Short Harpsichords Poems

Three harpsichords dance in  
kaleidoscopic sound. 
Our Johann Sebastian
paints colors that abound,
radiantly prancing
in patterns so profound....

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you always had a way with words
like Amsterdam
whose running rhymes
of bicycles and harpsichords
and bridges over canals caused
us both to steer each other's hold
to mouths whose distance
was decreasing, 
slowly through museum pieces
though I always hoped to linger
nestled inside yours...

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Damp bed in the sky,
mourning doves are weeping
for the half-awake are
fully sleeping.

Clouds sink,
misty-eyed they trace their own puddles.
A once barking dog
falls silent
forever.

The walker is a boogie-woogie man
his hips rattle like harpsichords'
and why should they not?

Question Marks are necessary
too often
he thought,
as he made his way out
of a thicket
of stale pajamas....

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