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"maestro" poems
The billowing sea bows down dancing, the cool one comes— with love, as if with a flute on the lips, rising from the deep. Listen to the flute. Chorus clouds sing, drifting down the blue river— so mellifluous, into the sky they soar! From the secret valley, the punter sun ambles in, carrying wonderlight, as if it knows the flutist’s art— knows the rise from the sea’s bedrock. Every planet spins— a flying bee drawn to the inner music. Nothing pauses in the solar ring. The Moon, waning and waxing, in silhouette and half-light, sways above the sea full of life. It all began on this Earth, from our sea— Him, the Sweet Creative Maestro rose from the midst, and lifted the sun, the bumblebee. All the stars in the galaxy follow still— they can't forget the ancient story. Since then, the sun, brightest in the band, leads the mindful dance enduring, homeward— still following the haunting, eternal tune, pure mighty the one command: Qun. Be.
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 1:26 PM UTC
Music in Space
By rgpage The cool evening breeze filled with a scent of approaching rain. Caught by playful window shears as it passes through an open pane, to reach their   length and breadth toward the waiting bed. He was a lover of music and his woman, a passionate man with a sensitive heart. She was in love with the melodic way   his gentle fingers moved with sensual touch over her soft silk like skin of art. He started gently around her ears softly prying them open with the quiet richness of her melodies. Each note of his gentle kisses leading her to a sensual abyss, easing her down from the edge, controlling her descent, to her goal. Down the swirling dark and light blends of the music rendered from her soul. She was his instrument on which he placed his soft loving fingers, moving them effortlessly, caressing her most sensual delicate keys…Each body part smoothly rubbed added richness to her sensual sound driven by lust and loving trust.   Her ******* he fondled, licking and kissing, squeezing and rubbing. Silently giving thanks, to her creator for such an amazing instrument. Both of her hands with long slender fingers tangled in the long dark locks of his hair as she eases her maestro’s head up tighter against her soft beautiful mounds. The loving melody continues with his touch now joined with the sound of raindrops splashing into uncovered metal buckets and cans. The drops carried on the breeze through the playful dancing shears came through the other end as nothing more than refreshing cooling mist. Her body was his loving piano, and as with the 88 keys of his magnificent Baldwin, the sensual areas of her equally magnificent body, when properly stroked,  filled not  only the bedroom but the whole house with the most glorious ****** notes known to man.   After a while the symphonic ****** builds as he masterfully impales her with his instrument of love coming into constant contact with the one special key of keys. Its special sound as his strokes came harder and faster brought the whole master piece to a beautiful melodic end as the two lovers bath in the rain’s gentle mist…
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Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 12:40 PM UTC
the pianist
By rgpage The cool evening breeze filled with a scent of approaching rain. Caught by playful window shears as it passes through an open pane, to reach their   length and breadth toward the waiting bed. He was a lover of music and his woman, a passionate man with a sensitive heart. She was in love with the melodic way   his gentle fingers moved with sensual touch over her soft silk like skin of art. He started gently around her ears softly prying them open with the quiet richness of her melodies. Each note of his gentle kisses leading her to a sensual abyss, easing her down from the edge, controlling her descent, to her goal. Down the swirling dark and light blends of the music rendered from her soul. She was his instrument on which he placed his soft loving fingers, moving them effortlessly, caressing her most sensual delicate keys…Each body part smoothly rubbed added richness to her sensual sound driven by lust and loving trust.   Her ******* he fondled, licking and kissing, squeezing and rubbing. Silently giving thanks, to her creator for such an amazing instrument. Both of her hands with long slender fingers tangled in the long dark locks of his hair as she eases her maestro’s head up tighter against her soft beautiful mounds. The loving melody continues with his touch now joined with the sound of raindrops splashing into uncovered metal buckets and cans. The drops carried on the breeze through the playful dancing shears came through the other end as nothing more than refreshing cooling mist. Her body was his loving piano, and as with the 88 keys of his magnificent Baldwin, the sensual areas of her equally magnificent body, when properly stroked,  filled not  only the bedroom but the whole house with the most glorious ****** notes known to man.   After a while the symphonic ****** builds as he masterfully impales her with his instrument of love coming into constant contact with the one special key of keys. Its special sound as his strokes came harder and faster brought the whole master piece to a beautiful melodic end as the two lovers bath in the rain’s gentle mist…
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Sa'yo ko ito unang naunawaan. Ang paghalik ng pluma sa Papel ay hindi sapat upang Humalik ang katotohanan Sa katarungan, dahil tangan ng puso ang tinta at talinghagang Nakakubli sa wagas na pag-ibig Sa kapwa at kay Bathala. Ang tinig ng mga batas ay Tinig ng mga sibilisasyon at Rebolusyon ng mga sikmura Laban sa makina, ng makina Laban sa mahika ng salapi at Pighati ng lumang simoy. Nawa, Sa pagimbulog mo sa tugatog ng Himpapawid patungo sa paghahanap Ng katotohon, alalahanin mo ang Mga piraso ng iyong sarili na naiwan sa Akin: "Tanging sa hiwaga lamang ng Pag-ibig matatagpuan ang lalim ng lohika." Ito ang iyong bilin. Ito ang aking habilin.
