Short Thrum Poems

Lyre that you strum
  Melody in hum
    A tale, myth or a thrum?...

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silence has a sound
the whispered thrum of heartbeats
counting coup

8/23/2021 

Bite Size Poem #18 - Poetry Contest...

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Soft, the white dove
  Coo  coo  coo
Booms crusty walrus --
  Coo-coo Ca-choo

Super senryu
  Marvelous monoku
Thrum go the comments
  Ooh-ooh pa-doo...

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In the darkness I crouch and wait: for dawn to warm 
my bones and face and replace;
the ache of life and fate.
To hear the song of sunlight 
thrum! 
Therepace yon army's marching drum....

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Pink throated hummers
deep in the colorful blooms
thrum the only tune

cornflower blue skies
hummingbirds in plums and reds
whipped cream clouds adrift

the scents of sunshine
follow the day everywhere
into ruby dusk...

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Stress
My hearts pounding
A steady thrum
That's drawing closer
A pain in my chest
With every single breath.

Stress
My hair is falling,
It pulls out in my hands
I cry as it wraps
around my fingers
with every strand....

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~   death ... breathes a heart beat -


                       each tender thrum draws closer ...


             the explosion ... Life   ~







~ 2nd Place ~  in the "Magicicada" Poetry Contest, Maureen McGreavy, Sponsor....

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When I started throwing some, 
I felt, as though my heart numb;
Weren't they things I got as gifts?
Didn't I save them midst rifts? 

Foods we consider true junk,
Needs, in quantity, get shrunk; 
That the generations come,  
Could feel truly safety-thrum...!


21 March 2022...

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Able to breath,
in a moment of serenity,
staring into eyes,
that hold the beautiful sunlight,
booming hearts beat,
like the thrum of hummingbirds wings,
tracing circles softly on skin,
finger tips lightly touching,
kissing lips, skin brushing,
able to breath,
with you by me......

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Song for Ballyheigue

	County Kerry, Ireland

Twig fire limn
eight fairy
in a lour cave mouth

Four of whom
a tabor thrum

Four of whom
breathe zephyr
through wee fife

All of whom
leap star,
the joy of life.

All of whom
sing lark, 
the yet to come


Donal Mahoney...

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That Night

The moonlight was
PEARLESCENT.
EVENTIDE had been
Long gone.
FERAL HOWLING 
Could be heard.
It was eerie!
And it CRIMPED 
my style!
There was a
TANG of 
Fear in my mouth!
The normal THRUM of a
Usually soothing
Was not!
It was all
PLUMB odd!


Date: 22-03-2021...

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The chant, the drums
  the beat, the thrum
The fires leap high
  the beast must die

The screams, the shouts
  the painted war-whoops
Leaves crackle, thick smoke
  fetid air, throats choke

Metal spears all raised
  sharp cries pierce the haze
Too late the high priest
  beast's heart has ceased...

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Everyone loves the Turtle Dove.
Our hearts thrum for the Hummingbird!
But have you heard of the Humphingbird?
With each failure and success 
He exhibits neither joy nor stress.
Whether he finds loss or triumph
He greets both with a bored “Harrumph”.
Beyond that I have naught a word
To say about the Humphingbird....

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John B. Curtis put the chew in the gum *
  Three Stooges put the 'nyuk' in the 'nyum' **

Little Jack Horner stuck his thumb into plum
  ~ Now who snuck the rum into thrum ***



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* 1848, the date
**Ha, ha! I'm not sure either
*** 'sneaked,' according to pedagogues and
       grammar gods......

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Serving my Nation I dreamed
But to wake and dread
Making a precis of the data.

Imaging the drops
Cascading my drums
Which eyelashes could not dam.

Was it not my desire
That I be decked
In the coveted dress?

Oh the monster's drill
That kept me drenched
And oft kept me dry

But patently in few days'
I shall hear the thrum of drum
And in the end find the City a droll....

