Tambourines Poems

to proclaim your love
in the morning
and your faithfulness
at night
to the music of
the ten-stringed lyre
and the melody
of the harp 
                    — Psalm...Read More

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violens, chellos, giutars, drums, flutes, trumpets, tambourines, tenors
alto's, bass.........Read More

A cacophony of images flow
 past and future dreams on the go,
thinking two things at once
 focused on lunch,
twirling lights and jingled tambourines
 paint a picturesque magical dream.
All is quiet, immobile in the sway
 that dances in the mind play
while...Read More

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Here on the night before yesterday’s dream,
twilight composers retreat
Laughing at whispers a’ flow on the stream,
happily taking a seat

Practicing meadowlark lyrics to sing,
strumming a toadstool in tune
Awaiting the light that the fireflies bring,
blinking a wink at the moon

Tulips with tambourines...Read More

It was Christmas Eve and your father looked at his watch praying beyond hope that 
you would not be born exactly at midnight.  According to superstition that would
make you a witch by birth. The year was 1929 and ...Read More

Rustling skirts of gypsy women
Ears all tattered with gold
Tambourines and bells abide
While hearts fly by on wings of old

Hoops of flaming fire
Honey nectar flows freely so
Eyes are black as coal at night
Red lips are all aglow

So Rustle those skirts my...Read More

As dark gives way to light and day begins to dawn the symphony of sounds begin.
First a single chirp from a lone bird, then a response from a mate in reply.
Then as if on cue, the other birds in the...Read More

Lately, in my dreams
I'm doing backflips
On trampolines
Vaulting higher than high
Bouncing off
The springy sky
Free from gravity
Of worry
As the ground
Falls off my feet

I careen
To the beat 
Of tambourines
Tail lashing
Lavender flashing
Pom-pom sized
Orange eyes
I'm as free
As I want to be
Lately, in my dreams.

5/08/19

Entered in...Read More

The stage was being set. 
I needed to get out of the way so that I 
Would not end up squashed by the stage's immense size.
Yet even as the edges of the stage did nudge me, I could
Feel the softness...Read More

Beyond a sandstorm’s gritty veil,                       
A solitary Bedouin,
Like a ghost in a sea of dunes,
Rides slowly along in...Read More

When the rectangular walls
of life were closing in,
I felt the lid of a coffin shutting

Death was calling out,
telling me
I don’t have to breathe again ...

Just give in to the dark stillness

Then in the final moment of my crisis,
a flash of...Read More

Twilight composers


Here on the night before yesterday’s dream
Twilight composers retreat
Laughing at whispers a’ flow on the stream
Happily taking a seat

Practicing meadowlark lyrics to sing
Strumming a toadstool in tune
Awaiting the light that the fireflies bring
Blinking a wink at the moon

Tulips with...Read More

"BLACK CAT"



SILENCE
prowls on soft paws 
with sharp claws
Cutting up the 
Middle Road
Dark shadow moves 
SILIENCE
In absentia 
Empty Absynthe
Puncture wounds
Cold wind blows
Over tracks
Skids softly
like warm 
gants de Suède
on 
Poets’ Row
Rat goes 
Rat goes
Red scream 
scarlet ribbons 
LIFE
flows
Le Mort
blushes colour
a trite persuade
different...Read More

"Boys Cry 2"

The Sons of Fathers
The Fathers of Sons
God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Left him alone in Dark Woods
to fend off ribbons and tambourines,  
unholy army Salvation Hosts
“As I lay me down to sleep”
Close my eyes, "make no...Read More

The Flamenco dancer swirled and twirled past me 
her red voluminous red skirt floating
such intensity in her face
I was enthralled with her strength
and proud posture . . . 
her feet stomped in rhythm
to a strumming guitar and tambourines
her hands curved...Read More

The shepherd unrolls his bedding,
Too late to get back home,
He must lie, his head on desert rock,
‘Til the raising of the dawn.

He wonders what he cannot see
Behind the stars that shine above,
Does his mother look down on him,
With her old...Read More

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Peering through the enchanted door, tell me what you see
A garden filled with charming buds, thyme and rosemary

Peering through the enchanted door, tell me what you hear
Bumble bees humbly, buzzing endless cheer

Peering through the enchanted door, tell me what...Read More

Naked trees whose dilapidated bodies have outgrown the test of time
shoot unseemly  into the unaccommodating sky flustering as they walk by
Nude trees laden with deceptive shadows waiting for the morrow
Echoing  a somber tune with superficial  topsoil eroding...Read More

Puerto Rican girl
thin, thin, 
let street lights pour

bourbon on your hair,
anise on your skin.
Puerto Rican girl,

thin, thin, 
gin one white smile for me.
Let tambourines begin


Donal Mahoney
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Here comes Spring, sweeter than ever,
Come everyone and let us sever,
Sunlight finally returns in great mass,
The deer leaps on the tall grass, 
Can you hear the trees speaking,
All the flowers are springing, 
Ice breaks and the waterfalls cascade down,
Rivers smoothing...Read More

as tambourines pulse...
 
    stallions rock with gypsies' whirl

        firing dance of  hooves






12/27/ 2016    John  lawless Contest
The TROIKA- (Haiku with hooves)


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Tambourines in the air,
Whistles and bustles in a 
 rhyme.
In the house of Chloe,
Melodies of the heart.
A reenactment in the farm house
 of old
  rhythms.

Grand mother's tongue in cheek,
She is gone,
Gone home to be with the lasses
Free from the...Read More

The secretion of a Lilly is often mistaken for the timbers of a concrete ball. Many a time is the goldfish singing for a curry. Golden gophers gluing glitter. A wolf dancing in a stew of peas is more happy...Read More

It's time...
For a mother
In this mother.

Bring out those tambourines!
Brother Wolf will scream, as
Black, white, and in-between keys harmonize as teams.

It's time!
Let's look the world over
Wise women don't cower.

From the U.S. to Timbuktu, toot on!
First, the weak is made strong
Fair Ms....Read More

Our countryside road was

Festooned with orange heaps

Escorting us to be the grand orange fair

The gypsy dancers in orange flares

Jingled tambourines with orange ribbons

The bloated sun like an optimised orange

Spread its golden tissued canopy

Lighting up the already lit hearts

I let the...Read More