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Oct 7, 2013
Oct 7, 2013 at 1:01 AM UTC
Habilin sa Maestro
time and tide waits for none nor does the soldier of the battle won swift as the light that pass the mist crept the landmass thunder and lightning left out when the major called out ahoy! all brave men the sons of the Ganges terrain reach out to the far north where the enemy slept forth show no mercy for you'l receive none feel no pain and march as one here's the ensign to raise up aloft think of the weary deeds that you've got let the din of cannon shred the rhythm to carry you in right tread never panic when the men grew wear wave the standard to shook the fear never misjudge the foe as weak but remember your oath to our peak never fall when ponderous struck never halt when stark strike fight till your warmth is turned icy then the hawkish eyes will see the unbeaten soul stamped on Indian lads the mortal's robes you 've clad holds the blessings of thousand which will retain your soul and spirit even when the tricolor is laid on the honored graves made hold tightly like limpet till success is met march brave Indians with gusto and show them you are a maestro draw your sword across to pierce the devil's heart across
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May 29, 2014
May 29, 2014 at 4:08 AM UTC
THE MAJOR'S COMMAND
The eternal tango of the maestro manifests itself in nigh infinite ways. With the flick of the artist's brush, the stroke of the novelist’s pen or the chicken scratch of the scholar’s nib, legacies are etched, history is written and the world is shaped. The astronomer, the craftsman and the physician all have one thing in common: Mastery. Such pinnacles of skill have decades of their lives consumed, nay devoured in the pursuit of perfection, of greatness. Like grains of sand slowly falling into a furnace are the seconds of our lives, trickling, melting into puddles. But as sand melts, it forms shapes; therein lies the potential. Moldable puddles, colourless, devoid of naught but a clear medium.
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Sep 25, 2015
Sep 25, 2015 at 12:43 AM UTC
Maestro, matrices and mastery
Tila nagtatanong, tanang mga muthâ “Saan ba nagpunta ang payat na mamà?” “Ilang buwan na bang hindi gumagalà dito sa ‘ming parang na kanyang tumanà?” Baguhin ang mundo’y dakilang pangarap Subali’t mailap mga alapaap Kung kaya’t bumangon kahit na mahirap Dal’wampung ektarya’y pinagyamang ganap Mahabang panahong masugid na nagmamahal Sa katuwang sa puso at kasintahang walang pagal Pati na sa gagamba at lahat halos na nilalang Pati na butiking naghatid ng liham Henyong ermitanyo ba o maestro pilosopo? Iba ang pananaw, sa buhay, sa mundo Lahat ay magkakaugnay at ang tao ay tuldok lang at di panginoong sentro. Pag-ibig sa bayan at kapaligiran Ay di sagabal sa mithing kaunlaran Basta’t angkop sa kaya ng pamayanan Sadyang sustenable at di pangdayuhan Bakas sa landas na kanyang nilakaran Larawan ng diwang tunay, makabayan Puso at isipang makakalikasan Karapat-dapat na pagbalik-aralan Sa Araw ni Ninoy, araw ng pagpanaw, Sa Araw ng mga Bayani hihimlay Bayani ng Lupa, may basbas ng araw, ng ulan. Binuo ang ikot ng buhay.
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Mar 17, 2018
Mar 17, 2018 at 8:21 PM UTC
Bayani ng Lupa
(co-written by Sharon Robinson) Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day. I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away. There were lots of invitations and I know you sent me some, but I was waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. I know you really loved me. but, you see, my hands were tied. I know it must have hurt you, it must have hurt your pride to have to stand beneath my window with your bugle and your drum, and me I'm up there waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. Ah I don't believe you'd like it, You wouldn't like it here. There ain't no entertainment and the judgements are severe. The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. Waiting for the miracle There's nothing left to do. I haven't been this happy since the end of World War II. Nothing left to do when you know that you've been taken. Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crumb Nothing left to do when you've got to go on waiting waiting for the miracle to come. I dreamed about you, baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah but some of you was light. The sands of time were falling from your fingers and your thumb, and you were waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come Ah baby, let's get married, we've been alone too long. Let's be alone together. Let's see if we're that strong. Yeah let's do something crazy, something absolutely wrong while we're waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. Nothing left to do ... When you've fallen on the highway and you're lying in the rain, and they ask you how you're doing of course you'll say you can't complain -- If you're squeezed for information, that's when you've got to play it dumb: You just say you're out there waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.
