Short Tones Poems

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Premium Member Gray Tones of Blahness

gray tones of blah ness
settle into apathy
yesterdays flatline

pathetically plain
ridiculously stagnant
my mind plays opossum


Tones

Behind each unvoiced whisper
a shouting heart remains.

Beneath a raging heart
words unsaid speak on.

Within each murmured thought
a shallow grave endures.

Behind words once spoken
lay all things broken.

Enclosed within an unheard whisper,
a raging heart.

Wolfgang Mozart Paints In Tones

Wolfgang Mozart wolfed in haste,
A poetic sonata serene,
Harmonizing in good taste—
Finally finishing in canteen,
For a fix of caffeine.
 
Wolfgang Mozart makes no bones,
The audience not realizing,
He painted harmonic tones,
Spellbinding, yet not surprising,
Tunes so mesmerizing.
© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Ring Tones

When choosing a ring tone,
Make sure it won’t grate
On your nerves or turn into
A sound that you hate.

They vary from gentle
To jarring or shrill,
While doing the job
They’re designed to fulfill.

We snap to attention
When hearing our phone,
So its ring should be one
We accept as our own.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member MUTED TONES

MUTED TONES
numerous
   paridisal 
elongated 
   eurhythmic
 hierarchical
     backgrounds 
radiance
    glimpsed 
in  
esoteric
  embodiments
   aspiring
& initiated 
to
stylise
  intimate
illusions   
  of
fellowship
   orientation
 generic 
revivals
    ironic 
ambitious
elements
Form: Verse


Premium Member Somber Tones

Staple diets tainted gray still pesticides they spray gallops horse of dapple grey fourth beast say, ”hell’s to pay” as life bubbles into shape for human illusion’s sake two thousand twelve’s wake Love in life is not a fake Somber tones may meander worldly concepts detest a new face many old faces doth not erase Love’s face, by perdition’s race
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Grave Tones Dark Glamour

Though much maligned, patiently, I wait
for the fall of beauty to be enthralled
and rest within my iron gate, 
where love and innocence is recalled.

I have wrapped your hull in gentleness
and adorned your amorphous soul,
entombed, in wombed, guardian I, rock you 
bringing fond memories which coalesce
and ensorceled lullabies to this knoll.
Dark is the glamour which bids you adieu.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Eternal Vibrating Tones of Grace

Eternal Vibrating Tones of Grace

Eternal dawn, nurturing womb,
Hallowed pure catacomb
Romantic heart of fragrant blooms
Sparkling splendor enthroned

Love from eternity
Sacred vitality
Hope's opportunity

A heavenly wink from mercy's face
Eternal vibrating tones of grace

2-3-22
Contest: Quietus (January 2022 Edition)
Sponsor:  Unseeking Seeker
Syllable Counter HMS
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Miles Tones

You spoke a new language
  of rarefied air
  guided nonchalantly 
  through curving channels of brass

Conduits of cool
  juries of jazz
  floating past soulful valves 
  harbingers of what will come

Slender fingers
  improvising storylines
  magistrates of melancholy
  bailiffs of bop

Miles from the mainstream
  a milestone of 
  modern modalities 
  kind of blue
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.

Tones of Beige

That obscene stare 
aggravates the silicon 
thrust. You become a victim
of an upheaval.

The white dwarfs have 
invaded the blackboard.
You can get a glimpse
of unsolicited rape.

A cyanide capsule 
hangs on your chest.
Will you commit a suicide 
after an unnatural kill ?

It takes a toll. The 
abuse of the fingers.
Instead of writing a name
you print the cave.


Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

Star-crossed at Karaoke

Mobile ring tones at morning light,
disturb the shapes under covers,
the outlined echoes of last night,
two star-crossed microphone lovers,
drawn from opposite ends of town,
yesterday’s pub entertainers,
way on down at the Old Three Crowns,
they met singing Gloria Gaynor, 
ramped and amped with emotion,
to songs that belonged in the haze,
now wake to face their commotion,
the music of separate ways.
Form: Rhyme

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