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"percussion" poems
There is something magical in the whirring of a midday laundromat. A cessation of pride, maybe. People all dressed in sweatpants the air full of detergent smell and the sound of coins clicking against great tumblers as they go round and round and round and round... The people smile back, no use pretending superiority here. Whistlers twitter on, folding towels and socks into neat, organized piles. The children are well behaved, their hands full of potato chips given by their parents as a pittance for their patience. The patient patrons ponder on, their empty hands crumpling receipts. This, with the crunching of chips and the distant whistle over the percussion of clicking coins clattering in a dryer compose an unintentional opera, an ode to humility. Humility's honorable honesty heals humanity's hubris. Noisy trucks pass outside the floor-to-ceiling plate glass windows, Where the hot air wreaks its violence and men make their ways in spite.
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Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014 at 5:00 PM UTC
Ode to Humility (laundromat)
Can I write you a love song I’ll sing it softy in your ear all night long Blow gently without words on my saxophone Diamond and Pearls behind the throne A beautiful ensemble meant for only you As I give credence too Take my hand Cross this journey with me as I sing about faraway lands Past Egypt pyramids shifting Morocco sands Lay back my love, allow your mind to silently drift Feel the enchantment of my piano keys as it spiritual uplifts I’ll sing love songs of old A cappella chorus echoed from deep within my enlighten soul I’ll sing to you about the blues, society’s injustice, and elements of darken storms Keep your heart warm, while playing my French Horn Enrapture foretold from this dedicated symphonic poem A music sheet of percussion, woodwind, brass, keyboard, and strings Harmony carrying the mind away as the joy of coming spring I’ll hum your favorite beats, can you feel the crescendo now Fiddle from the heart by the sweat of one’s brow Submerge your cerebral cortex, lose yourself in the sultry tunes Harp sounds bathe of light kissed from the illuminating moon Destiny overcasts in the lyrics Fate floating stratospheric Karma of others handled in the eyes of satiric Opera, I give you so grand in its grace French Creole dialect murmured among silk and lace Sounds of my flute resonant to face Allowing my Cello sounds to thoroughly embrace Can I write you a love song Body and soul serenading soprano to keep you standing strong My guitar stringing your philosophies along An equal equation, one plus one equals two Emotions, feelings, sentiments, its tenor expressed only for you No compass to my heart, my seasonal love found in hidden melodies Trombone guiding back and forth breathless as it please Orchestra sounds Ascending minds, bodies, souls, pass the opening clouds, divine and profound The last note sung by me as we gradually come down Beautiful music embraced, needs never to make a sound Shh, close your eyes Meditate on the music for a little while Hush sweet baby don’t say a word My heart softly tweets to a mockingbird If that mockingbird don’t sing Can I write you a love song created only for your being As minds are sightseeing Hearts fleeing Timpani drums guaranteeing Entwined of our divine wellbeing Emotions freeing Crooning of bodies heard as the day is long Can I write you a love song
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Sep 9, 2018
Sep 9, 2018 at 10:39 AM UTC
Can I Write You A Love Song
Can I write you a love song I’ll sing it softy in your ear all night long Blow gently without words on my saxophone Diamond and Pearls behind the throne A beautiful ensemble meant for only you As I give credence too Take my hand Cross this journey with me as I sing about faraway lands Past Egypt pyramids shifting Morocco sands Lay back my love, allow your mind to silently drift Feel the enchantment of my piano keys as it spiritual uplifts I’ll sing love songs of old A cappella chorus echoed from deep within my enlighten soul I’ll sing to you about the blues, society’s injustice, and elements of darken storms Keep your heart warm, while playing my French Horn Enrapture foretold from this dedicated symphonic poem A music sheet of percussion, woodwind, brass, keyboard, and strings Harmony carrying the mind away as the joy of coming spring I’ll hum your favorite beats, can you feel the crescendo now Fiddle from the heart by the sweat of one’s brow Submerge your cerebral cortex, lose yourself in the sultry tunes Harp sounds bathe of light kissed from the illuminating moon Destiny overcasts in the lyrics Fate floating stratospheric Karma of others handled in the eyes of satiric Opera, I give you so grand in its grace French Creole dialect murmured among silk and lace Sounds of my flute resonant to face Allowing my Cello sounds to thoroughly embrace Can I write you a love song Body and soul serenading soprano to keep you standing strong My guitar stringing your philosophies along An equal equation, one plus one equals two Emotions, feelings, sentiments, its tenor expressed only for you No compass to my heart, my seasonal love found in hidden melodies Trombone guiding back and forth breathless as it please Orchestra sounds Ascending minds, bodies, souls, pass the opening clouds, divine and profound The last note sung by me as we gradually come down Beautiful music embraced, needs never to make a sound Shh, close your eyes Meditate on the music for a little while Hush sweet baby don’t say a word My heart softly tweets to a mockingbird If that mockingbird don’t sing Can I write you a love song created only for your being As minds are sightseeing Hearts fleeing Timpani drums guaranteeing Entwined of our divine wellbeing Emotions freeing Crooning of bodies heard as the day is long Can I write you a love song
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sacred drum thumping ancient rhythms living eternally throughout earth the sound births a percussion of subconsciousness.