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Waiting For The Miracle
(co-written by Sharon Robinson) Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day. I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away. There were lots of invitations and I know you sent me some, but I was waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. I know you really loved me. but, you see, my hands were tied. I know it must have hurt you, it must have hurt your pride to have to stand beneath my window with your bugle and your drum, and me I'm up there waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. Ah I don't believe you'd like it, You wouldn't like it here. There ain't no entertainment and the judgements are severe. The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. Waiting for the miracle There's nothing left to do. I haven't been this happy since the end of World War II. Nothing left to do when you know that you've been taken. Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crumb Nothing left to do when you've got to go on waiting waiting for the miracle to come. I dreamed about you, baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah but some of you was light. The sands of time were falling from your fingers and your thumb, and you were waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come Ah baby, let's get married, we've been alone too long. Let's be alone together. Let's see if we're that strong. Yeah let's do something crazy, something absolutely wrong while we're waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. Nothing left to do ... When you've fallen on the highway and you're lying in the rain, and they ask you how you're doing of course you'll say you can't complain -- If you're squeezed for information, that's when you've got to play it dumb: You just say you're out there waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.
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My heart is the beatbox My mind is the maestro My soul is the song My body is the instrument
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 4:29 PM UTC
Music
08:18AM #ToSite Bagamat ako'y bulag Sa mundong puno ng sawing imahinasyon, Patuloy Kitang titingalain. Ihahagis ko sa Langit ang mga kamay At bahagyang tatakpan ang paningin Nang masilayan ang iyong kariktan. Nakasisilaw ang Iyong Liwanag, Sabayan pa ng nagbagong-bihis na liriko Ng mapang-akit na sansinukob. Bagkus, ako'y mananatiling walang kibo Kahit nahihingal pati ang puso Sa paghihintay Sa'yo. Muli akong aalukin Ng mala-piyestang pangarap, Siyang babandila sa espasyong Puno ng takot sa kinabukasan. Ang mga banderitas sa Kalye, Walang sawang tumatakip sa Iyong katanyagan. Ngunit hindi Ka kumukupas, Di gaya ng laos na musikang Hindi na tipo ng makabagong henerasyon. Hinuha ko ang lente **Makuha lamang ang matatamis **** ngiti**. At sa bawat eksena'y hindi ako pakukurap Sa mga alikabok na namumuwing, Silang nililok para ako'y patirin. Naglantad ang klimsa Ng kakaiba nitong anyo. Kaya't sumanib ang sining Na tila iba ang maestro. Puso ko'y kinatok Pagkat ito'y tumitirapa Sa bawat lasong kumikislap, Siyang sinasaboy Ng mahiwagang mga kamay. Ako'y nagpahele sa Iyong misteryo Hanggang sa naging kalmado Buhat sa **likas **** pag-irog**. Bumungad sa akin Ang Liwanag na gaya ng dati. Nakasisilaw, bagkus suot ko na ang pananggalang Masilayan ka lamang Kahit saglit lamang.
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Jul 20, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 at 7:42 AM UTC
Sky of Love
The story teller writes For a naked character On a bare stage. The one character, One line play. Profound, all encompassing; A brief run, But a blockbuster With opening nights In all the capital cities. The visualist Could use one brush stroke, One lump of unmolded clay, An unchiseled stone, Weathered driftwood Or a piece of glass To display in the great museums For our interpretation Of the exposed truth. One note could orchestrate On string, wind or skin, And the composition would be complete. The maestro could bow and walk; No encore could repeat. I want one line of verse To embelish my yearnings; To explain the cosmos, The meaning and crux Of this place, Including us.
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Mar 29, 2016
Mar 29, 2016 at 11:50 AM UTC
Minimalism
They began without notice, in the city of Mombasa By the Al shabab shooting baby Osinya in the head, Killed the mother, leaving a slug stuck in Osinya’s head Killing and mauling many others macabrously, Killing for no other reason, but tribe and faith, Their victims confess different religion and ethnicity. They had initially lynched the West Gate Mall In Nairobi, killing the aged and seasoned darling Of African poetry and true fountain of peace The dearest Kofi Awonor, in full watch of his son, Confirming a trail of the ghastly curse of fate and death That totted him arduously from his home in the west Of the tropical gulag that makes the land of Africa From where the terror maestro ; Boko haram reign scot free Mayheming, Killing, ****** and kidnapping harmless virgins Killing For no other reason but tribe and faith, Their victims confess different religion and ethnicity. They have now killed fifty peasants in Mpeketon town, ****** them in circles to puncture their virginity and brutally kidnapping those that are not ***** Using the AK 47 and the Ak 74 to shoot and **** Without reason nor course but failure of mind Botched down by authenticity of holy diversity Heavenly packaged in God’s idea of tribe, Uhm! An African man with a gun is a brute of brutes, Giving an African a gun is simple mess of the world In to helter-skelter poise tilting peace higgledy-piggledy, Killing one another like animals premised by Charles Darwin As overtly seen in the warring Congo and CAR, Where Africans **** one another in a stupid dint, To ape Rwanda or no! To outshine the Jewish Massacre In the Ammonium chambers of fuehrer Adolf ****** This stupid Africans baser than wild beasts, Who told you that your greatness will come from killing your neighbours; the fellow peasants? These African men are the modern homoguerrillus, Which one call cheap war making man They and **** ! **** **** **** **** **** **** For no other reason but faith and tribe, Their victims confess different religion and ethnicity. Gunshots of the gunmen in Africa are not A song of the caged bird, no whatsoever, They are cowardly maneuvers of the weak As the weak and cowards rarely forgive, They arm themselves to the teeth With deadly weapons from Russia or wherever Only to shoot and **** the old and malnourished Peasant women, killing the likes of baby Osinya Shooting a suckling baby to prove your heroism, These African men are really a Whiteman’s burden, They **** their fellows from cockcrow to chick roost For no other reason but tribe and faith, Their victims confess different religion and ethnicity.
