Tablature Poems | Examples


Verse of Burgess

Sprawling, against a backlit Sun.   Magenta

 the Clockwork of Time

and its infinite antinominies

..................of timeless aimlessness

and Void of Time

 fades as a memory

the pulse and rhythm of each staccato stroke



against the clockwork springs

 and fine-tuned apparatus

    the pendulum swing

and weighted balance strokes



Masses of Fixed, orbital constructs

and circadian heartbeat pulses

conforming to some Final End

of Morbid Alarm

or Eternal Awakening



 the surreal bending of metronome reflection

    twists the Absolute structure of melody

(notwithstanding it's momentary cadence,

and sequence of endless notes



Cascading

backwards in patch-work puzzlement,

  like Shostakovich having a break before the

Symphony begins

and lets out Piano-Forte brash

as if in dissonant protest

 to the scandal of patterned, and ordered

Tablature
Form: Acrostic

Realism

A hypnotist within reason;
Charading as an apostle;
Crooning carefully along
Tablature of the mind.

A realism portrait,
In a landscape, never entered;
Like Moses, and the Promised Land;
A symphony never finished.

Always rehearsed.


The Amalgam of Pain

I am concerned with the structures that sustain the universe, 
with the mighty river of time, 
the tablature and the compass of souls 
dispersed in their endless penances, 
the enigmatic smile of doubts 
overlapping the fragility of certainties, 
the detestable silences that precede painful decisions 
and with the thick amalgam of pain 
that poisons our days with the most varied enigmas.

What worries me is the shock 
when I wake up from the nightmare of living, 
the need for millimeter precision 
in counting the steps until the freedom of not thinking, 
the innumerable precipices 
that surround any and all will of the mind 
to keep away from the fainting, falls and stumbles.

What I am concerned about 
is the indifference of entities or deities 
that could undo the deception of atoms 
in condemning us to finitude, 
constantly and habitually 
expressing unmistakable signs of contempt 
for creatures who have given them a supposed superiority 
over their own destinies. 
my concern is about the extension of the shadow
that negatively illuminates the path 
we should follow under the light.
the rest don't worry me.

Unconducted

We all must go, no matter our importance to the world, or someone. 
   There is no set schedule, or fairness of longevity.
So when the time comes, and it shall, just know.
   When the heart sings the songs of sorrow, the tune is unrehearsed.
   For the tears of pain are intertwined with those of joy.
Linking the chords of past and present sounds, inscribed on the souls tablature. 
   Allowing the strings of emotion to be randomly plucked, by the familiar fingers that play life's symphony.

Love Exam

Who's voice meatus
with a sweet tenors
tone
which words are sung
so lovely
so smooth and sweet
Nonet Musette?
Atonal Baroque?
Vivace Trill Trombone?
uh, you don't know
Rubato Tutti?
Meatus Tablature ?
sweet, sweet tone
do you have interest
in the clefts notes, huh?
does the whiskey from de Tablature
calm you want mi?
Sensual sounds of a Clap Happy crowd,
yes which sung is sung
that which is played is danced to
yet this is the Minuet Mezzo,
who's mask is perfection
and who's face shall be revealed
this very Minuet Mezzo!
Must the Bass Note keeper
make the Cleft Note Keeper 
smile, for one then to hear
them together?


Article Seven B', from the Works of Hussy, copyrighted 1856, She Chopped the forest down to create the perfect Bassoon, she found fun in a Dogwood tree. She became angered when An artist used one of her Bassoons to serenade his new lover. When a fella in the crowd took her away from where the tomato's were she was heard saying, " he so stupid, darling: he so stupid!"
She tossed tomatoes at him when he Played " Must be Love" to his fiancé.


Composing

As I gently hold your rounded body
close to my chest you see through me to read 
the tablature in my heart and feel the beat
emanating from it;
composing

involuntarily I shut my eyes 
to braille read you with my calloused left hand finger tips 
as it moves up and down the fret board
caressing your long giraffe neck; 
composing

I sit there with you and hum
soulful melodies as my right hand strum
your tuned up strings and my left hand fretting
a progression of chords belonging 
to the same key;
composing

you never say to me a word or two
yo never tell me you are tired	
but when I have a song to do
I sit there with you
and hold you close to my chest,
Strum you, caress you and 
you give a soulful  melody with all your best; 
composing

I sit there with you, compose songs 
and sometimes cry on you 
and sometimes smile to you
I fret you, I strum you
But you never say a word or two 
You never tell me you are tired
I sit there with you and 
hope that your strings will not break;
composing

Bojosi Ditshwele ©

From the Third Eye

These are the words that write themselves,
phrases struck in steel
and driven into me,
borne of tablature and burning,
speaking only of their silence
as Atlantis, lost in dark constancy,
might re-appear out of the sea
knowing, still unknown,
yet known to be unseen.

There is a cloud upon my brow,
a doubt embracing certainty,
a synthesis of thought and draught
quite rich enough to taste.  It augurs death;
it augurs why; it smiles and spins away.

I smile as well.
This unknown knowing 
leaves a trace to follow...the ellipsis
saying this is not the end.  It augurs breath
a little while, the mind upon
an open path, the pristine gift
suspended somewhere
just beyond our eyes.
                    ~

Premium Member Tablature

Red
conveys
energy-
in
triumphant
joy
green
from blue
and yellow-
becalms the tense
soul
great
silence
flows from white-
black tolls in the
night
art
Form: Lyric

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