Within the Whispered Wind
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Within the whispered wind, bumble bees
fly their syncopated figure eights.
Praying mantises fall to their knees
…within the whispered winds.
Rich blessings float from heavenly gates
and set...
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Categories:
syncopated, inspirational, natural disasters, religious,
Form: Roundel
American Cacophony
...Microtonal mayhem misses the mark
a triple concerto for sirens, drones & bullets
groaning ghosts pluck piano strings
extramusical praise: present (& past/future)
we're going around & round (sings...
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Categories:
syncopated, dark, music, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
The Paradiddle of Being - Book Three: Just Be
...IX.
In the ICU, machines create their own songo—
ventilator, heart monitor, IV pump—
forming an accidental orchestra
the clutch of machinery holding time
like a hi-hat choking i...
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Categories:
syncopated, community, dance, faith, friendship,
Form: Lyric
The Pied Piperess
...Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet
Once upon a time, there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat
Beknownst to all...
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Categories:
syncopated, evil, parody,
Form: Prose
Rooted
...Today, my hair is jazz—
wild coils improvising in the wind,
syncopated with no apology.
It scats when I walk,
riffs when I laugh,
and plays the truth off-key
because it knows perfection
never ...
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Categories:
syncopated, hair,
Form: Other
spark quickly the rise
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Spark quickly the rise,
Dilating dark with glitter stars of cats eyes.
A language we sausage use.
Clumsy myths attenuated
With parachutes of feelings mapped;
Syncopated copiously.
A do...
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Categories:
syncopated, 9th grade, america, childhood,
Form: Free verse
On the Threshold of Depravities' Door
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I objestigate between arabesques and sleep,
fugaciously spasmodic in fluxes and leaps.
I'm indifferent to the misanthropic mocking,
that welltering inflection that I call plockingism...
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Categories:
syncopated, word play,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Jungle love
...Title: Jungle Love (Under the Stars)
(Verse 1)
We’re lost in the shadows, hearts racing fast,
You’re my muse, love and hate, I can’t resist this blast.
Underneath the moonlight, in this midni...
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Categories:
syncopated, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, books,
Form: Romanticism
Noxious Guttural Humps
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Written: January 10, 2025
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The stillness separates us —
quivering quietly akin to the cusp of daybreak
when whispers wane —
it ...
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Categories:
syncopated, analogy, bereavement, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Iceman the Bronx
...The Iceman the Bronx/Tony Adamo
I DIG THAT THE ICEMAN’S BACK, HITTING THE SPOKEN WORD STAGES IN THE BRONX AND THE OTHER BOROUGHS IN NEW YORK/AFTER ALL HE IS BORN AND BREAD IN DE BRONX/WORD SPITTER...
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Categories:
syncopated, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
78 Years of Valour
...Seventy-eight
A number, a heartbeat, a nation's pulse
Freedom's rhythm, syncopated with time
Tricolour dreams billowing in the wind
Saffron courage, white truth, green hope
Ashoka's wheel-spin...
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Categories:
syncopated, confidence, courage, happy, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Dance of Anger
...The Dance of Anger…
A weary waltz,
on a sheenless floor.
Offbeat music
gyrates an endless cycle.
On two, accent anxiety’s weakness
Syncopated rhythms erupt.
Love songs
are a miss....
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Categories:
syncopated, anger, emotions, fear,
Form: Other
Awakened
...Awakened
"Silence fills all the spaces between
the soft flutter of fragile butterfly wings.
There one second and then gone, the faint breeze in a syncopated song.
As twilight gatherers t...
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Categories:
syncopated, angst, crazy, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Introducing the Splitzmodic Vibratones
...Emaciated test-tube mutations
Raised apart in pristine distillations
Conceived in dexedrine celebrations
and the crazed, ecstatic inhalations
of the professor’s choicest pheromones
Right-...
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Categories:
syncopated, music, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks...,
(a poor excuse for legs),
and get me the latest
sophisticated prosthetics advancements,
whereat integration of cultured stem cells
into custom made...
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Categories:
syncopated, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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