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Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 9:45 AM UTC
THE GUNMEN OF AFRICA ARE NOT A SONG OF THE CAGED BIRD
They began without notice, in the city of Mombasa By the Al shabab shooting baby Osinya in the head, Killed the mother, leaving a slug stuck in Osinya’s head Killing and mauling many others macabrously, Killing for no other reason, but tribe and faith, Their victims confess different religion and ethnicity. They had initially lynched the West Gate Mall In Nairobi, killing the aged and seasoned darling Of African poetry and true fountain of peace The dearest Kofi Awonor, in full watch of his son, Confirming a trail of the ghastly curse of fate and death That totted him arduously from his home in the west Of the tropical gulag that makes the land of Africa From where the terror maestro ; Boko haram reign scot free Mayheming, Killing, ****** and kidnapping harmless virgins Killing For no other reason but tribe and faith, Their victims confess different religion and ethnicity. They have now killed fifty peasants in Mpeketon town, ****** them in circles to puncture their virginity and brutally kidnapping those that are not ***** Using the AK 47 and the Ak 74 to shoot and **** Without reason nor course but failure of mind Botched down by authenticity of holy diversity Heavenly packaged in God’s idea of tribe, Uhm! An African man with a gun is a brute of brutes, Giving an African a gun is simple mess of the world In to helter-skelter poise tilting peace higgledy-piggledy, Killing one another like animals premised by Charles Darwin As overtly seen in the warring Congo and CAR, Where Africans **** one another in a stupid dint, To ape Rwanda or no! To outshine the Jewish Massacre In the Ammonium chambers of fuehrer Adolf ****** This stupid Africans baser than wild beasts, Who told you that your greatness will come from killing your neighbours; the fellow peasants? These African men are the modern homoguerrillus, Which one call cheap war making man They and **** ! **** **** **** **** **** **** For no other reason but faith and tribe, Their victims confess different religion and ethnicity. Gunshots of the gunmen in Africa are not A song of the caged bird, no whatsoever, They are cowardly maneuvers of the weak As the weak and cowards rarely forgive, They arm themselves to the teeth With deadly weapons from Russia or wherever Only to shoot and **** the old and malnourished Peasant women, killing the likes of baby Osinya Shooting a suckling baby to prove your heroism, These African men are really a Whiteman’s burden, They **** their fellows from cockcrow to chick roost For no other reason but tribe and faith, Their victims confess different religion and ethnicity.
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Twisted and broken Dancing And limping Your perfect puppet on strings, Bowing And Bending In time to your madness; A tiny porcelain ballerina Spinning on a pedestal, As you orchestrate our final symphony. My sweet, Scary Maestro of monsters, My Conductor of Chaos And pain, I adore you- My darlin, My puddin. Bleeding and hopeful Here I am, Still, By your side; Your fondest hit Your favorite toy to squeeze (the life out of) Your prisoner in love; (Your good girl) Begging for just a little more. Heave me over the side Again Drown me in your molten insanity, Push me under- Just. One. More. Time. To feel the thrills, The chills, The danger; The happiness Of liberating manic laughter- To feel the helpless despair As I perform in your circus. Here I am, To beg a bullet For these lips, That praise your deeds, And pray for release, For a mutual destruction, A final comedy written in blood. I guess... the joke is on me after all... Right, Mr. J?
