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"tonality" poems
first I smell myself. the deep bass tonality of my musk, hot, creamy, sweetness unique, of coffee and creamy, my owned sweat oiled secretions massaged into her skin emplaced by vigorous parts rubbing and tongue caressing, under the fading shadows of my glancing, desirous admirings then I smell herself. sinking sunset glimpses of last nights parfume parfait, scattered in random strategic locations architecturally planned, some flavors come over me like modest waves, others spelunking found in crevices, cracks and caves, where humans tread in guileless search of guiltless pleasure then I smell our sharings. lemon and thyme, paprika, sea salt and pepper, a basted rub laid upon animal skin consuming, and consumed, the vinaigrette balsamic and California yellow raisins, pine nuts, decorating leaves of red soil spinach and spicy arugula, word salads, so miraculously ingenious, you swear off eating flesh then I smell our combinations. the air conditioned atmosphere that blends us properly chilled, the olive oils pressed from two colored differing skins, the mortal and pestle finely grinding our own fresh crumbled dirt, appearing in places where dirt is wet panko crumbs encrusting us, our combined liquidity, shaken and stirred, drying in martini tandem it is 8:17am and this recipe of reciprocity, at its most pungent peaking, for soon raining waterfalls of potable city water and the sophistry of French soap, the pseudoscience of modern chemical shampoo, together erasing, scrubbing away this poems aromatherapy tapestry, your perplexed complexing nostrils will mock you once more, for ever disbelieving, thinking you could no longer write of only love poetry that crested high above the trite Friday, March 29 2019
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Mar 29, 2019
Mar 29, 2019 at 8:40 AM UTC
The Aroma of Us
first I smell myself. the deep bass tonality of my musk, hot, creamy, sweetness unique, of coffee and creamy, my owned sweat oiled secretions massaged into her skin emplaced by vigorous parts rubbing and tongue caressing, under the fading shadows of my glancing, desirous admirings then I smell herself. sinking sunset glimpses of last nights parfume parfait, scattered in random strategic locations architecturally planned, some flavors come over me like modest waves, others spelunking found in crevices, cracks and caves, where humans tread in guileless search of guiltless pleasure then I smell our sharings. lemon and thyme, paprika, sea salt and pepper, a basted rub laid upon animal skin consuming, and consumed, the vinaigrette balsamic and California yellow raisins, pine nuts, decorating leaves of red soil spinach and spicy arugula, word salads, so miraculously ingenious, you swear off eating flesh then I smell our combinations. the air conditioned atmosphere that blends us properly chilled, the olive oils pressed from two colored differing skins, the mortal and pestle finely grinding our own fresh crumbled dirt, appearing in places where dirt is wet panko crumbs encrusting us, our combined liquidity, shaken and stirred, drying in martini tandem it is 8:17am and this recipe of reciprocity, at its most pungent peaking, for soon raining waterfalls of potable city water and the sophistry of French soap, the pseudoscience of modern chemical shampoo, together erasing, scrubbing away this poems aromatherapy tapestry, your perplexed complexing nostrils will mock you once more, for ever disbelieving, thinking you could no longer write of only love poetry that crested high above the trite Friday, March 29 2019
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Near, near are my lucid dreams. Sultry sleep, augmenting realty Today, nothing will be as it seems. Flashes of translucent, magnified beams, Lighting lingers in treacherous tonality Near, near are my lucid dreams. The water flows in upside-down streams, Rivers rage in confused commonalities Today, nothing will be as it seems. The mechanic roar of howling screams, Shrapnel shrieking in utter infinities. Near, near are my lucid dreams. Pulleys construct convoluted schemes While pollution parades in notorious normality Today, nothing will be as it seems. Awake. I go forth, my mind again seamed. Awake. I go back, into a world of formality. Near, near are my lucid dreams Today, nothing will be as it seems.
