Verse of Burgess
...Sprawling, against a backlit Sun. Magenta
the Clockwork of Time
and its infinite antinominies
..................of timeless aimlessness
and Void of Time
fades as a memory
the pu...
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Categories:
shostakovich, 11th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Acrostic
Same As Ever
...It rained.
A long dead dog got wet.
I fell head over heels in love again.
I think I died - thought - thunk.
Hot coffee revived
black no sugar.
Walking now on pins and needles
same ol same ...
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Categories:
shostakovich, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Shostakovich
...Dimitry Shostakovich
a gifted composer so slick
With a prolific reportoire
symphonic &for a choir...
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Categories:
shostakovich, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
An English Adaptation of Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea From Faust
...There was a king once reigning
Who carried a great, big flea—
And far from him complaining,
The flea filled the king with glee!
For to him that flea was dearer
Than even his only son,
And to ma...
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Categories:
shostakovich, allegory, humorous, irony, political,
Form: Light Verse
Grand Pianos
...In that
place
which is North of normality
where
insanity's just a formality
I'm sat
listening to
Dmitri Shostakovich....
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Categories:
shostakovich, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
The Call of the Alpha Male
...Robin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon
Hear the c...
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Categories:
shostakovich, funny, hero, humorous, men,
Form: Light Verse
Why Bother Dying
...Why Bother Dying
Instead...
Revisit the child within
Ask if Van Gogh hadn't experienced the sunflower
Would we know yellow and ochre as intimate friends
Would music's rapture remain alive without
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Categories:
shostakovich, philosophy,
Form: Free verse