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Jan 21, 2017
Jan 21, 2017 at 3:57 AM UTC
Circus of Love
**Of all known phenomena Birth is the most wondrous And the most miraculous In the assortment of life’s stunners So you always are a miracle One readily celebrated each year As the sparkle of your smile Dazzles the world Like sunshine after a dark tunnel And the fire in your eyes is a smelter To melt iced hearts and smelt rock faces So dance maestro dance And never once forget the choreography Of the poetry in your fervent heart Where hopes and dreams are a lovely duet Happy birthday mover of the spirit You who creates joy in moments of magic When configurations of rainbow futures coax your heart To beat intricate rhythms from life’s score sheet Happy birthday to you, child from eternal vistas Let your dreams carry you forward to fruition Till life is oozing and dripping with honeyed dew And each early morning walk is capped with shower bliss And that promise of tomorrow and the day after the feat Of never giving up on the business of living, no matter what Happy birthday  to you; you of stardust and moon glow**
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Apr 2, 2016
Apr 2, 2016 at 6:05 PM UTC
Ode to a Birthday Girl
<!> inspired by a conversation with Maira Kalman strap on a name, adopt a persona, let my fingers do the talking, place the instrumental sharp point tip upon the blankety blank paper, maestro baton raised, coordinating, the first sound, the vocal chords trembling,   the first thought, the ultrasound image, entrance of a first violin, coalescing into, into the initializing single primary phonation, the stinging geometry of chance at last, throwing  down the gauntlet, glove slapping, and the tendons tense, the mouth opens, release and indentation, a letter's curvature, a black and white downward stroking, a sign is televised, revealed and released a one way only sign time bends knee, gravity suspended, terror morphs to expelling rapid firefights of imagery needy for spacing, even pauses mid-word  leave just this: where is the in in intimate? are you the in in inmate, or the jailor at the gate? you swear never again until committing once more, a sentence commutation, by committing a first sentence, and the greater toll taken and paid for, and the in in in-nate, questions your sanity happily <•> 9/17/17 10:55pm
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Jan 12, 2018
Jan 12, 2018 at 3:47 PM UTC
When I Sit Down to Write
I used to write poems about nature. Nothing in particular, just clouds, and wind, and sounds. Of brief encounters with other living things of various species, none more mysterious than my own. I remember once, this bird landed on a thistle. He was colorful and bright, offset against the waning light. Suddenly, sharply, as if awaiting the tap of a maestro, as if stricken like a note itself, he sang his heart out. It was brilliantly composed, masterfully performed, a truly inspired work. A silence followed. Looking briefly from side to side, hoping someone noticed. He reluctantly flew, bobbing on gray skies, into the autumnal horizon.
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Nov 23, 2013
Nov 23, 2013 at 1:27 AM UTC
The bird and the thistle
While sitting here one sunny day my favourite music started to play It started soft and grew in sound when the ***** boomed around Emotions running high and low while the sound of music ran its show The sound of brass echoes through with string quartet making things anew The concert hall is filled with tone chilling you right to the bone the audience goes wild at the end of the show and maestro conductor takes his bow for the encore there's the sound of Bach the audience leaves for now it is dark!
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Nov 21, 2014
Nov 21, 2014 at 7:47 PM UTC
Music
Over the horizon, lost in confusion, came the sad night, pregnant with stars. I, like the bearded mage of the tales, knew the language of stones and flowers. I learned the secrets of melancholy, told by cypresses, nettles and ivy; I knew the dream from lips of nard, sang serene songs with the irises. In the old forest, filled with its blackness, all of them showed me the souls they have; the pines, drunk on aroma and sound; the old olives, burdened with knowledge; the dead poplars, nests for the ants; the moss, snowy with white violets. All spoke tenderly to my heart trembling in threads of rustling silk where water involves motionless things, like a web of eternal harmony. The roses there were sounding the lyre, oaks weaving the gold of legends, and amidst their virile sadness the junipers spoke of rustic fears. I knew all the passion of woodland; rhythms of leaves, rhythms of stars. But tell me, oh cedars, if my heart will sleep in the arms of perfect light! I know the lyre you prophesy, roses: fashioned of strings from my dead life. Tell me what pool I might leave it in, as former passions are left behind! I know the mystery you sing of, cypress; I am your brother of night and pain; we hold inside us a tangle of nests, you of nightingales, I of sadness! I know your endless enchantment, old olive tree, yielding us blood you extract from the Earth, like you, I extract with my feelings the sacred oil held by ideas! You all overwhelm me with songs; I ask only for my uncertain one; none of you will quell the anxieties of this chaste fire that burns in my breast. O laurel divine, with soul inaccessible, always so silent, filled with nobility! Pour in my ears your divine history, all your wisdom, profound and sincere! Tree that produces fruits of the silence, maestro of kisses and mage of orchestras, formed from Daphne's roseate flesh with Apollo's potent sap in your veins! O high priest of ancient knowledge! O solemn mute, closed to lament! All your forest brothers speak to me; only you, harsh one, scorn my song! Perhaps, oh maestro of rhythm, you muse on the pointlessness of the poet's sad weeping. Perhaps your leaves, flecking by the moonlight, forgo all the illusions of spring. The delicate tenderness of evening, that covered the path with black dew, holding out a vast canopy to night, came solemnly, pregnant with stars.
