Short Sonority Poems

Plucking my oud's sacral strings
her felt fingers glide across my neck
the goblet drums' frisky clicks
like an oasis nestled in the desert
Persia's striking sonority slices me like a scythe...

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Wandering winds wind through tall thin trees
sending constant consumptive croaks
with sustained sonority.
Quaking querulously
a mellow message,
a somber song,
sweetly sung
by a
zephyr...

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STUDIES
intensive
  sources
&settings
comparative
  ideas
&intuitive
  vocabulary
fascinating
  representation
expressive
 imaginings
unconventional
&
 uninhibited
yet
somewhat
  stereotyped
&surrounded
increasingly
shimmering!
in
revealed
  light
simple
with
inner
  sonority
non-representable
in
an emotional
spectrum
...

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In the nascence of one’s polonaise,
Always an unknown tune invades, unseen, unfelt:
The sonority of a somber night-sonata,
Inside a cold, dark tomb.

Aleatory existence led by revolting wheels,
Propinquity of flesh becomes insuperable;
The horologist can’t cease the ticking.

The tour de force of infinity--
I wonder why it couldn’t be a holding, exoteric.

-Pin Dew (01/05/2017)...

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