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Nov 17, 2011
Nov 17, 2011 at 3:17 PM UTC
Heartbeat
Hunting has a noble heritage, for sure Bringing us together, it forged a species Keen-eyed, communicative, feared by the fierce                So who am I to begrudge you your sport? I, too, love wide open skies, tramping over bog and fen, I even quite like dogs! I imagine nature might reveal herself to you In signs jealously guarded from the armchair carnivore. I can almost reconcile your harsh percussion With the croak of the raven, the sloshing tide And the chewing and mooing of cattle. But the pheasant!  For the love of God, the pheasant? It can hardly be a battle of wits! I've seen him as he sits, a big, red bullseye On fences and ***** Startled by every day he survives. How stirring can it be, Picking off the ones the cars and lorries never got? When you carry him home, Better off dead, Hang him in your garage for a week Feeling like Henry VIII, Cut him down, slit him open and find the crop Stuffed not with heather shoots and beetles But with half a pound of store-bought grain (Generously laced with antibiotics) - I hope the realisation creeps up That you may as well have asserted yourself In the hen coop, Blasting away at befuddled poultry And saving yourself a walk.
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Nov 24, 2010
Nov 24, 2010 at 1:33 AM UTC
The Pheasant
I am an italicized remark, your spicy punctuation; I am your steamy satisfaction, your permanent vacation. A unique innuendo, a read between the lines; I am a story like no other as I lick between your thighs. from Cosmo, The New Yorker; A romantic gentleman lover. A sweet wine you taste-test and lick around my lips, I am a kiss you can't resist- a naked sweat, a seductive bliss. I am the palm that stings the skin, a ***** spank than burns within. I am a moaning, seeping ****** that rumbles with percussion. I am your emphasized description although no adjective does justice.
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Jul 21, 2010
Jul 21, 2010 at 8:08 AM UTC
A Read Between The Lines
I am sitting on the surface of the stone faced moon looking in through the gray above the green hanging over the black shingle roof of the room where I am sitting. I can't see me resting here. The streets of my youth are out my window through a hole in the trees in the still autumn night. I must rise to the call of the bread truck man, to the whinny of the rag picker's horse, to the distant clanking of a slow freight train. So far away on the stone faced moon how long my ears have thirsted to drink the sounds they cannot drink again, to sponge the voices from the streets of my youth and squeeze them back a drop at a time. Sitting on the surface of the stone faced moon I can see the globe rolling cars upon it. Outside my window into autumn is the incessant din of transportation, the percussion of outbound movement toward the stone faced moon where I sit.
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Nov 10, 2012
Nov 10, 2012 at 1:44 AM UTC
Stone Faced Moon
*Upon a bright spring morning, In the warmth of the ember sun, Adorable chromatic koi's pose, Graciously leaping in a distinctive pond. Casually stroking their fins, In a flattering array, On this delightful, And cheerful beautiful day. As they glide smoothly, Hiding underneath huge stones, Preciously playing peekaboo, Each in a beauty of their own. Near a tall brick wall .... beneath the purities of cascading waters, Portraying a lively show, As the zephyr gently embrace, And the waterfall plays a soothing percussion, as it flows.*
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 1:20 PM UTC
Preciously Playing Peekaboo
Rap is crap Can be written while napping By simply slapping words like zapping Up alongside trapping and wrapping And suddenly you’re a rap star Driving an expensive car And before your coffee is cold You are draped with gold Maximum bling But it doesn’t mean a thing Other than money because honey If your ‘song’ lyrics are still known. When ten years are blown by And you are no longer a famous guy Whose words are forgotten It is because they are misbegotten And liked by the current batch of airheads Who think this is music when instead It’s a beat they can feel in their feet And if they don’t read the words Printed in the album, what is heard Is a lot of screaming and percussion Not worth discussion in Billboard. Someone could cut the microphone cord And all anyone could hear would be drums And the audience spilling their beer, And nothing worth humming; Lyrics for the dumbing down of the race, A major entertainment disgrace That destroys the ears and means nothing That will ever be revered like Sinatra Elvis or The Beatles have done. It may be number one today But when time passes away It will be nothing but the shouts Of a bunch of untalented louts To an audience one has to fear Was born with a tin ear. Brent Kincaid 6/1/2015
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Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 10:52 PM UTC
RAP IS CRAP
Excuse me for my hurt, I know you mean well, And you want to inspire, And uplift me, But language is a fickle art. One that can make the difference, Composing tone and the words themselves. And there is no greater insecurity Than the one called Me. Since the very beginning, I have been openly listening, Engaging in thoughtful discussion - The subject of You, the percussion. I immediately spotted possible repercussions. I wanted, and I still do, To know your essence, But healthy exchanges Involve equality, And I don't want to be left hanging, Feeling like I'm lesser. I crave knowing the rest of your essence, But have you no interest In knowing the same? Are our minds connected Of the same fibers Or are we what we weave, Being different in how we perceive, A lifetime of individual strings? The only Person I should keep in my life, Making me feel inferior and uninteresting, Is Me - And I shall escape that fate, With unconditional love, and positivity. I am deeply interested, In knowing MySelf, loving MySelf, And to You, who has shown limited interest In simply knowing me, You, I choose as a direction of my Purity, You, unaltered and true, You, and Me, Alone - It all, once again, Always begins with You.
