Syncopating Sisters
...Once there were sisters in duet
a pair that were tough to forget
Their tap dancing was entwined
as their two lives always aligned
Rat a tat tat, rat a tat tat
kinda sounded something like that...
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Categories:
syncopating, dance, emotions, life, sister,
Form: Couplet
The Edges of Rhyme
...The Edges of Rhyme
I wrote the playbook, watching what they took
While the earth shook I could not look
In the direction of the Big Book
Like a fish caught on a nasty hook
Ruminating , ...
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Categories:
syncopating, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Harmonious
...Harmonious is not a horrid homogenized concoction,
pulsed and blitzed in a blender mixer,
until the notes and flavors meld and gel set.
Instead it is a polyphonic pitch ensemble,
a juxtaposition ...
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Categories:
syncopating, memory, song,
Form: Free verse
Strange Vampires
...
"Strange Vampires"
all those years
ago, when conspiracies
flourished around
did we or didn’t we go
to the moon, when we
were once human,
proved to be lies,
whicheve...
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Categories:
syncopating, humanity, muse, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Sacred Music
...Sacred music
is not a performance Thing,
an exterior-focused
ego-enhancement event
that expertly v nascently happens
to win/lose competitive
LeftBrain dominant Me
An individual
dissociated...
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Categories:
syncopating, culture, health, history, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Portrait of Summer
...Hand in hand, we walk along.
Flicker up the sand.
Amidst the soft light of summer's evening silhouette,
The sky stack with images of a beautiful portrait.
Colourful sunset over the sea.
Landsc...
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Categories:
syncopating, allegory, beach, celebration, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Cuban Nights
...Music drifts down into the dim allies
A rhythm tune coming from every home.
Filled with the laughter of broken voices.
Like waves rollicking with the sound.
Cuban nights syncopating by stress...
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Categories:
syncopating, conflict, cry, dream, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Rome V Home
...It is not necessarily established as True
that all capitalist
and patriarchal red roads
lead back to EmpireBuilding Rome
Ancient Rome as original win/lose supremacist Home
unveils no more than...
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Categories:
syncopating, bullying, caregiving, christmas, green,
Form: Political Verse
The Voice
...Ecopolitics of music appreciation and performance
is not about race,
other than sufficiency of syncopating rhythm and pace,
nor only about competing subcultures,
although this comes closer to my ...
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Categories:
syncopating, earth, emotions, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Do Not Listen, Part I
...To all known shades, O virtuous Hinds,
With peerless hunger of a sordid kind:
Cover your ears. Cover
Your spirit.
Do not
Put the watered pot beneath the sun, that neutral sun
That struggles n...
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Categories:
syncopating, fear,
Form: Dramatic Monologue