Tenor In The Sky
...The black cloud
Sounding like a herd of buffalo rampaging through a valley.
In its...
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deep... DARK,
trembling tenor voice...
It spoke-
Thunder!...
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Categories:
tenor voice, voice,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914
...In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with bitter taste, hearts torn...
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Categories:
tenor voice, christmas, friendship, hope, love,
Form: Narrative
Rids of Ridic Riddles
...RIDS OF RIDIC RIDDLES
Delusional convo with the inanimates;
February bragged none of us is his mate
¹and asked, "What month of the year has 28 days?"
-"All of them." I replied with a smirk on ...
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Categories:
tenor voice, 1st grade, riddle,
Form: Rhyme
Bill Hull-My Father
...No sunrise sparkled brighter,
No thunder clapped,
No trumpet sounded at your birth.
You were just born,
Grew to live youth,
To fish back country ponds, summer streams,
Run roadways and highways...
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Categories:
tenor voice, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Soul of An Angel - Life of a Moonshiner
...He served as a deacon in his church and was as pious as they come.
(But on the side, he sold whiskey from a thirty-gallon drum!)
He taught junior high Sunday School and was a Bible scholar.
(But o...
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Categories:
tenor voice, humorous, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Life Cantata
...How does the music flow?
Subtle single soprano notes and chorals sing out
in whispered melodies, blustery bravado mix doubts
when one tenor voice begins its solos on the rise
blending with the...
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Categories:
tenor voice, life, song,
Form: Quatrain
Hands of Surgeons
...Hands of Surgeons
Our friend Bob Lynott is undergoing
cancer surgery today at Duke University.
God, hands of surgeons be sure to guide;
Who we trust and on them have relied;
Now is not near;...
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Categories:
tenor voice, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Blackbird
...My father was a musician, with a beautiful tenor voice. As we seven siblings witnessed his coffin being lowered into that cold earth, a blackbird sang his heart out on the church steeple.
his pure...
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Categories:
tenor voice, cheer up, children, death,
Form: Haibun
A Foggy Window
...On the cool afternoon of a Fall day,
sunshine is replaced with hail clouds,
then the icy rain begins to fall on grass
making the parched robins fly away.
A foggy window with clear raindrops is ...
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Categories:
tenor voice, april, dark, flower, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Shiver and Quiver Horn Haiku Question
...So would you shiver
And then start to quiver from
Cancer of liver?
It was terrible
And had been unbearable
When we did find out.
We all prayed a lot
And many tears back had fought
And wer...
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Categories:
tenor voice, sad,
Form: Haiku
Resistance Is Required
...We’ve painted your smile disarming
Your glassy marbles alarming
Ignored your feeble warning, your face blue
We made our very own papier-mache Prince Charming
In what false light you’ve been hun...
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Categories:
tenor voice, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
It's a Delightful Day To Catch Fish
...On early Friday evening I get everything ready for a long fishing trip,
having checked out the weather, I'd be ready by Saturday afternoon;
and while driving I'll sing lyrics louder than a happy coon...
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Categories:
tenor voice, happiness, sea, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Paper Hearts
...Paper Hearts
Paper hearts
Alas desire waltzed.
And thoughts chortled.
Every yearning was
Youthful temptation
And hot love.
Words not found
Shaped a fated soul.
The feast: fleeting feelin...
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Categories:
tenor voice, love,
Form: Free verse
Soul of An Angel, Life of a Moonshiner
...He served as a deacon in his church and was as pious as they come.
(But on the side, he sold whiskey from a thirty-gallon drum!)
He taught the junior high Sunday school class and was a Bible schola...
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Categories:
tenor voice, funny,
Form: Rhyme
William (Smokey) Robinson
...Smokey Robinson
Liquid tenor voice
Poetic lyrics created
Through a life of sadness,
Talent remains
Mother encouraged her boy
to be greatness in song!
I saw a special on Smokey Robinson and...
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Categories:
tenor voice, art, black-african amer
Form: Ekphrasis
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