Cajoles ego to shift into silence

16-June-2021...

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What is the baseline 
  of your life?

How deep is the chord structure 
  of your meaning?

What is that riff that no raff 
  can destroy?

How long is your drum roll 
 —at the end?

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)...

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~ Dance the Day Away ~

  Wake up to a waltz
    Boogie out of bed

  Calypso-on your clothes
    Drum-roll downstairs

  Carumba 'round the kitchen
    Bunny-hop to breakfast

  Limbo into lunch
    Cha-cha as you chew

  ~ Mamba as you munch...

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Oh April
I hear you tapping
Tapping on sweet Spring’s back door
Running through the streets after dark
Undisciplined, unchaperoned
Chattering in a fledgling nest
Peeking from behind softened soil
Basking in a sunrise drum roll
I hear nature whisper
OH! APRIL
...

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Ancient river, passing song
always here forever gone
rippled by flirtatious winds
disappearing round its bends.

Crooked fingers drawing lines
tributaries, twisted tines
counting coup on drum roll stones
ancient rivers heading home.

John G. Lawless
©7/6/2022...

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because you need it
watch the shares drop
Owners of iphone
-Prince Andrew-
-Donald Trump-
-Boris Johnston-
-Adolph Hitler-okay i made this one up but you know he would have
maybe they have made one that stops you sweating
brrrrrmmmm  cchhhhhhhhhhhh ( a drum roll)...

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Hence, forth I walk.
Too Summer I talk
When I leap, Jump I find.
I am the intellectual suffering voices.
When the voices rise.
I find the drastic Dragon.
Drum-roll.
I excavate terminologies.
Hence I colour the colour-book.
So forth
To remove the shadows
Of the voices, which I brask....

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goes out to.....drum roll
returning champion
Scotland
it was close this year
So close virus
so close
but an arms length hug away
awaits for a chance
--------------a hope
--------------another day
_________an unmasked smile
---------------a kiss
---------------awhileing poet's
with a word that i made...

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she walks in quietly
smiling like a child
drum roll on the
tin roof
i love her
i am welcoming
she is kind
the dry earth dancing
her touch of love
tears of joy
i am free now like
a butterfly float
i open my mouth
to her generosity
she covers me with
wet kisses hiding 
my tears in her lap
i walk in the street
of bliss 
orchestra of the 
wind...

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Raining metallic drops
Pounding on my head,
A drum roll...

Raining metallic drops
Slide along my hair,
A violin serenade..

Raining metallic drops
Bouncing from my eyelashes,
A piano symphony..

Raining metallic drops
Makes mascara disappear,
The audience applauses..

Raining metallic drops,
I'll be thinking of you
Next time black clouds spit....

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White flock degrades to dishcloth grey
as clouds now conjure up a curse.
A faint flicker and flash from far off sky
as the blaze cleaves the grey beyond.
Bright light from high voltage aloft
Creating ozone chaos show.
Now a rumble, a slow drum roll,
Percussion echoes in the hills
and then sets off going down the dale.
Now drifts away the dishcloth grey. 

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radiating colors
paradise echoing 
softly touched
innermost desire
deep within
beating on
the walls
of the heart

coursing through
blood red
feelings for
one rose
handing you
an emotion
all that i am
speaking volumes
within blossoms

your fingers
upon the pulse
beating heart plays
one tune
only you
in a drum roll
the door opens
as you enter
deep chambers
sparking new beginnings
a beautiful start...

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The wind rustled through the trees
forming a whispering melody 
the higher pitches made a whistling sound
while the lower pitches were soft moans
as the wind intensified and released
in harmony a song was created that
only nature understood
it continued with a definite rhythm
now accompanied by a drum roll 
as hands of  thunder joined in
they both took a deep breath
started their harmony 
enjoying a night serenade....

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I heard the steady cadence
The drum roll in the street
A thousand tramping soldiers 
Tasting of defeat.
The sound of occupation
I thought it could not be,
A flag so full of justice
Would always flutter free.
I had dreamed a thousand dreams
And cast them to the wind
But often had forgotten
Even rods of steel will bend.
Raucous laughter melted
In the wake of dust and steam
Then suddenly awakened
I found it all a dream....

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It was open mic nite
or maybe ladies night
no matter, wasn’t my scene
so I ordered a beer and took
my seat

The show was amatuer night
for sure
everyone laughed
drum roll
curtains

left my glass with the waitress
and my tip
caught a guy out in the front lot
hocking CD’s at ten bucks a pop

says hes a musician, I should hear his stuff
its gangster rap
ten spot later
blazed down the road

not my scene
but I take
my seat...

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A distant mumble, a muffled drum roll. 
Seconds on, come the serious decibels. 
Heavy rumbling with sharp percussions. 
Squeal of the steel; wheel scraping on the rail. 
Metal clatter loudens then dies to silence.
Spent fares alight and new fares climb aboard. 

Ting ting. The cream and green is off again, 
Above it, brief flashes of lightning blue 
As straying volts are lost to salty air. 
Soon far off the rumbling fading away. 
...

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You don't have to be blonde to play this game
shamefully displayed in acting so vain
Barbie and Ken sitting high on their pedastal
adventurous comments on lifes megaphone
meglomaniac's fallen star status
their image of worth has somehow entrapped us
sad sorry game of walking advertisement
their ruse is the same,only fodder amusement

Drum roll for the dumb role,as they slide down that pole
you don't have to be blonde,to carry on as a fool.........

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The night gives a drum roll...
I know it's coming...
My heart skips a beat...
The girl keeps on drumming

She teases my soul....
Like she's having fun
She do me with love...
The way I love being done

When there's rain in my eyes...
She showers it with kisses...
She aims to please...
My girl never misses...

It's funny how fast,
She puts my blues on the run...
She do me with love!
The way I love being done!!

By Chuck Melugin
Copyright
My Carol Lee...

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