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Syncopation Poems - Poems about Syncopation

Premium Member Virginia
... I want to go to Virginia With a girl named Virginia. Feel the sullen breeze cross my face, Surf over the knobby contour of my nose, Then whiz past my ear as I hold Virginia close. ......

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Categories: syncopation, america, art, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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

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