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 4:42 AM UTC
Insecurity
Heartstone is a reflection in music on a ‘lost’ poem. The poem described in its two short verses a summer’s day, a landscape, a fossil found and placed in the palm of a child’s hand. The poem inspired a seven-movement work for wind, brass and percussion with solo piano. Here is its poetic programme note. Chert The piano draws an arc of rhythm rising then falling. Above two choirs of wind and brass exclaim, fanfare, mark out shorter, determined gestures of sound. The procession, almost a march, becomes a dance. Alone Two choirs of wind and brass become four couples whose music weaves from complexity a simplicity: Chromatic to Pentatonic twelve becoming five. Prase Four stopped horns, five extended tonalities. Together they wander a maze of Pentatonic paths; alone, and in pairs, as a quartet they discover within a measured harmonic rhythm. Tension: resolution . . . and surrounding their every move the piano insists an obligato, a continuum of phrases, absorbing into itself the warp and weft of horn tone. Sard Oscillating in perpetual motion the full ensemble occupies a frame of time and space. Flutes, reeds, double-reeds brass, piano, percussion mirror-fold on mirror-fold layer upon layer overlapping. Yarns of threaded sound. Tuff Without a break the mirrored oscillations patter pentatonics on tuned percussion of marimba and vibraphone whilst a batterie of drums lays down shards of beaten rhythm against this onward folding of tonality change. In the background a choir of winds flutes and single reeds waymark this recursive journey gathering together cadential moments and the necessary pause for breath. Marl Relentlessly, the motion is sustained, piano-driven, a syncopated continuo, rhythm-sectioned amidst layers of percussion. Adding edge, a choir of brass and double reeds amplify the piano’s jagged rhythms providing impetus for phrases to become longer and longer, ratching up the tension, ever-denying closure until the batterie delivers a conclusive flourish. Paramoudra Pulse-figures of winds. Motific cells of brass. Both negotiate a stream of fractal-shaped tonality expanding: contracting. A blossom of fanfares folding into pulsating layers of tuned percussion, flutes and reeds. A dance-like episode absorbs a chorale. Four horns in close harmony against the continuing dance. A duet of differences flows into a cascade of chords in closed and open forms. The piano supports brass-flourishing figures before a final stillness. Heartstone In gentle reflection the solitary piano – a figure in a landscape of collapsed harmonic forms - presents in slow procession the essence of previous music.
