Short Overture Poems

Overture of lies:
Don’t take it literally
Monotheism...

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gilded horizon
overture of a new day
the sun awakens...

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Two hearts beating time
Epiphany symphony
Encore Déjà vu...

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Nature’s symphony
A nocturnal overture
Night: frogs and crickets...

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Nature’s great concert:
a nocturnal overture…
night…frogs…and crickets....

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florid pastels
blazoned across twilight sky
— Spring’s overture

3/14/2018...

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Blazing orange sun
Sings sky and ocean duet.
Foaming finale.


Inspired by Raul's Seascapes...

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            slowly your soul
  opens into petals when I touch you
          just like a red rose...

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Stillness sends silent warning
Then something stirs
Overture of wind builds
Rain crescendo follows
Mayhem ensues
...

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Samuel Osmond Barber
as a youngster made a stir
When he wrote an early overture
'School for Scandal' it ws so mature...

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night sounds
surreal as dreams
crickets harmonica
owls overture to natures pets
singing

Johnny Sumler
Melody of Cinquain...

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symphonic sunrise~
                                     overture in harmony~
                                        melodic silence...

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Tides enfold first light,
Golden hues seep through briny mist,
Daybreak murmurs rest,
Ebb and flow dance quietly,
Dawn's tender overture sung....

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Seventy-six 'bones more than a band needs
Splendid marching overture
For Willson's Music Man 

written October 24, 2021...

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Dancing In The Rain

The poetess’s dance
in the rain lightens my heart
I hear her footsteps
echoing overture words
proposing matrimony....

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tropical retreat
                                       bestowed by clouds overture
                                                somber islanders...

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On an odyssey trek,
overjoyed to find Zen,
oasis, green and lush,
overture of bird songs,
opalescent calm hues,
ornamental flowers,
otherworldly magic....

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Melancholy melody of mania and madness.
Ceaseless Swan song a symphony of sadness.
Counter to composure comes cacophony of chorus.
Oscillating operatic overture of Opus.
...

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Falling From Window Sill

Fire at Will who was an imbecile;
Tell us about overture fitting bill;
Music moron,
Soon was gone;
Trump broke neck falling from window sill.

Jim Horn...

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Characteristics of Caricature

Never were quite certain or ever sure,
What became Characteristics of Caricature;
Not any joking;
Very provoking;
While we had to endure the overture.

Jim Horn...

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This is MY 1812 Overture, count em 1812 lims
Stop me when you've had enough, I'm filled to the brim
Didn't plan this stuff
Flows out my butt
Tried plugging it, blasted out clear up to my chin...

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my
    heart
      is stirring,
the vision 
      of you
awakens
      everthing
          within:
love
is bursting
          forth,
passion
is parsed
by
desire

inspired by clip of Rossini's overture...

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Listen to poem:

grand maestro performs
summer's overture in full…
mauve aromatics



AP: Honorable Mention 2020, Front Page Pick 2020

Submitted on July 9, 2019 for contest HAIKU-HUE sponsored by KIM RODRIGUES  -  RANKED 1ST...

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Written in ABC 

Another butterfly, colors dappled, enters, flying gracefully heavenward.  I just kneel,
looking, mesmerized.  Natures overture plays quietly. Restless, suddenly thrusting upward,
variegated wings, exiting, youthfully zoom....

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THE SEASONS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

wintertime,
springtime,
summertime,
autumntime,
chilly, frosty, snowy wintertime an overture to springtime life, which
colours summertime, who in turn prepares autumntime for its fruits
...

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