Tonal Poems

Dissolve the Ego

...Dissolve the Ego

Like ready for life moulded souls, 
Trapped in flesh with mortal 
brand, 
Labelled with name, a social number, 
Yet with sanctioned control 
by hidden hand 

Not necessaril...

The Narcissist Who Saved Himself - Cynthia Howard - collaboration with Dilly Dally

...nothing spoils this surface view ~ see me
crave attention, gift empty touch  
tonal mask veils flaws and vices  
face alter ego and kneel

to feed the shallow shadow that circles 
~ around ...

butterfly messengers

...from above a hum, a gentle pop and they appear out of thin air 
large as Right whales out of the sky they pour in like colorful dreams

gliding down on papered metal wings, the airborne clan desce...

The Penknob Kid

...PENKNOB: Is our household word that my kids euphemistically created of the two phrases that I purposely refrained its actual pronunciation by slurring PENKNOB: Phrase #1. Hands-Off/or don'...

Merry Christmas

...When the wind blows through the trees
I see you waving through the leaves
When the wind blows through the chimes
I hear your name in tonal rhymes
When the music starts to play
I dream about the ...

Intention

...INTENTION

transcendent
dynamic
  turbulent
consolation

overlooking
tonal
  varitions&
possibilities

 a
disjunctive
  predictions
in a
discrete
  prescence
to
diminish
&
comple...

Paraphernalia An Open Form

...PARAPHERNALIA
interior
 features
    irrelevant
tendencies
fostered

idiosyncrasies
apparent
 active
     & vibrant
a comprehensive
 selection
modelled
certain
      &fascinating
fash...

Signals

...It is interesting how TV commercials,
are now more vacuous, more entertaining,
more unconvicting, more annoying than ever,
yet
he was often in-the-thrall of
their invasive noise
it was a backgr...

A Shift To Realism

...Over the confines of the cliffs
in a cloud of crystalline haze
in the midst of a tsunami of whistling

skyline shadows in golden amber
hues ooze into the ocean
triumph against cravi...

Rflections An Open Form

...REFLECTIONS
 cognizant
 between
 commitment
of
the
linear
in
a
    tonal
 series

nonetheless
expand
 disparity
of
the
stylistic
 unified
by
convention
 intense
&muted

the
a...

The Welkin - and - the Influences

...1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small white beach
Skip stones / thoughts nag / min...

Quadroon

...Quadroon 

An African journey through Hawaii, Haiti, a detour north
settling in between the extreme, where summers are hot 
and winters are bearable.
In a country old that has an Arabic tone in ...

What Do You Have To Teach Me Today

...Lesson 1.
	What do you have to teach me today?
	For I have learned much from “teaching” my “children”.

Lesson 2.
	I will not always give you what you want.

Lesson 3.
	You will not always ap...

Rustic Beacons

...RUSTIC BEACONS
overgrown
  crowded busy
shrouded in mist
understated
    austere
stark subtle
     undulating
stripping away
to
near abstraction

a motif
an echo

pitched
   touches
...

A Mystic Rose Smile

...A mystic rose smile that belonged to my mother this is what I recall   

My easel and I resting in the spirit,  by the grandeur of a morning tilt.  As the  
Yellow sunrays str...

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