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 12:41 PM UTC
Heartstone
Heartstone is a reflection in music on a ‘lost’ poem. The poem described in its two short verses a summer’s day, a landscape, a fossil found and placed in the palm of a child’s hand. The poem inspired a seven-movement work for wind, brass and percussion with solo piano. Here is its poetic programme note. Chert The piano draws an arc of rhythm rising then falling. Above two choirs of wind and brass exclaim, fanfare, mark out shorter, determined gestures of sound. The procession, almost a march, becomes a dance. Alone Two choirs of wind and brass become four couples whose music weaves from complexity a simplicity: Chromatic to Pentatonic twelve becoming five. Prase Four stopped horns, five extended tonalities. Together they wander a maze of Pentatonic paths; alone, and in pairs, as a quartet they discover within a measured harmonic rhythm. Tension: resolution . . . and surrounding their every move the piano insists an obligato, a continuum of phrases, absorbing into itself the warp and weft of horn tone. Sard Oscillating in perpetual motion the full ensemble occupies a frame of time and space. Flutes, reeds, double-reeds brass, piano, percussion mirror-fold on mirror-fold layer upon layer overlapping. Yarns of threaded sound. Tuff Without a break the mirrored oscillations patter pentatonics on tuned percussion of marimba and vibraphone whilst a batterie of drums lays down shards of beaten rhythm against this onward folding of tonality change. In the background a choir of winds flutes and single reeds waymark this recursive journey gathering together cadential moments and the necessary pause for breath. Marl Relentlessly, the motion is sustained, piano-driven, a syncopated continuo, rhythm-sectioned amidst layers of percussion. Adding edge, a choir of brass and double reeds amplify the piano’s jagged rhythms providing impetus for phrases to become longer and longer, ratching up the tension, ever-denying closure until the batterie delivers a conclusive flourish. Paramoudra Pulse-figures of winds. Motific cells of brass. Both negotiate a stream of fractal-shaped tonality expanding: contracting. A blossom of fanfares folding into pulsating layers of tuned percussion, flutes and reeds. A dance-like episode absorbs a chorale. Four horns in close harmony against the continuing dance. A duet of differences flows into a cascade of chords in closed and open forms. The piano supports brass-flourishing figures before a final stillness. Heartstone In gentle reflection the solitary piano – a figure in a landscape of collapsed harmonic forms - presents in slow procession the essence of previous music.
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Morning has broken but she has not it had been a long night sinister fraught the stars were cut in lacerations of lace           stains of tears                       mark trails                    on her face mascara in circles mocking panda eyes multiple moments of almost self-demise wrists bound to           sadness, heart trussed to trust pain from crumbling illusions, plus that constant,           searing lust Now, on the floor, lying face down in what seemed               like blood, she starts to                  move around, as realization pours over in a thick, viscous flood: She can move her arms; for they were not                 really bound That gag in her mouth? it has dissolved into sound The sound of her voice as she gets up         from the floor opens the window bringing light             to the fore guttural noises escape deep                  from her throat and before she knows it, the room starts to float furniture circling as the energy takes         and she lets in the air              fresh as new fate her cuts balmed over          winds whipping up her hair marks from taut ropes smoothing over to bare and the light bursts in           in a blast, in a whoosh like bursts of starlight cutting in with a push they seep into shadows pulsing over the dark the howling rescinds           in an explosion of sparks blocks of pain that held her chained are knocked over and the lightstorm                 keeps coming her inner percussion just doesn't stop drumming       And as she flies through that window and unhinges the door             from its frame freedom             is now hers             forever to claim
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Aug 1, 2016
Aug 1, 2016 at 4:53 AM UTC
Escape Room
Morning has broken but she has not it had been a long night sinister fraught the stars were cut in lacerations of lace           stains of tears                       mark trails                    on her face mascara in circles mocking panda eyes multiple moments of almost self-demise wrists bound to           sadness, heart trussed to trust pain from crumbling illusions, plus that constant,           searing lust Now, on the floor, lying face down in what seemed               like blood, she starts to                  move around, as realization pours over in a thick, viscous flood: She can move her arms; for they were not                 really bound That gag in her mouth? it has dissolved into sound The sound of her voice as she gets up         from the floor opens the window bringing light             to the fore guttural noises escape deep                  from her throat and before she knows it, the room starts to float furniture circling as the energy takes         and she lets in the air              fresh as new fate her cuts balmed over          winds whipping up her hair marks from taut ropes smoothing over to bare and the light bursts in           in a blast, in a whoosh like bursts of starlight cutting in with a push they seep into shadows pulsing over the dark the howling rescinds           in an explosion of sparks blocks of pain that held her chained are knocked over and the lightstorm                 keeps coming her inner percussion just doesn't stop drumming       And as she flies through that window and unhinges the door             from its frame freedom             is now hers             forever to claim