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Invocation to the Laurel (1919)
Over the horizon, lost in confusion, came the sad night, pregnant with stars. I, like the bearded mage of the tales, knew the language of stones and flowers. I learned the secrets of melancholy, told by cypresses, nettles and ivy; I knew the dream from lips of nard, sang serene songs with the irises. In the old forest, filled with its blackness, all of them showed me the souls they have; the pines, drunk on aroma and sound; the old olives, burdened with knowledge; the dead poplars, nests for the ants; the moss, snowy with white violets. All spoke tenderly to my heart trembling in threads of rustling silk where water involves motionless things, like a web of eternal harmony. The roses there were sounding the lyre, oaks weaving the gold of legends, and amidst their virile sadness the junipers spoke of rustic fears. I knew all the passion of woodland; rhythms of leaves, rhythms of stars. But tell me, oh cedars, if my heart will sleep in the arms of perfect light! I know the lyre you prophesy, roses: fashioned of strings from my dead life. Tell me what pool I might leave it in, as former passions are left behind! I know the mystery you sing of, cypress; I am your brother of night and pain; we hold inside us a tangle of nests, you of nightingales, I of sadness! I know your endless enchantment, old olive tree, yielding us blood you extract from the Earth, like you, I extract with my feelings the sacred oil held by ideas! You all overwhelm me with songs; I ask only for my uncertain one; none of you will quell the anxieties of this chaste fire that burns in my breast. O laurel divine, with soul inaccessible, always so silent, filled with nobility! Pour in my ears your divine history, all your wisdom, profound and sincere! Tree that produces fruits of the silence, maestro of kisses and mage of orchestras, formed from Daphne's roseate flesh with Apollo's potent sap in your veins! O high priest of ancient knowledge! O solemn mute, closed to lament! All your forest brothers speak to me; only you, harsh one, scorn my song! Perhaps, oh maestro of rhythm, you muse on the pointlessness of the poet's sad weeping. Perhaps your leaves, flecking by the moonlight, forgo all the illusions of spring. The delicate tenderness of evening, that covered the path with black dew, holding out a vast canopy to night, came solemnly, pregnant with stars.
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I think if I should be more aware Of the peeling of a banana, And all its slightly muffled, sticky sounds I could call it music, and Become, myself, a profound cataloger of all things noise. For words are only structured noises, We mold like clay. Well, why don’t we simply reign in The noises that are already out there? We’ll learn the nuances of a peeling banana, Call them words: it is a banana saying, I’m peeling. We’ll call them poems, call them song. The sound of a cardboard coffee cup, for instance, Gently returned to a desk after sipping Multiplied by a classroom of Caffeinated percussionists would be Aptly called an avant-guard symphony! And I perhaps, A modern-day maestro, conductor at the front of the room Flapping my arms to the beat, up, down! Up-down! –Only pausing To write down the tum-tum-tum, furiously capturing this rhythm On paper for future readers to come. But I fear, it is in this act of writing it down, that The banana forgets how it sounds, Or I forget to sound the banana, and It all starts to become a sort of cacophonous din of Slurping children, left by the wayside by the Education system and adopted by Starbucks, Who doesn’t serve this sort of poem. So we must market this to the young folks; It will be a movement of ultimate vintage-chic, (Recalling the days of our wordless hairy brethren, Who could only rely on grunts and noise)                        To imagine Man without clothing is possible,                        But Man without poetry is simply absurd.
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Jun 30, 2010
Jun 30, 2010 at 4:59 AM UTC
Maestro
I think if I should be more aware Of the peeling of a banana, And all its slightly muffled, sticky sounds I could call it music, and Become, myself, a profound cataloger of all things noise. For words are only structured noises, We mold like clay. Well, why don’t we simply reign in The noises that are already out there? We’ll learn the nuances of a peeling banana, Call them words: it is a banana saying, I’m peeling. We’ll call them poems, call them song. The sound of a cardboard coffee cup, for instance, Gently returned to a desk after sipping Multiplied by a classroom of Caffeinated percussionists would be Aptly called an avant-guard symphony! And I perhaps, A modern-day maestro, conductor at the front of the room Flapping my arms to the beat, up, down! Up-down! –Only pausing To write down the tum-tum-tum, furiously capturing this rhythm On paper for future readers to come. But I fear, it is in this act of writing it down, that The banana forgets how it sounds, Or I forget to sound the banana, and It all starts to become a sort of cacophonous din of Slurping children, left by the wayside by the Education system and adopted by Starbucks, Who doesn’t serve this sort of poem. So we must market this to the young folks; It will be a movement of ultimate vintage-chic, (Recalling the days of our wordless hairy brethren, Who could only rely on grunts and noise)                        To imagine Man without clothing is possible,                        But Man without poetry is simply absurd.