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Pendulum clock grandfather caramel pear 
    Pacified cogs set time tamper potential 
    Tranquil hands erase a thousand arousals 
    Blossom fuzz snow covers midday Summer thrum
    Camembert cows graze daisy dot Milky Ways 
       




            20th September
            Written for Contest:
            Hypnogogic Dream
            Sponsor: Suzette Richards...

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I got arrhythmia
With no biz here
Still got my heart
Who could ask for anything more!

This old heart beat 
Got new smart beat
Slow then fast beat 
Who could ask for anything more!

My Oxidation
Has a syncopation
No resuscitation
Hangin’ round my door

With a thrum beat 
Not a dumb beat
Long as some beat
Who could ask for anything more!
 Who could ask for anything more!...

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When your feeling down & your heart it aches, 
And every moment of your day,  your heart it breaks,  just remember I'm always here for you too pull thrum,  no matter what it is you do. Ill still be here when you need to be loved,  between me and you I'm your angle from above,  here to give you that needed shove,  to help you to find the right path again I will always be your bestest friend....

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Dark wine reminds me of you
The burgundies and cabarets
The tang and thrum and hiss
That spiral like Egyptian silk

Nights that swell like cork
This night, a thousand
Under va single lamplight
In public or alone
Very late or very early
When I write my poems

Something of you still taut
Still tugs still pulls
A rope that trembled
Hummed between us
Hummed, love, didn't it
Love, how it hummed...

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Daisy Mae is walking by the scented jade meadow,
of warm butterscotch days and mulberry sundown,
And in the green trees, lingers a murder of crows,
Lying in wait for raven night, when luster abounds!

Vast skies are teal, and a whisper's on the breeze.
She is lost in the moment, as the sunshine pours,
And scarlet and purple birds sing in different keys,
As meadow and moor, thrum in vibrant discourse....

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This August day the air is still, humid, and stale.  The Sunlight's  hot golden rays pour slowly down through the umbrella of tangle leaves.

Its rays rests upon the spears of grass, nude ground and roots. I hear the building rattle thrum of the cicadas in the tree. Laughter of my grandson, as I rhythmical swing him back and forth, and spin him, on his spider web tree-swing that hangs from a large limb.

8/9/2022...

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Courtesan rays slip through saffron robes 
undaunted  countenance persists 
past spuriously puffed up wares 
burying a man alive 

Protect me from this sea 
drown out in apprehension 
unscrupulously seizing me 

Engulf me in a mere chestnut gloss 
where the specters lie in wake 
loop your thrum against my form 
and pleasure you may take 

°as the night rests so shall we 
and in morning a love will rise...

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Listen to poem:

 She 

 wrapped in ribbons of light
Oh, so sweet a smile
lit
those pistachios in fiery eyes

refilling the vessel of a soul 
counting all strings plucked
in excited thrum - 
a beating heart

paradise is never far, no
 not for me
walked in her graceful dawn
with blooms that go on and on
beguiled by desire's call 

She  

 Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer (1974) - She ...

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A rainbow of flowers adorn her hair 
cascading an effervescence 
~ 
to her being I feign 
fallen fast and drifting free 
in heartfelt fantasy 

night dawns as feeling fawns 
within the glow of the moon 

skies erupt   visions clear 
amongst the stars I swoon 
to her every hypnotic thrum 
~ 
I awake 
gentle winds blow 
red campion dance 

seas remain a rare calm 
awash in her beauty 
reflections cast the way...

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The mango grove hums,
insects sing in the scratchy thrum,
the wet-lead air.

Knee-deep, the water sweats
a dark smudging fear.

We are a party of four,
four machetes,
four slouch hats,
four men looking for
reasons.

Trailing tendrils snatch at us,
lacerate skin and courage.

After a few hours
we are drained,
barely speaking
just wading our way
inwards,

all four
longing for

that tropical beach bar
and the girl
we left behind it....

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