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She may be our metronome mother But when was rhythm first discovered? Did ancient nomads hear it in the sounds of walking? Did they like how it sounded over them talking? Did they view the melody As a felony? And start to sway their hips To the crack of whips? Maybe that wasn't good enough Maybe we needed more stuff So we started crossing swords To create more violent chords That interested us more Violence has a catchy hook That can't be found in a book But started with a ***** look Until our brain begins to cook And we learn to love the beat As the harmony depletes We take concert seats At a darkness feast There's an iambic pentameter In the middle eastern theater That sounds all too familiar The troubling treble Of mothers screaming While superpowers meddle And innocence is leaving The reaper is reaping To a situation heating Empathy fleeting Fascist seating Rhythm beating Our soundproof homes Create acoustic cones That our cries can't escape Taking the container's shape Filling our mind Until we're blind And only see political teams Instead of childhood dreams We fall into a rhythm Based on deadly decisions With lethal precision Like surgical incisions That don't make us healthy But support the wealthy Who whistle a different tune That will **** us all soon And as the world crumbles Their bellies still rumble Creating a disruptive bass Their music we must face With an impossible grace Or else we'll be replaced I hear instruments of percussion Causing concussions Deflecting discussions Making us harmfully dance So we'll have a fair chance Which seems wrong at first glance But it's actually a pragmatic trance Provided by Mister Rhythm Who carries misery with him
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Apr 12, 2018
Apr 12, 2018 at 12:22 PM UTC
Rhythm
She may be our metronome mother But when was rhythm first discovered? Did ancient nomads hear it in the sounds of walking? Did they like how it sounded over them talking? Did they view the melody As a felony? And start to sway their hips To the crack of whips? Maybe that wasn't good enough Maybe we needed more stuff So we started crossing swords To create more violent chords That interested us more Violence has a catchy hook That can't be found in a book But started with a ***** look Until our brain begins to cook And we learn to love the beat As the harmony depletes We take concert seats At a darkness feast There's an iambic pentameter In the middle eastern theater That sounds all too familiar The troubling treble Of mothers screaming While superpowers meddle And innocence is leaving The reaper is reaping To a situation heating Empathy fleeting Fascist seating Rhythm beating Our soundproof homes Create acoustic cones That our cries can't escape Taking the container's shape Filling our mind Until we're blind And only see political teams Instead of childhood dreams We fall into a rhythm Based on deadly decisions With lethal precision Like surgical incisions That don't make us healthy But support the wealthy Who whistle a different tune That will **** us all soon And as the world crumbles Their bellies still rumble Creating a disruptive bass Their music we must face With an impossible grace Or else we'll be replaced I hear instruments of percussion Causing concussions Deflecting discussions Making us harmfully dance So we'll have a fair chance Which seems wrong at first glance But it's actually a pragmatic trance Provided by Mister Rhythm Who carries misery with him
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I am a sheet of music I start quietly building on the quartet of Strings the Violin starts a shimmering sound backed up with the viola the solemn sound of the cello and the ground breaking bass united in harmony There is a rest a break in note I am part of a Symphony an overture out of the heart of the music a quiet roll the timpani building in sound full orchestra building in amazing ****** Fireworks, Percussion, Brass, Woodwind, Strings Combined together in unity performing to the quality levels of sound the amazing Tchaikovsky in 1812 Creativity and Imagination shaking the core of the earth
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Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 1:01 PM UTC
1812 overture
I'm a fan of Vontaze Burfict Though he may not be perfect For he gives players concussions To continue the daily discussions Of the power of his percussion To receive a hall of fame induction That is where his value is derived So what do these penalties imply? That the referees have a preconceived notion of him And are preemptively looking to treat him grim Which gives his team a lesser chance to win Which makes the biased referees grin We are a country that idolizes quarterbacks Every other position we're quick to attack We only care about who has the ball And laughing at others when they fall We worship that which is shiny And view everything else as grimy Quarterbacks become celebrities incredulously While everyone else is treated impetuously The NFL is like America Politics makes it harder to watch The Patriots are boring and plain They win constantly The Bengals are entertaining and rough around the edges They show promise and potential that is never realized In a nation Of provocation I'd rather proudly call myself a bengal I know that seems an idealistic angle But Cincinnati provides no coziness or protection You must always avoid discriminate detection Of those that call themselves patriots That drive blue and white chariots And penalize players unnecessarily For African Americanning We really fumbled the ball Because of the ref's call That treats us unequally How they have fun evilly They can arbitrarily treat whoever however But a concussion will make them less clever