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Jun 23, 2014
Jun 23, 2014 at 12:19 AM UTC
Near, Near Are My Lucid Dreams
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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(This poem was discovered etched/burnt into the interior woodwork of a viking ship of around 800AD, discovered in the north of England in the '60s. Quite possibly from the northernmost islands around the area now referred to as Archangel, and originally written in what became known as Runic/Russo Scandinavian, it nevertheless resonates clear Saxon/German tonality. Given that it is one of the first examples of early Runic, and indeed that the actual letter-shapes are unclear, the poem has been reproduced below, using broad phonetic license. As far as can be determined, the content appears to be a somewhat ribald message from the ships leader to his wife. It was not uncommon for women/wives to accompany their men folk on long voyages. Given cramped conditions aboard, the conditions were likely to be insanitary and it is this condition that informs the subject). WJL Das andrs zu-almen su-cara Archezum des hafta confagra Der ecra zu alpe En pecra nachte schalpe Viel ondra der zulpa te bag-ra Und zortem pur ordour cloabera Eh-min-te ah solbra schactarar Sul-phereth zum tinctum Abroath ah den penk-tum Bai anthe con anthe ebactah-ra Zorbuhr genkst canke zer vilk-um Solginster zep ecra der nep-ehlcome Calmen-de ser paarte Eh zin bah die faarte Confide ah can-de zum schtinc-tulm
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Nov 5, 2012
Nov 5, 2012 at 5:23 AM UTC
Arcum Nars te Incrum Sulfurum (The Eating of Eggs on Long Voyages)
~ *In her sulking-place alone and naked framed in soft sepia —the vintage, harlequin hue at this supposed faded hour she sits looking back on memory she sits and stares into the boudoir mirror at herself at her embonpoint yes, at these ******* —at their landscape how they fall (like Niagara) where they point (like a compass) what they tell (so fondly) when pressed together about their time —their work and play towers on the precipice of judgment both callous and uncharitable if the mirror truly be her reflection her vision is turned around as illusion —a study of tonality and tolerance for one's own flesh the room an invitation or perhaps a lockaway where she even keeps secrets from herself* ~
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Apr 26, 2021
Apr 26, 2021 at 10:37 AM UTC
Avenoir
It is so measured that rising arpeggio, only to fall and rise again in quicker values, through the dominant seventh to the heartache moment of that minor ninth, a very apogee of dissonance. Then it goes higher still to the fifth, holding to that Phrygian harmony before returning to the tonic minor and a measured fall in the bass. This is a deliberate descent to the sub-mediant, and Bach’s touch of magic, the equivalence with the dominant minor ninth. But then he gives us hope: an extended and joyful play through sequences that rise and fall within each bar, to rest finally on the mediant’s echo of that opening, that measured rise and the quickening fall. We have hardly smiled with relief when Bach pulls us back into the insecurity of the dominant of the subdominant, that V of IV acting like a bridge to a long, long discourse in the dominant, a pedal E holding firmly to itself whilst rising arpeggios and falling decorations and sequences pull and pull through innocently related keys. Longer and longer play the rising passages until short motives of imitation interrupt, treble to bass, tenor to alto, until:  a first inversion arpeggio of the dominant seventh measures out the opening rhythm. This happens twice in short succession, as though holding the progress of the music to account. A questioning perhaps before a four-fold sequence asserts the dominant and a chorded caesura. There is a pregnant, though faintly resonant silence as Bach spins the dice of tonality and chooses the subdominant to bring the music towards a waiting Allemande. The music moves through a play of subdominant to dominant, minor to major, the mix of flattened fifth and flattened ninth. It is those intervals that determine Bach as the father of ambiguity in the 20C school of jazz harmony, Arpeggio then a falling scale, and repeat and repeat again, but moving ever higher by sequence. At last five chords – merely a shorthand for closure via the expectation of a right display of the performer’s improvisatory prowess. They prepare us reverently for the tonic minor before the stately Allemande leads the music into the elegant steps of its walking dance.
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Jan 5, 2013
Jan 5, 2013 at 3:13 AM UTC
On playing the Prelude from Bach’s Second Suite for Violoncello
It is so measured that rising arpeggio, only to fall and rise again in quicker values, through the dominant seventh to the heartache moment of that minor ninth, a very apogee of dissonance. Then it goes higher still to the fifth, holding to that Phrygian harmony before returning to the tonic minor and a measured fall in the bass. This is a deliberate descent to the sub-mediant, and Bach’s touch of magic, the equivalence with the dominant minor ninth. But then he gives us hope: an extended and joyful play through sequences that rise and fall within each bar, to rest finally on the mediant’s echo of that opening, that measured rise and the quickening fall. We have hardly smiled with relief when Bach pulls us back into the insecurity of the dominant of the subdominant, that V of IV acting like a bridge to a long, long discourse in the dominant, a pedal E holding firmly to itself whilst rising arpeggios and falling decorations and sequences pull and pull through innocently related keys. Longer and longer play the rising passages until short motives of imitation interrupt, treble to bass, tenor to alto, until:  a first inversion arpeggio of the dominant seventh measures out the opening rhythm. This happens twice in short succession, as though holding the progress of the music to account. A questioning perhaps before a four-fold sequence asserts the dominant and a chorded caesura. There is a pregnant, though faintly resonant silence as Bach spins the dice of tonality and chooses the subdominant to bring the music towards a waiting Allemande. The music moves through a play of subdominant to dominant, minor to major, the mix of flattened fifth and flattened ninth. It is those intervals that determine Bach as the father of ambiguity in the 20C school of jazz harmony, Arpeggio then a falling scale, and repeat and repeat again, but moving ever higher by sequence. At last five chords – merely a shorthand for closure via the expectation of a right display of the performer’s improvisatory prowess. They prepare us reverently for the tonic minor before the stately Allemande leads the music into the elegant steps of its walking dance.
