horn music
...Horn Music
In the late forties and middle fifties
horn music and military marches tunes
were often parlayed in the town's park
and we lived nearby and bore the brunt
of this noisy music
to ...
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Categories:
unmusical, absence, age, anti bullying,
Form: ABC
Sight Seeing
...From my English cottage
I can see America.
Éire sings, as it labors in my field of vision,
it's drunk on nostalgia as usual.
A great sail-winged albatross
glides across from one eye to the oth...
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Categories:
unmusical, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pianos Were His Love
...Bechstein, Blüthner, Steinway or a Fazioli Pianoforti
long had he craved to play them.
He was in love with grand pianos, their shape and sheen,
their sweeping contours, their circuit bodies.
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Categories:
unmusical, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Brilliant Is His Musical Mind
...I am not a musical person in any way or form
But my eardrums recognize musical genius
The trumpet player was featured in a local venue
His tunes were extraordinary. I had never heard such music.
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Categories:
unmusical, music,
Form: Free verse
Presiding Presidential Properties
...Why do Presidents
work out better
safer
healthier
when they insist on remaining
persist in reclaiming
active grassrooted residents?
Cooperative property administration health values
are roo...
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Categories:
unmusical, family, health, history, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Concinnity
...Now burst forth your long-suffocated song,
You gagged lips with mute anthems sweet!
Speak of your celestial lays with angels high
In stillest skies above men's unmusical beat.
Say which den u...
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Categories:
unmusical, art, mountains, muse, mystery,
Form: Lyric
Silhouetted
...Silhouetted against a moon hung low, a lone wolf howls
Unmusical laments Mused-ly well up from the bowels
Of anxiety, restlessness, loneliness, excitement
Theory upon theory why he bellow...
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Categories:
unmusical, animal, moon, myth, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Snakes and Hummingbirds
...To love, agapic and/or erotic,
is a positive economic-political relational choice
to trust whomever
and whatever is our Other right now
with open caring empathy,
even when we may feel like withd...
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Categories:
unmusical, beauty, culture, earth, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Love In a Name
...Love in a Name.
Crystal Falls, I saw this name on the net
I could so easily fall in love with a woman like her
Her name has so many possibilities a song
Or a dramatic love story that ends in ...
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Categories:
unmusical, anniversary, arabic, autumn, basketball,
Form: Sonnet
The Hills Are Alive
...I grew up gay
and singing in musicals.
At the time, these two seemed coincidental,
diassociated,
although in retrospect....
Some dancing too
but with no training in that area,
more about sin...
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Categories:
unmusical, age, earth, earth day,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
How Like a Song Unsung,Unmusical
...How like a prison is my cubicle
Within four walls, I feel I am entrapped.
How like a song unsung,unmusical,
My state of mind so far has not been mapped.
Inside my heart I used to have a room
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Categories:
unmusical, absence, adventure, heart,
Form: Sonnet
The Alterior Motives Conqueror
...He's the product of a ladies man
He knows how to take command
Grab her hand
Livening up those strolls throuigh the sand
And for you he will speak to the sea in a voice so deep
It could lull troy...
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Categories:
unmusical, daughter, food, life, love,
Form: Free verse
A Pauper's Grave
...I once knew a man of the sweetest voice,
He sang when the day grew dark.
He would sing sad tunes of a person’s choice,
And sing them like a soulful lark.
I once knew a man full of heartbreaking...
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Categories:
unmusical, life
Form: Ballade