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Nov 12, 2017
Nov 12, 2017 at 5:31 PM UTC
Vontaze Burfict
I'm a fan of Vontaze Burfict Though he may not be perfect For he gives players concussions To continue the daily discussions Of the power of his percussion To receive a hall of fame induction That is where his value is derived So what do these penalties imply? That the referees have a preconceived notion of him And are preemptively looking to treat him grim Which gives his team a lesser chance to win Which makes the biased referees grin We are a country that idolizes quarterbacks Every other position we're quick to attack We only care about who has the ball And laughing at others when they fall We worship that which is shiny And view everything else as grimy Quarterbacks become celebrities incredulously While everyone else is treated impetuously The NFL is like America Politics makes it harder to watch The Patriots are boring and plain They win constantly The Bengals are entertaining and rough around the edges They show promise and potential that is never realized In a nation Of provocation I'd rather proudly call myself a bengal I know that seems an idealistic angle But Cincinnati provides no coziness or protection You must always avoid discriminate detection Of those that call themselves patriots That drive blue and white chariots And penalize players unnecessarily For African Americanning We really fumbled the ball Because of the ref's call That treats us unequally How they have fun evilly They can arbitrarily treat whoever however But a concussion will make them less clever
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I stand alone in the dark Fulton Street subway station, Breathing in the urine-scented air, Breathing out clouds of steam, A subway train rushes along, Not stopping, Biting at my eardrums, With the painful percussion, Of thousands of people, Silently screaming, I don’t want to see,      I don’t want to see,           I don’t want to see, The air fanned by each subway car, Rushes against me, Pushes the ozone and the smell of burnt brake linings, Into my nostrils, Along with the air, ****** through the iron gratings, Along miles of Brooklyn sidewalks, Carrying the odor of a prostitute’s festering sores, And the cries of a hungry, fatherless child in ***** diapers, And the hoarse moaning of a city councilman mentoring a young intern, And the cheap perfume of a fourteen year-old runaway, Turning $20 tricks in an alley, Smelling of stale Chinese food and wet dogs, And . . . I don’t want to see,      I don’t want to see,           I don’t want to see, . . . the smell of spoiled cabbage soup, And the rancid remains of a hotdog buried in sauerkraut, And putrid lilies lying in a gutter, All assaulting me, forcing me backwards, Until my back presses against, The grimy once-white tiles, That coldly burn their graffiti on my spine: God is dead, Bake a **** Whitey ***** **** the ******* I don’t want to see,      I don’t want to see,           I don’t want to see, The train finally passes, Its red eyes receding into the dank, Dark tunnel beyond the platform, The screeches and screams slowly die out, Their echoes ******* behind them, The smell, Of my, Warm *****
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Dec 23, 2018
Dec 23, 2018 at 10:54 PM UTC
The Subway
I stand alone in the dark Fulton Street subway station, Breathing in the urine-scented air, Breathing out clouds of steam, A subway train rushes along, Not stopping, Biting at my eardrums, With the painful percussion, Of thousands of people, Silently screaming, I don’t want to see,      I don’t want to see,           I don’t want to see, The air fanned by each subway car, Rushes against me, Pushes the ozone and the smell of burnt brake linings, Into my nostrils, Along with the air, ****** through the iron gratings, Along miles of Brooklyn sidewalks, Carrying the odor of a prostitute’s festering sores, And the cries of a hungry, fatherless child in ***** diapers, And the hoarse moaning of a city councilman mentoring a young intern, And the cheap perfume of a fourteen year-old runaway, Turning $20 tricks in an alley, Smelling of stale Chinese food and wet dogs, And . . . I don’t want to see,      I don’t want to see,           I don’t want to see, . . . the smell of spoiled cabbage soup, And the rancid remains of a hotdog buried in sauerkraut, And putrid lilies lying in a gutter, All assaulting me, forcing me backwards, Until my back presses against, The grimy once-white tiles, That coldly burn their graffiti on my spine: God is dead, Bake a **** Whitey ***** **** the ******* I don’t want to see,      I don’t want to see,           I don’t want to see, The train finally passes, Its red eyes receding into the dank, Dark tunnel beyond the platform, The screeches and screams slowly die out, Their echoes ******* behind them, The smell, Of my, Warm *****
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When I walk out my door, I hear the birds sing in silent symphony. At the bus stop, the sounds of low humming engines and rolling tires. Outstretched clouds of pure white follow horizons. The percussion of rain clinks on boulders, drumming quietly. Bee's wings play muted notes on flowers, sweetly collecting. There is so much more than radio static and dull ads full of ditties. Nature's ensemble invented the beat, rhythm, and the harmony.
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Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 2015 at 2:12 PM UTC
Our Silent Symphony
#1-- Legacy This city was my ancestors' town. We have laid tar on your horse-paths- a university grew from Riverview roots- you chopped firewood from the great-great grandfathers of these trees. #2-- saint cloud sounds like midnight, shoemaker: haunted cries. munsinger's melody: scurries & chirps. when TNT shatters granite at the quarry. pucks' percussion at the brooks center. buzz of summers on lake george's shore. somalia & scandinavia, singing.
