Short Strummed Poems

Dangling from a branch,
Being strummed by the soft breeze;
Tenacious defeat....

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pastel symphonies
softly strummed on sunset’s harp…
           twilight violins...

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Surly songs 
Played by hungry men
Plucking staccato roots
Spotted chords of dried dearth
Cleansed in strummed pots of boiling verse...

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The drum drummed
The  guitar strummed
The trombone oom pah pah'd
The audience clapped 
Because they were rapt
And some called out Hurrah...

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Those words bruised my soul
strummed my mysterious heart 
with needled fingers 
scrubbed my deluded mind
stranded me, in a deep mire
.
-Saeeda©...

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A tenant farmer strummed one note
That some would argue Chopin wrote
Neighbours heard that sound
And plowed up his ground
Monotony sure got their goat!...

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tenuous strands 
lithely tethering 
the soul to reality... 
strummed unevenly 
by life 

sharp notes 
compose  
a subtle dirge 
of mournful 
ambivalence 

14 May 2023...

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This world seems to have strummed the wrong chord
So I offered a prayer to the Lord
Will wars never cease
When we all want peace . . . .
But my prayer was cut short by a sword...

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ruddy trawlers creak 
as fire strummed whitecaps compose- 
seagulls lock their wings 
sage eyes, pursed in wry wrinkles 
squint toward salt misted shards 

 syllables 5-7-5-7-7...

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Last night, I strummed a rainbow of songs.

Songs written by many diverse folks from, across the world.

Afterwards, I slid down that rainbow and celebrated the pot of gold I had found.
...

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The stiffened 
 star strummed streams
of half hummed hopes 
and dismally 
dismantled dreams.
Wistfully washing 
through the 
withering woodlands 
of the worldly 
wandering truth
 to what this
 life really means ....

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Heaven

High above crests descry
heralds angelic hosts. 
Hallelujahs sing to
hallow lazuline skies,
hailing from God's own breath.
Harps strummed in perfect love -
harmonies quench like rain.


Written 2/19 17 for Pleiades H Contest...

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The sounds of Autumn
Crickets legs as violins
Locusts screech from nowhere close.

Throwing their voices
As ventriloquists mimic
While leaves are strummed by slow winds.

Lightening bugs culminate
Sight into the symphony
My personal Fantasia....

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Upon the dusk violin,
Death is now but an angel,
Being moved on its strings like a harmony, 
“As Pain is a beauty”
Aloft and stroking into your ears with precision.
“Just as love is a tragedy”
Being strummed perfectly,
By the violins dusked bow....

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Blues suffused with rhythm
Born from pangs of regret
Bound with longing and need
Bass guitar slowly strummed
B.B. King's sad lament
Bittersweet love gone wrong
Broken heart;  mournful soul


October 15, 2020
Pleiades 2 Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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lovers of night
strangers
lovers of music and song
lovers of night
nightstrummers
strummed to the grooves of the song
lovers of woman
speak like singer
they say what right and wrong
lovers of the night
come together
in concerts
to appreciate the songs...

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*Image of Best Nature Wind by Gfycat.

douglas

patriarch skies prayed
volcanic aerosols sprayed
uke strummed hula swayed

2020 July 26
*1st Place*
STRAND completely new (14)any theme any form
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2020 July 28...

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While music holds memories of each second
And the devil weeps with each beat of her heart.
Unfit to steal, her essence will not depart.

He ciphers - baffled by this new development.
Designed by three simple chords - strummed with new contempt,
The madman crawls crooked - knowing she is exempt....

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Words,  dumbstruck
Hushed, stuck
Seething, soundless
Tongue tied, speechless
Still, in a stupefied daze
Lashed by roaring waves
Of silence, pin drop
Strummed a mute song
With echoes across
The  entire cosmos

Date Sept14 2016
Name of contest 
Contest no201
any theme any form
Max 10 lines...

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 to my son, Tito 


A handful of sand in the angel's palm,
how often you strummed and sifted the metaphor 
of Long Beach (since you were four and rolled 
and unrolled and jotted down the specks of time 
as if you knew what was behind the flimsy skies
that threw your quantum song asunder)....

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Hope shone through this acoustic shell 
as pipe dreams drifted through ripples
nestled amongst the glorious trees 
chords riff some strummed an original lick
as they frolicked in harmony upon a dim lit sky
their beauty flourished through fragrant cracks 
perfumed lavender replenished these restless hearts...

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There sits the dreamer
Isn’t he a fool
As he perches upon the balcony rail
And stares into the black oblivion
Companioned with a soulful lyre
Whose notes when strummed cause the stars to cry
The half moon rising with a rusty glow
Shading half of the old mans face
Sitting strumming
Envy the man
Who dares to dream....

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Bright notes in the beat of your heart’s refrain
Changed chords of my sad soul once strummed in pain
Compose for me only sweet melodies
Let’s dance, my love, an amorous reprise.

_____________________________________________
2/13/2018

Written for Contest: Romance in 4 Lines
Sponsor:  Silent One...

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Wandering through B J’s
Using up the time it takes 
To mount four new tires
I chanced upon a small guitar
Leaning against a set of drums
On a shelf at eye level
I took it down and strummed it
It was  tuned as ever  it could be
I wondered as I put it back
Who  had taken the time
Do you know anyone
who sharpens fish hooks...

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The Sun was on a rippling brook,
while the leaves on the trees,
by the wind were shook.

On the mossy floor,
a fire danced.

On the breeze a golden butterfly pranced.

Underneath a laurel,
lay a silver bow.
Beside it sat Apollo,
with his kithara in tow.

The Butterfly flew in the fire,
while Apollo strummed upon his lyre....

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