Short Gongs Poems

summertime at noon
church swallowed up in sunlight
the old brass bell gongs...

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dissolving into eternity
sans entity identity
universe vessel
gongs a bell
a wake up call
for God's bliss squall
to renew love's pulsation
that creation feels sensation

11-December-2022...

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A
bell is
a cup upside
down, shaped to resonate
a chime and ring, when hammer strikes
the bell with and makes it ring its key note
with big bells making deep low gongs,
small bells
ping
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blood of fury desecrates

youngsters maimed by household strife

till church gongs ring of mercy

---love offerings pledged


Contest: Part 2 , Fully Booked
War and Peace
For nette onclaud    23 June 2016...

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Lamp
is Bell,
that beams out light,
instead of ring sound gongs.
Inverted  cup  resonators
disgorge light and sound when struck and switched on.
Lamp and bell call to attention:
Hear me!
See!...

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Bells
years past-
from steeples

Revealed 
the times 
with gongs

Mute 
through wars

Loud 
for victory

Soft 
to celebrate 
hearts joined
in marriage

Slow
to honor 
loved ones 
in death

Bells cheered
Bells mourned
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Menaced by a triumphant chanting of lament
Entrancing the soul of Hades’ kin
Missed eruptions of the sensory nerves
Onomatopoeic of hollow gongs 
Resonating, maimed through the indescribable facets of
Your  forgotten youth.


Adjudged 3rd Place in Black Eyed Susan's Acrostic Contest
© 07-31-2012...

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The headline news this morning read
Ben's tolling drones will be shut down
while workers clean the cogs in his head
He might even get turned upside down

Old Ben will be out of ringing commission
for four years there will be peace and quiet
No gongs will be ringing in noisy emission
Ben's being put on a needed silence diet...

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Wake up
Cheer up

Be cool
Stand tall

Delight
Feel light

No grief
No tiff

Stay calm
Don’t harm

Unwind
Be Kind

No fears
No tears
 
Smile sweet
Don’t cheat

Sing songs
Strike gongs

Clap hands
Laugh loud

Love all
Live whole

Placed Nineth

June.15. 2022

A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest...

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Like cloth you wear me
Like a tool you use me
Like termites you chew my days
Like ink you spill me
And write stories
Of love and hate
On your anvil of change
You hammer me
With deafening gongs
Neither do I have minutes
Nor seconds of my own
But only to wait for that hour
When you'll seal me in a box
With one final blow
Only then
Your hands will stop
And I'll forget you
With a dark laughter
In the womb of silence...

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Bells and gongs they chime,
along my hours they rhyme,
pallid face, they a deadpan,
outstretched eyes, that deluge began,
deep buried thoughts, along silent patio,
they climb afar, distant hills brow,
frail hopes, play hide and seek,
false they speak, and all seems bleak,
those beating nerves, immobilized in cold, 
like a dagger dressed, in fresh shed blood,
carried once again, to that perch of cliff,
her minute felicity, gone in a whiff....

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Ding dong
sing along
cherry berry
cheery songs
ping pong
chocolate’s on
let’s have
choco-cherry gongs.

Chocolate covered
cherry bliss
nothing tastes
like this
even snakes
give hiss
choco-cherry
tid bits.

Dropsy flopsy
cherry-popsies
oops stuck
needs mopsy
cherry cheesecake
no bake
saucy drizzles
on plate.

bing bong
supper’s on
dessert’s a song
sing-along
cherry pie
sugar high
tasty delight
what a night!

...

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Nothing is what I feel 
Empty was my world 
I painted a picture, but it was blank 
Blank imaginations, blank feelings
Dark and wild place I was in
No one, nothing nobody ever heard me
Skies were so near, could count the stars 
The moon tried to smile but blood covered it
Anger creped in, frustrations and greed
Tried ease the pain but I eased my self
Empty and Emptier I felt 
Bins couldn't be Emptier 
Gongs couldn't cockles than I was
Evil brought the sunshine but felt NOTHING...

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The candle dance is fascinating with  lighted candles on dishes
held in hands with bodies moving and curving to the musical wishes
Silat is another dance with martial art movements to the beat
of drums and gongs causing the dancer to feel the heat
Then the dance Datun Julud is telling a story as you elegantly glide
The most famous dance of all which is renowned worldwide
is the Lion Dance danced at the time of the Chinese New Year 
bringing good fortune and resistance to evil is perfectly clear...

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