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Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015 at 1:16 AM UTC
hometown poems
My percussion teacher, fresh out of surgery: Going down the line of kids at attention - Checking the attention - my percussion teacher In a wheelchair gliding down the line - Fresh out of surgery - sliding down the line Of kids at attention with heads bowed. My percussion teacher with the aching back; My percussion teacher, fresh out of surgery (With the pill keeper on her keychain) Wheeling down the line of insecure children - Checking the attention - my percussion teacher Calling "Chin up, chest out, back straight," (Fresh out of back surgery) going down the line, "Don't lock your knees, be proud." My percussion teacher weeks after surgery With the back pain and the brave face, At a Christmas parade My percussion teacher gliding beside the drums Chair whirring between beats, my teacher Whispering, "roll step, back straight, chin up, Be proud." My teacher in her home at New Year's, Recovered and childish, months after surgery "Look, I'm taller now? Wanna see my scar?" Yes I want to see it, yes of course - that scar, That pride twisting pink across your chest, yes. Yes, because your chin is up, And your back is straight.
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Apr 3, 2012
Apr 3, 2012 at 10:01 PM UTC
Posture
The love bug A venomous bat here to **** away all of what I know a ****** of all hopes here to **** away all of what I desire I remember her teeth clenched onto my neck and ripping off my skin here to **** away all of who I am is there anything more insane than love? now this infection is spreading throughout my entire body! everything that I saw as real has been ****** away from me. now my mind is transforming, all I can think of is, "what am I willing to do to earn your affection?" I am willing to top Van Gough I'll cut out my heart for you put it on some strings and proudly place it on your petite neck and when I get near, I will finally show you what my insides feel like and when I get near, you will feel the seizure of beats pound against your chest and when I get near, my heart will hit, hack and **** against you and when I get near, you will finally feel what I feel. this is how I will stop the madness, because when I get near I will finally feel what you do, Nothing Nothing Nothing A repeated beat that will fade into beautiful emptiness Nothing Nothing Nothing I will wear a plastic smile Nothing Nothing Nothing I will have a plastic heart Nothing Nothing Nothing Those beats will get to comforting for me I will kiss you desperately to feel those soothing rhythmic beats the beatings we will share Together in unison. For the first time my words will hush and my actions will have a rhythm a steadily increasing pound like a drum-line. there is no way to feel this Fantastic! that ****** of two lips colliding all I have to do is close my eyes and believe the pictures in my head are true. you are my dream girl but my dreams are a virus. reality ****** away from me and because of this I gave you all of me all of what I am all of what I desire all of what I know I hope you continue to wear that necklace and feel my heartbeat thud against your chest Thud, Thud, Thud against your chest, whenever I think of you. So you will finally know how great that music feels on your body. that light percussion of my little drummer will always beat for you Thud, Thud, Thud and I will finally feel what you do, Nothing Nothing Nothing
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Aug 14, 2012
Aug 14, 2012 at 3:15 AM UTC
The Infection of Madness
The love bug A venomous bat here to **** away all of what I know a ****** of all hopes here to **** away all of what I desire I remember her teeth clenched onto my neck and ripping off my skin here to **** away all of who I am is there anything more insane than love? now this infection is spreading throughout my entire body! everything that I saw as real has been ****** away from me. now my mind is transforming, all I can think of is, "what am I willing to do to earn your affection?" I am willing to top Van Gough I'll cut out my heart for you put it on some strings and proudly place it on your petite neck and when I get near, I will finally show you what my insides feel like and when I get near, you will feel the seizure of beats pound against your chest and when I get near, my heart will hit, hack and **** against you and when I get near, you will finally feel what I feel. this is how I will stop the madness, because when I get near I will finally feel what you do, Nothing Nothing Nothing A repeated beat that will fade into beautiful emptiness Nothing Nothing Nothing I will wear a plastic smile Nothing Nothing Nothing I will have a plastic heart Nothing Nothing Nothing Those beats will get to comforting for me I will kiss you desperately to feel those soothing rhythmic beats the beatings we will share Together in unison. For the first time my words will hush and my actions will have a rhythm a steadily increasing pound like a drum-line. there is no way to feel this Fantastic! that ****** of two lips colliding all I have to do is close my eyes and believe the pictures in my head are true. you are my dream girl but my dreams are a virus. reality ****** away from me and because of this I gave you all of me all of what I am all of what I desire all of what I know I hope you continue to wear that necklace and feel my heartbeat thud against your chest Thud, Thud, Thud against your chest, whenever I think of you. So you will finally know how great that music feels on your body. that light percussion of my little drummer will always beat for you Thud, Thud, Thud and I will finally feel what you do, Nothing Nothing Nothing
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Run rotten, for things have gotten out of hand. Turn coat ducking, torture got him singing and eating outta my hand. Getting scraped by the beater like youse a percussion instrument; maybe that’s why a group of people are called a band? For we all play our part to either be an influence or to be influenced. Yet we won’t know anything if you never venture into the forest and meet the temptress. When one experiences all six senses, when in present tenses, which then puts the body through stresses. That makes the mind flood with guesses that clouds up our lenses. But that’s just what war is like for one is always in the trenches. Whilst other’s sit on benches, but each choice brings rewards and consequences. Which bears questions on what your quest is? To run free or to be held back by white picket fences? For being hard pressed brings out either killers or medics. To choose to be real or synthetic. To become abstract or symmetric. However, things aren’t always so metric. So be wary of being a critique for just like branches of mathematics in arithmetic, We have many great qualities but when in a group we can become manipulated.