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Is this not what it's all about? Waiting in the wings, stretching, turning, churning, anxious and adrenal, living for the dream, wishing for the dream, being the dream, dancing on beams, beneath the streams of lights and fans, arrayed like a bird in tulle, crinoline, silk, satin and linen white plumage, acting only on command, the music soft and flowing their frail, slender figures take to air, arms and legs, torsos tender, slender necks, wisps of downy hair, melding colours, sights and sounds, the stage a pedestal of fate, their beauty captured in gilded cages for all to watch and see, recaptured yet again, by the artist on the easel'd window of his canvas, a maestro of sorts, tapping his baton-brush, coating the blankness with sweet inspiration, like angels heavenly brought to earth, serenaded by strings, life from the blankness begins, covers the void, bejewels the mind's eye and beckons the ballet rehearsal to begin, yet shall in oil paint now and for all time never cease to be... "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." Edgar Degas ____________ Inspired by the painting by Impressionist artist Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal. --to view the painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/degas/ballet/degas.rehearsal.jpg
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Sep 3, 2010
Sep 3, 2010 at 3:24 AM UTC
The Rehearsal
My Eyes, to confiscate those Notes on-board My Ears, to abduct those shrill Tunes a-light My Hands, to guide the Maestro of the Word My Tongue, to speak of their Meaning's Delight My Mind, to sprinkle the Seeds of their Songs My Heart, to skip Jolly Tunes with a Jig My Spirit, to sponge my Past Living Wrongs My Soul, to sing your Legacy so big My Hands, to applaud the Kingdom's New Band My Chest, to parallel Vibes to your Beat My Legs, to absorb that Brilliant New Dance My Feet, to seal this Friendship with your Creed. These Parts sum; Three Sick Sires and a Dame And how my Laurels want to know their Name.
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 2:26 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE: E-MUTE
Take up your baton. Warm up the orchestra Make ready for the sweetness to come. Strum up the violins my maestro. I want to hear the song that awakens the senses just once more. It is my favorite one. It never grows old. It has been played for me time and time again but the notes still vibrate through my soul. Tune our instruments to the purest note. Make sure they resonate in sync. The drumming will not keep time but the beat stays rhythmic and steady. Our instruments perform harmoniously. Slow it down maestro I wish to hear The notes One At A Time… Perfection. Beauty. Soul. The theme of our melody. Prepare me for the crescendo. Let the beat transfer from the rhythmic drumming to the excitement of my chaotic heart. End our song with a down tempo from the wind instruments. Allow it to drift softly to the final rest.
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 4:50 PM UTC
Maestro
Orangey so tangy loosely her words flowery so rustic fun* erotic*   the panic straight jacket going ginger snaps her ticket *Pocketful of sunshine in your pocket* ****** the maestro In the stars of the cosmos On the edge but earthly Let's go slow Did we miss the whole entire glow "So Tickle me Pink" The stardust funds of the trust Having a light fuse The picturesque Fields so mystique personality Lights up unique Your word against mine In a matter of fact were in It's your cue waves pull me in If so the sky does it remain always blue such a variety Of cookies no outrageous Time for Oreos What's inside its outside Cleopatra's eyes snap away Like a masquerade Don't rain on my parade Love of Virginia innocently Love is the drug insanely Scrapes on her knees The western front Ginger Snaps Those bottle caps and buzzing honey bees Tangerine trees Galavant like General Lee Ginger the gunslinger She's the singer eating Saralees Whats to boot But getting closer To the naked eye to the surface be wise "Owl Hoot" So lovely genuinely He's husky and ruly Apps Gingersnaps Exchanging cat naps Her lips in higher states of trips Trying to get there Bohemian Rapsody The Queen of the economy Photo editing Unicorn pony Another brainless wedding We are the champions What a snitch like a witch Bad luck switch the lion's den Topiary timeless good luck Zen Loud sirens Drug trafficker morons The plastic Surgeons Backstabber persons Blue jeans snap taking a Sniff Shiba Uni howls To be loved in beauty My Mom Judy good earth bounty Tall and sleek every week Smells of Ginger no danger The earth on her cheeks Can love be any truer   Into the Gala the apple of her eye never goodbye
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Jan 23, 2019
Jan 23, 2019 at 8:17 AM UTC
Ginger Snaps
Orangey so tangy loosely her words flowery so rustic fun* erotic*   the panic straight jacket going ginger snaps her ticket *Pocketful of sunshine in your pocket* ****** the maestro In the stars of the cosmos On the edge but earthly Let's go slow Did we miss the whole entire glow "So Tickle me Pink" The stardust funds of the trust Having a light fuse The picturesque Fields so mystique personality Lights up unique Your word against mine In a matter of fact were in It's your cue waves pull me in If so the sky does it remain always blue such a variety Of cookies no outrageous Time for Oreos What's inside its outside Cleopatra's eyes snap away Like a masquerade Don't rain on my parade Love of Virginia innocently Love is the drug insanely Scrapes on her knees The western front Ginger Snaps Those bottle caps and buzzing honey bees Tangerine trees Galavant like General Lee Ginger the gunslinger She's the singer eating Saralees Whats to boot But getting closer To the naked eye to the surface be wise "Owl Hoot" So lovely genuinely He's husky and ruly Apps Gingersnaps Exchanging cat naps Her lips in higher states of trips Trying to get there Bohemian Rapsody The Queen of the economy Photo editing Unicorn pony Another brainless wedding We are the champions What a snitch like a witch Bad luck switch the lion's den Topiary timeless good luck Zen Loud sirens Drug trafficker morons The plastic Surgeons Backstabber persons Blue jeans snap taking a Sniff Shiba Uni howls To be loved in beauty My Mom Judy good earth bounty Tall and sleek every week Smells of Ginger no danger The earth on her cheeks Can love be any truer   Into the Gala the apple of her eye never goodbye
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She's not just a girl. No, one cannot simply call her a girl. She's a storm, a storm with skin, bound by passion and dreams. She's a temptation, her body a fire, My senses a helpless moth. She's a maestro, her laugh being the sweetest symphony of all. She's a lioness, the way she perseveres, fights, and defends. She's a diamond, brilliant and rare, to be cherished and protected. She's a mile, but only if beauty was an inch.
