Short Percussion Poems

Rhyme and rhythm sing
Past poetic percussion
Ever beating Time...

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Resonates with me
    the percussion of your moans
       in belly dancing...

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Damp percussion rolls
Pines dressed in blankets of mist
Destructive dreams fuse...

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percussion dreams
echo on fourth of july
‘Nam turns red tonight




for Deb's contest...

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Thoughts pink with suspicion 
Hearts skipping beats like a percussion
The time stopped, lost in contemplation
Confusion, convention, condensation.  ...

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Padua, Italy
product was invented.
pressing black or white key
produce vibration of
percussion of string sounds
part keyboard family.
play soft and loud noises.

9/14/2023...

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If words were music
I could be a Grand Master
A Concert Pianist
A member of an orchestra
A Cello-ist
A Triangle-ist
A Percussion-ist
Waiting
To insert
A clash of syllables...

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The dull clack of flip-flop slaps,
describes the taste of my water--
The smell of unscented candles,
like last night's forgotten dream--

Never cease my heart's percussion.


May 6, 2016...

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She speaks
Music to my ears
Whispered sounds of gentle love
Existing
For the pleasure of two lovers
As hearts beat percussion, too
For love




Cameo syllable count is 2,5,7,3,8,7,2, unrhymed...

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Polka-dot percussion points,
through a dusk cloud-less, and roof-less,
where the good ol' pale astral plane chills.
There's an entrance, build.
The social agglomerate
shrieks for more, in a festive way....

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My dog is a teen drank with;
air-filled verbal diarrhea
percussion tongue and lips
staggering chaser 
fierce and marking eyes
flowing river of saliva 
cocked arms for attack
cowardly legs for exit
This is this dog I love so much...

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Soft piccolo chirps,
Lovely flutes hoot in the trees;
Cricket violins.
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Cricket violins,
The field oboes howl with grace;
Under soft moonlight. 
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Under soft moonlight,
Percussion hooves beat the woods;
Symphonic nightfall....

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RESPLENDENT PERCUSSION 



ON WET DAMP FEET 



TAMPER THE DRUM 



A SINGLE CONCEIT 



WISE OWL 
  


DARKER  TREE 



SHADOWS GROW 



WHITE MOON 



POND RISES IN THE DISTANCE UPON EYES 



AS WIND ACROSS THE FIELD SHIVERS ME 



COMPLETE SORROW...

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Having fissioned the mind 
To intercede the importunate
And petitioned wisdom inside 
Idle and dissipated 
As tremendous illusions 
pervades the soul
The unsurpassed revolt of 
capitulated distortions 
A percussion of thoughts
That solicits affectations of such...

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The heart of this man
Has fallen into another’s hands
As it beats incessantly
For the safe, warming touch.
It beats strongly
In tune with the 
Pulsating beat of 
The other’s undying heart
Welcoming a joined
Melody in unison
As the tempestuous percussion
Plays on....

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The early Spring rain
pounded the crusty sleepers 
from the All Seeing Eye of Dawn.
Like a conductor raising percussion instruments;
the rain song joined the cacophony of wind
and the crackling sound of Spring ice 
sprung from it's earthen entrapment
rising mist like toward the heavens....

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A weakened mind, when stilled the heart
A lifeless mass, not yet to start
To one day beat, a pounding drum
For victor’s dance, with love it’s won

Resounding percussion left to hear
Upon an arrival of love, sincere
T’is then is when my heart shall beat
As heart takes life, it’s then complete...

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Silence!
                My now untamed heart
       beats strongly for nights with you.
                       Bear with me,
         the silence contributes to love
           as we can hear both hearts
                             as one.



Cameo syllable count is 2,5,7,3,8,7,2, unrhymed...

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Little Pigeon River
	
	
	Little Pigeon River’s 
	water lullaby, 
	the flow’s soft percussion 
	against mossy green 
	rounded river rocks,
	multi-layered, 
	contrapuntal,
	a faint hiss,
	tiny scrapings 
	as small stones 
	are settled into place 
	by the cold current,
	my eyes heavy, 
	sleep waiting nearby....

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A weakened mind, when stilled the heart

A lifeless mass, not yet to start

To one day beat, a pounding drum

For victor’s dance, with love it’s won



Resounding percussion left to hear

Upon an arrival of love, sincere

T’is then is when my heart shall beat

As heart takes life, it’s then complete...

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You are the pound of a drum, percussion inside of my head.
You are my cold, hardened pillow made of bricks; you are red.
You ruin me and I hate you. You are my cracking skull--
a build-up of bursting pressure. You are my gray, blurry
vision--you are my blindness. You are my undying nausea; you
make me so terribly sick....

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The river, in her generous curves, shines blue amid the leafy green. She brings the sound of frolicking water to the percussion of the tree canopy. In this way she invites the soul to dance even when we sit absolutely still.

sometimes a river
encompasses all the world
as the sun goes down
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holding me between its knees
not willing to let me go
it tells me I have to have more
pushing the cup close
between my lips to my teeth
I cannot but swallow
sipping gulping taking it in
I hear the sound of
my teeth on the rim of the cup
the staccato of Time
percussion like in a jazz concert 
arranged by my karma
the track is entitled Live Now!...

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The Love Race


A place
Where all my cares
Seem to fly out the door  
Because I can raise my voice there
My grace.

In praise
Voices blend in
Like a choral dance
Upon keys and strings upholding 
God's grace.

Heart rate
Quickened by joy
Mirrored in percussion
Encircling all present as one
Love race.

By CarolineCécile
Copyright © 05/31/10...

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... and flash of light
dart across dark this night.
Zigzag ozone, maze of blaze.
Voltage image, eye displays.
Faster than the reflex flicks.
Through the lens, fine focus fix.
On optic cell, it there etch,
then to the brain, lightning sketch.
Seconds on, rumbles arrive.
Pale percussion, half alive,
mumble rumble to its fate.
Thunderstorm thus dissipate....

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