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Jan 15, 2019
Jan 15, 2019 at 3:45 PM UTC
The Mobius Effect
'A triangle on the mount of mercury is certainly an auspicious sign' Thumping percussion of a native beat in my head, a gyrating hindsight The evening streams down pouring streaks of grey and mangled orange Walking past a bicycle chained to railings front wheel mangled into a rough square Squaring a circle, huh? How did that happen? two thumps and a sonant beat...and again... I see you sipping latte by Nero. Mangled, stream out of your eyes many coloured triangles rushing, wheeling at me. Vibrant beat, gyrating bottoms. The mercury is soaring. Ululations. The night-witch has charmed the city in her cloak. Stars, oh, I see mangled triangles out of her hat.
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Sep 14, 2013
Sep 14, 2013 at 11:52 PM UTC
Palmistry for beginners
The tension is mounting, standing in line Bass reverberates, the sound of things to come Manic conversation and body language animation Staying awake until we see the sun. Enter the venue greeted by sticky collective body heat The treble of the onslaught of noise now palpable Without thinking, i begin to move my feet Becoming one with the masses of bodies moving in unison. The milk of the night, one in my hand from a mate I drink it down as I become expectant Excitedly waiting for my body to be seized And exited by a juggernaut of positive emotions. Every stranger is a one minute friend Micro moments of love become my guide for the night The music sounds like the songs of the gods The rhythm and percussion of an underground ritual. Every touch and taste and sound is heightened An emanating aura of love surrounds the crowd Smiles, laughs, hugs and high-fives Throwing shapes and boogieing down. As the party creator closes down the night Masses pour outside drowned by early sunlight All in search of a beach or after-hours haunt To continue on their hedonic treadmill.
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Feb 16, 2014
Feb 16, 2014 at 2:27 PM UTC
Weekend
The shadow moves above my eyes. I'm blindfolded from sight, handcuffed from touch. The warm feeling of these lips upon my skin - ******* nibbling, biting from this excessive ****** lust and the crude tongue, playing a lecherous percussion of the forbidden dance on my ***** and ******** all this a tantalizing damnation, then this weapon I've been wanting, needing, craving is punched into me, pulling back and forth from horny-lovers lane. It lingers, simmers, agonizingly feeding my sexually crazed desires. I feel as if I'm crawling, brushing, climaxing my ***** and all that is around me. I let out a slow, mournful growl as I'm drawn to a constellated galaxy of ******** rush. Then I  release myself through the milky-way returning to Earth, back in the beige-walled room. The blindfold is now off: free to sight, free to touch. I take a deep breath, look down upon my *** - I want to see him, the Mozart of my ****** pleasure; but instead I find her sitting there ******* her finger,wearing nothing but a smirk.
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Oct 20, 2018
Oct 20, 2018 at 6:03 AM UTC
Facade
Rock and roll wheels thump and trill a roller skating rhythm. Z-ray suits light colors all a-glowing. With the greatest of ease roller skaters' moods dazzel us with wheel music.
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Jun 17, 2014
Jun 17, 2014 at 11:47 AM UTC
Percussion Play on Wheels
Shriek of humanity The cries of innocence Ahh yes, this song You don’t hear it? Tell me, what does she sound like? The Symphony of string and percussion The pounding of her heart like tip tap of water Nearly empty Thinning strings as she wails with the violin Angry, Yearning for an audience Harmonizing the dissonance she is struck with It’s almost beautiful Chaos that is in tune with the hearts of men A song for you A mimic of you Muffled by the mirrors we build Allowing only the slightest murmurs A mere echo of their subverted lives We can’t face the music Fearing that we’d see our blemishes Our faces crept away for centuries A false lifestyle In a carnival of plastic mirrors Everyday the world is asking New questions keep arising Many still left unanswered One day in your life, she’ll run out of breath The silence will choke you You’re loosing something You’re not yourself No longer spoon fed by her patience But you’re still filthy rich Yet something’s still missing Maybe then you’ll be curious What could be playing in that song? How can we find out?
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May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 at 9:35 AM UTC
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