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Nov 25, 2014
Nov 25, 2014 at 10:33 PM UTC
She's
Bang, bang, bang, baaannggg I dreamed I was dying and goin’ to hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it was to have seen. Last night I was shot and arrived at hiphop heaven. And you know who met me at the big bling gates? The original kings of da hood themselves, Run DMC. They said to me, they said, “Bro, the Big Dude of the hood up here, has told us to show you around the crib. So come with us. Now standing on da corner is some of your favourite homies. **** I was glad to see them, The Notorious B.I.G. and the maestro of rap Tupac Shakur. I dreamed I was dead in hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it was to have seen. They introduced me to Snoop Dog, and they showed me the Ghetto of Fame with all the gold chains and number one hits up upon da wall. Then they said, “Bro, walk this way, there are a few more hiphop stars, that I know you’re dying to meet, they’re hangin’ for you. “There they were chillin’ by the curbside and staring down at me - Eminem and AKA MCA. Bang, bang, bang, baaannggg I met all my heroes right from the get go **** what a privilege to have finally met Then I asked them, who else do you think will join y’all, uh, say twenty five years from now? They handed me a book of sheet music covered with graffiti. They named it the Hood 4 Life Book. In it, were many names and some were already highlighted in black texta. I began to scan the pages and saw names such as, Dolla, Pop Smoke, Juice WRLD, Nipsey Hussle, Easy-E, Lisa Lopes, Nate Dogg, Lil Peep, Jam Master Jay, J Dilla, Proof, Soulja Slim, Big Hawk, Prodigy, Camoflauge, Natina Reed, Charizma, Bloodshed, Big Bank Hank and  Dav E Crockett. *** Dav E Crockett? Oh, well, that's when I woke up, and I'm sorry I did, because I always dream I’d end up in hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it would be, y’all be knowin’ what I mean?
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Mar 12, 2020
Mar 12, 2020 at 10:46 AM UTC
Dav E Crockett
Bang, bang, bang, baaannggg I dreamed I was dying and goin’ to hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it was to have seen. Last night I was shot and arrived at hiphop heaven. And you know who met me at the big bling gates? The original kings of da hood themselves, Run DMC. They said to me, they said, “Bro, the Big Dude of the hood up here, has told us to show you around the crib. So come with us. Now standing on da corner is some of your favourite homies. **** I was glad to see them, The Notorious B.I.G. and the maestro of rap Tupac Shakur. I dreamed I was dead in hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it was to have seen. They introduced me to Snoop Dog, and they showed me the Ghetto of Fame with all the gold chains and number one hits up upon da wall. Then they said, “Bro, walk this way, there are a few more hiphop stars, that I know you’re dying to meet, they’re hangin’ for you. “There they were chillin’ by the curbside and staring down at me - Eminem and AKA MCA. Bang, bang, bang, baaannggg I met all my heroes right from the get go **** what a privilege to have finally met Then I asked them, who else do you think will join y’all, uh, say twenty five years from now? They handed me a book of sheet music covered with graffiti. They named it the Hood 4 Life Book. In it, were many names and some were already highlighted in black texta. I began to scan the pages and saw names such as, Dolla, Pop Smoke, Juice WRLD, Nipsey Hussle, Easy-E, Lisa Lopes, Nate Dogg, Lil Peep, Jam Master Jay, J Dilla, Proof, Soulja Slim, Big Hawk, Prodigy, Camoflauge, Natina Reed, Charizma, Bloodshed, Big Bank Hank and  Dav E Crockett. *** Dav E Crockett? Oh, well, that's when I woke up, and I'm sorry I did, because I always dream I’d end up in hiphop heaven Wow, what a dope sight it would be, y’all be knowin’ what I mean?
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