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Syncopation Poems - Poems about Syncopation

Temp Morts
...Beyond the measure the traditions claim they sort and seek might they find, might they find ooh-bah-doo-bah: ah-ooh-ah! The backbeat was sorted from the "First tones" thats what she called it. ......

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Categories: syncopation, money, music, myth,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member 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: syncopation, community, dance, faith, friendship,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The Becoming
...VI. We are all metric modulations of our former selves—changing time signatures mid-measure, learning to count in odd meters when life refuses to conform to 4/4 expectations fi......

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Categories: syncopation, extended metaphor, fate, identity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: syncopation, childhood, identity, introspection, loss,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member A Poem to Make You Yearn-a for the Mythical Gandaberunda
... “The octopus’ tender tentacles tinkled like pomegranate bells ---" Cut, Cut Cut! What the 'H' are you talking about? ‘Tender tentacles of an octopus tinkling.’ Have you......

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Categories: syncopation, bird, confusion, fantasy, hindi,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Prismatic Self
... 'I think, therefore I am!' I write to bang and clang, to play with words, cast spells. Wrangle and entangle readers, with thoughts dredged from memories, resonating, reverberating within sel......

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Categories: syncopation, creation, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ridding Perception of Self
...Let the eye see, through clear, clean lenses Not a wilderness of mirrored reflections, Echoing biases of misconception, But, with true perception, rid of self. The sound I hear from out there, ......

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Categories: syncopation, senses, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shazz HAZZ JAZZ- for Shasta Simms
...Shazz Hazz jazz... Hazz a present tense sound verb to have, to it; Been getting down, sho’ you have; Shazz Hazz jazz... been owner of the views, rhythm blues; Been dancing in funky sh......

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Categories: syncopation, analogy, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Celestial Zodiac Jazz
...Celestial Zodiac Jazz In the constellation of sound, Where Miles Davis breathes celestial blue/ A Gemini's whim dances through the air/His notes like shooting stars Twisting notes like a lover......

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Categories: syncopation, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member Jazz on a Billboard
...Jazz on a billboard, a flash of notes, Urgent beats, syncopation, improvisation, and impromptu solos but why jazz on a billboard? What’s the hap’s on that? Man, what is the impact of the word ja......

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Categories: syncopation, music, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member Just Another Bird I Met
...Just Another Bird I Met Spasms of Feathers Cheering in Syncopation. Fresh, Rewarding, Rain. -Gray Squirrel 11-11-2024 ......

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Categories: syncopation, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member da DUM da
...It seems there’s a certain melodious beat discovered reusing these metrical feet. You can’t help but tap it first slow, and then rapid: an odd syncopation that brings ears a treat. H/T to <......

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Categories: syncopation, poetry, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member WRITE A BEAT TO MYSELF- DEDICATED VERSE FOR SHASTA SIMMS Shasta Simms
...In my recommendation of my syncopation Gathering of humanoids rhythmic sensations copulation dramatization rescape Rufus reggae beats Ginuwine Drumline rat a tat tat attack on this yet you'r......

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Categories: syncopation, adventure, appreciation, dance, humanity,
Form: Lyric
The Spirit of Allah through the Variety of Mediums Part 3
...III. Hope is in a New Face Being in a different light, we often see the life we know and ignore the life outside our circle. We met across the lines through a group of finding friends and hopefully ......

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Categories: syncopation, anxiety, appreciation, friendship, hope,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Both Sides
...Saddness helps, and joy distracts It is not depression From the both sides of each act You get mixed impression That’s how sun confronts the rain With complementation It goes over and again Ki......

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Categories: syncopation, introspection, love, philosophy, sad,
Form: Rhyme

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