Syncopate Poems - Poems about Syncopate

Distressing Calls of Discontent

...Distressing Calls of Discontent 



Distressing calls of discontent frowning upon my brow 

Convalescing with the fall of a malcontent who was too haughty and proud 

Coalescing in forms of c...

The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck World

...I.

In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll—
left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat
of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice
between being and non-being...

Today

...Sing a song to praise the sun.
Sing it loud before day is done.
Sing a song to praise the moon.
It always seems to leave too soon.

Today is the fortuitous day 
the little elephant is given awa...

Beats Me

...To count, uphold the beauty of the form,
Or to depart, defying honored norms?
To contact ground with regular impacts
Or syncopate one's way off beaten tracks.
The bard, in famed soliloquy, depart...

Prodigal Moon

...Alabaster moon
prodigal with pearlescent promises,
extravagant assurances,
pretends to symbolize
jazzy moon-in-June romance
for young lovers.
Gibbous guitarist plucks out honeyed
heart-string ...

Fo'C's'Le - a Dream

...fo'c·'sle    /'fohksel/  noun  deriv: forecastle
      1. the forward part of a ship below the deck, traditionally used as the crew's living quarters.
      2. historical:    a raised deck at the f...

Every Life Matters

...Heart beats
  chest breathes
    diaphragms expand
      eyelashes blink
        muscles stretch
          mind thinks ;

cartilage contracts
   glands swell
    lips quiver
     si...

Fantasies' Favours and Flavours

...Feel the pulse of the spouse in a house
You thought you knew
Until your mouth turned into the louse
You became as fantasies ate you up anew.

Guilt on stilts divorced
Sombre sentiments in the m...

Musical Happening

...repeated 
         sounds amplify,
       syncopate
unveil
marshal
    the subconscious
into
      surreal
         simplicity
of
 assonance
        and rhyme...

The Oak Leaf

...The Oak Leaf

Tenaciously upon its bough 
The wintered, withered leaf
Sustains the Southern wind somehow
Like breakers on a reef. 

Each naked limb...a syncopate...
In "New Orleans Rag" time
...

Dichotomous, Duplicitous Man

...Besides the hallowed covenant of The Way
 There is only one other univocal tenet I obey
  The human spirit is insuperable and indomitable
   Though it can wield an evil that is so abominable
   
...

When Grass Dances

...When grass dances
In the singing winds
To the syncopate melody
Upon the tree of joyous lark;
The envious rose flower
Fresh lets its bright petals
To the ground far beneath fall
In protest to t...

Gold Diggers

...There was a young man who Size 
Caused dames to tremble their Thighs
Swoon-- their names when he called It
and syncopate at the sight of his.... Wallet!...

The Love We Had Seemed So Far Away

...i look to stars and wishes flew through space never to be heard again
fun to friends hearts do meld and break facing until time ends
this loop that plays and beats that syncopate become but a gem
...

Sing To Me, Some Blues

...Sing me a old down-home song;
Sing to me some blues.
Syncopate the drums, sing loud and long.
Sing to me some blues.
Tell of people, from a homeland ripped,
Packed like sardines, cross the ocean...

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