Peace of mind
I need not build a mansion
to find my peace of mind.
I need no fleet of luxury cars
for calm to dwell inside.
All I need is a whisper —
a gentle breeze
blown beneath a clear, untroubled sky,
under a tree that leans above a quiet, streaming brook
casting a cool, soft shade.
The bright sunlight
will wrap me
in a tranquil blanket,
within a
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Categories:
symphonies, cool, extended metaphor, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
My Lonely Symphonies
My heart plays somber symphonies. It plays them exclusively for me. They are fragile and feminine. Breathtaking and melancholy. They perform songs of tragedy and cry out with sorrow but they are perceived by myself alone. Like an isolated violinist in a vacant theater, they are radiant but heartbreaking. My heart plays somber symphonies. Can’t
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Categories:
symphonies, art, deep, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Symphonies Of Destruction
The wind blows, wails and cries
Her strength, her rage, on an upward rise
The sky that was clear now is black
Her vengeance, her fury unfolds to attack.
Lands tremble, crack and bends
Destroying all what now offends
Spirals of dust begin to form
Tornadoes marker carries her storm.
The sea joins and matches in rage
Waves rise high on its vast open
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Categories:
symphonies, nature, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Symphonies
Under vast expanses where silence reigns,
Dreams drift, untethered by reality's chains.
A symphony of stillness envelops the soul,
In silence we embrace, we become whole.
Heartbeats echo the earth's silent song,
Unseen connections to which we belong.
Meaning emerges without the need for rhyme,
A testament to existence, sublime.
Horizons blur, where sky meets land,
A meaning to time's endless sand.
Mountains loom, silent
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Categories:
symphonies, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Symphonies and Symposiums
Today, while riding the bus,
I met a rider who's an ambidexter.
He's definitely not a wuss,
& he said he lives in Mt Chester.
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Categories:
symphonies, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Simulations and Symphonies
Simulations and Symphonies
Discussing life inside a simulation
Amalgamating strife with signs of humiliation
Confronting life with positive configurations
An enchanting wife that doesn’t need invitations
Caring for what others naturally overlook
A watchful parent, a well written book
Beauty that strikes you to take another look
Another indicted political crook
Waiting for conventional solutions to the problems with the system
Counting
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Categories:
symphonies, corruption, courage, integrity, international,
Form: Rhyme
Lulling Symphonies of My Land
Guarded by towering hills on the East
And flanked by the Arabian Sea on the West
With its easterly shore of stretching sandy swell
That lulls the restless waves to sleep,
There is a land, my land of green vegetation
Nestled among palm trees and paddy fields.
Oh! I am in love with this narrow strip of land
Of
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Categories:
symphonies, appreciation, home, music,
Form: Free verse
Collarbone Symphonies
Pass me along
a pair of drumsticks
so I can create
vibrating calypso melodies
on the steel drums
found within the bones of my collar
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Categories:
symphonies, imagination, music,
Form: Free verse
Ballads and Symphonies
The soul of a place,
The lines written in our hearts,
The songs that linger.
November 12, 2022.
A New Hiku Footle Tanka Poetry Contest,
Brian Strand.
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Categories:
symphonies, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Spring During the Winter
spring peaceful nostalgia
Beautiful spring day
Yet out of season
Loving nostalgia
Drawing me into embrace.
Warm buttery sunshine
Dollop of ecstasy
Cascading over my back
Raining down like home and joy and peace.
Collapsing gently to the ground,
Stretching to feel green-gold earth
Beneath my fingertips
Chiming symphonies draw my notice.
As I lay there,
Still,
Feeling and listening
To the soft breezes
That the rest of the world
Perceived as gustings
Of
Wind.
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Categories:
symphonies, environment, green, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Symphonies In Space
a hummingbird's delicate grace
floats free of time
wings thrumming
heartbeats drumming
symphonies in confines of space
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Categories:
symphonies, bird, heart, music, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme
Seraphical Stellar Symphonies
A billion blazing Suns that shine for me,
One heart beats within their symphony…
My eyes expand to the morning glimmer,
For sorrows fade a decrescending dimmer…
Splendour is their shine of Eternal Elysium,
Fulgor fusion fires of hydrogen into helium…
Luminosity lusters of a beacon brilliant birth,
Scintillating sunbeams surfacing on the Earth…
Nucleosynthesis nears the atmospheric aurora,
Photosynthesis prances with the frolicking
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Categories:
symphonies, space, star, sunshine,
Form: Sonnet
Silent Symphonies of the Nazarene Night
Silent symphonies surrender the Nazarene night,
Where empty hearts splendor within the white…
A child is born amongst ambient Angels alight,
Where all adorn within a manger of starry bright…
The Nativity of the grotto graces gleaming gold,
Holy Spirit does bestow as we wonder & behold…
Where joy and peace spread throughout the land,
Rejoice and release upon the taking of
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Categories:
symphonies, christmas, faith, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Night Symphonies
Locusts and crickets rub their legs like mad
Their summer night symphonies uniformly bad
Yet when chill breezes still these musicians' strings
I long for the return of their discordant wings
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Categories:
symphonies, insect, music,
Form: Couplet
Birds Sang Symphonies
Hidden deep within me
Dwelt joy I never knew,
That chose to reveal itself
The moment I met you.
From depths I could not fathom
Arose a raging fire,
Smitten by your beauty
My heart raced with desire.
An uneventful life I'd led,
Each day passed in its turn.
Love then called upon me
Unleashed, my passion burned.
Colours seemed more vibrant
Birds sang symphonies,
Somehow the sun shone
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Categories:
symphonies, joy, love,
Form: Rhyme
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