Short Untuned Poems

Bob on untuned guitar as Andrea sings, “Fly me to the moon”.





01.11.2021
For Tease a Friend Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Bobby May...

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I have heard so many 
harmonies
But 'she is the sweetest 
melody'
This is not new, this is no 
news
Don't know it? You havn't 
been tuned!...

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By Feb one, fifty words or less, using:

Spandex boxer shorts
Listerine soaked Tissue
Lunar craters
Untuned TV
Short Bio
Beef Wellington
Portugese Man'O War...

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If love is blind, then what is carnal attraction?
Untuned fidelity can be quite the fatal distraction. 
A novel connection conjoins souls between me and new.
What is a twisted nail but a substitute screw?...

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Under cover of darkness
two glowing eyes in awareness 
of all its cruel foes 
that appears where ever it goes.
An untuned carniverous orchestra sings
funerary songs as Death stings,
suddently, many glowin' eyes scrambles in the shadows 
like consternated desperados,
yet an unlucky prey
met its doomsday!...

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Into that fire so brief,
death:
an organ untuned-
Spring, the last ...

we spoke-tear;
and gave console
eternal words
not from fear

you, beauty cry
my resolve strong
an arm upon heart
cascade tears-girl

(does she know?) that
love and life demand
joy, fear, life, love
her dress dipped blood

so long dreams
here comes life!

:: 03-12-2014 ::...

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fingers printed on face
they offered apologies for the mudslide
after the typhoon
standing on the mound
of twisted bones ;

the state had the right
to trample and extinguish
a bright flame,
a meteor, streak of dissent

only the sect, the clan
will surround the holy tree
to save the doomed species in the jungle
of laughing hyenas

i see my limbs separated
a piano remains untuned


SATISH VERMA...

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The day poetry stops
  words inept
    rigid strokes
      faltered attempts
A hand floats
  amputated 
    over paper white
      virgin
A blank mind
  untuned dissonants
    lonely tones
      blank bars
Dance halts
  legs cannot carry
    strangled sounds
      lost steps
And tears form
  small lakes
    round pools
      failed chances

***
June 24, 2017
Copyright © Darren White...

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(for Suu Kyi)

fingers printed on face
they offered apologies for the mudslide
after the typhoon
standing on the mound
of twisted bones ;

the state had the right
to trample and extinguish
a bright flame,
a meteor, streak of dissent

only the sect, the clan
will surround the holy tree
to save the doomed species in the jungle
of laughing hyenas

i see my limbs separated
a piano remains untuned


SATISH VERMA...

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A father ails, a son's lover's lament
Steel rudders committed, what hues to lament.

No courage, the lover feels not what to speak
A channel untuned to the feast of lament.

Tradesmen and saints, what heed they at all?
The father feigns slumber, a weak heart's lament.

The lover replaced, made a crater unwhole
His plea unreturned, an unpromised lament.

One tender father, one lover's fair bones
Their son and companion, shared in lament....

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