Short Etude Poems

just composing
thoughts Berlioz
my favorite but
since my wife
is sleeping i can't
bang away an etude
on our piano

so i will
turn up
the volumn
of my finger
tips that tap
morse code
supposing

that you
caught that
as if a coon
dog barking
that i've
treed you but
won't let you

down...

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Listen to poem:

~~~~T H E   W I T C H ' S   H E A D   N E B U L A E~~~~~
The Canadien Seal Hunt by The Humane Society


Warmingly, a seal

pup, heedlessly, greets strangers

who clubbed it to death.


Date: 08/30/2019
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***Entitled suggested background music for reading...

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Savouring Solitude

So savouring solitude soothes one’s soul
Subjectively silencing self-control
Supplantingly supplement’s skewed etude
Encompassing—entire—every tableau 
Replenishing revalue rue’s the day
In wilderness winnowing’s watered way
Such savouring...solitude soothes one’s soul. 


04.08.2021©deborah burch
 


Alliteration...

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Life in Indigo Mood

The gray cat’s a drowsy pet, 
during days of blue violet.

Noon sun rays fill beige rooms, 
hastening A-bomb dooms.

Patent leather rules on Sundays.
Clothes are crucified on Mondays.

Soap operas, ice water and fans
Lux for lovely, soft, clean hands

Golden era times etude 
Song of life in indigo mood.

10/25/15
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Oh those pizzicato drops
Play a frantic melody
Tour the scale from high to low
Bravo! from the sleepy heads below


The maestro empties out the clouds
And then so quickly steals away
But he'll be back to play again
So lovely to have my roof of tin.....



An etude is a  musical piece, usually very difficult, that is especially written
to help develop musical techniques......

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For M.



Nothing in life repeats itself
Even when it seems to repeat
It's never the same
Every incoming moment 
Every small piece of space
Brings with it another sign of novelty

And you are not even you
A little later on
And I'm not me 
When I finish this word

Each instant ages instantly 
And turns gray like every man
Bringing another world
Only the fact that I love you
Never changes...

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The soul is here for its own joy. 
It floats somewhere behind my eyes.
Existing in breath and relationships 
It responds to and is created by
A Chopin Etude, Round Midnight, a fralich, 
Starry Night, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Guernica,
A pas de deux, a tap dance, Tango,
War, HaShoah, Covid,
The look in a dog's eyes,
Ruby Bridges, Nelson Mendela, grandchildren,
A partner’s embrace, 
Love, hate, acceptance, 
Old age, infirmity, and the end....

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