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Of immaterial vision birthed in mind. Of spirit annihilating the selves, of calling it plan. The one- a semblance scattered on deck space refracts on reflections of the reactions of tokens of the carnivalesque, of the hunger artists, of phenomenon- which may or may not exist depending on reflective surface of the true self, of the motion of tides, mocks motion in body, of obsession. The tonality of the "be" and the "is" and the "will be" is deafened by the "I am," by the Ohm. Of shuddering and implanting embraces, of blessing on every ember of cleanliness that is true self, of the oneself that exists above selective memory, not draft of time arrow but the material existence of dream, not disembodied but embodied. Of breeding, of circumstance and forking fourth dimension prison terms, of crowd control, of she wolves and their feral children, of forceps interpolating material reality of conception, of Dreamtime, of pain, of pleasure, where they are relations- of skin perversely hanging, dually, gratifying and sullying- Fraying beautiful disasters that react to invisible ripples I, the oneself, implore you to awaken in your utility and then outside of it. Take those boot straps and bend the bars of confinement with them. Chisel and sculpt light into a fabrication of quantum of action. Celebrate the ordinary and expose it. Of stargazed caustics, of the early universe. I stand awake as not the expression of design and no longer connected to Earth by my roots but awake inside cocoon, entrapped behind slits, of alien cage otherness. The Akh beseeches ownership of the Ba I want play dice with god and end in draw. I am Sekhmet-Wadjet who dwells in the west of heaven, I am Sahyt among the souls of Of.
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Oct 4, 2012
Oct 4, 2012 at 1:29 AM UTC
Of
Of immaterial vision birthed in mind. Of spirit annihilating the selves, of calling it plan. The one- a semblance scattered on deck space refracts on reflections of the reactions of tokens of the carnivalesque, of the hunger artists, of phenomenon- which may or may not exist depending on reflective surface of the true self, of the motion of tides, mocks motion in body, of obsession. The tonality of the "be" and the "is" and the "will be" is deafened by the "I am," by the Ohm. Of shuddering and implanting embraces, of blessing on every ember of cleanliness that is true self, of the oneself that exists above selective memory, not draft of time arrow but the material existence of dream, not disembodied but embodied. Of breeding, of circumstance and forking fourth dimension prison terms, of crowd control, of she wolves and their feral children, of forceps interpolating material reality of conception, of Dreamtime, of pain, of pleasure, where they are relations- of skin perversely hanging, dually, gratifying and sullying- Fraying beautiful disasters that react to invisible ripples I, the oneself, implore you to awaken in your utility and then outside of it. Take those boot straps and bend the bars of confinement with them. Chisel and sculpt light into a fabrication of quantum of action. Celebrate the ordinary and expose it. Of stargazed caustics, of the early universe. I stand awake as not the expression of design and no longer connected to Earth by my roots but awake inside cocoon, entrapped behind slits, of alien cage otherness. The Akh beseeches ownership of the Ba I want play dice with god and end in draw. I am Sekhmet-Wadjet who dwells in the west of heaven, I am Sahyt among the souls of Of.
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I dream of you And the deep tonality you echo The sincerity etched to my bone So that I will never forget the fact I dream of you And the pudgy child that came running Always in the background, always full of wonder Laughing at things I will never forget I dream of you And the sweet nothings you whisper on the dial The excitement that takes over when I read your letters The constant reminder of the words I will never forget I dream of you And the verbal abuses we bicker back and forth dripped with regret A cat and mouse chase waiting to fight for the death until one surrenders Forfeiting the chase I will never forget I dream of you And the insecurity of your constant necessity of reassurance Temporary amnesia you always had towards my own honesty Forgetting to tell you the words I will never forget I dream of you And the opportunities I will never use to convince you Never will I be able to touch your skin or kiss your lips I will never forget the last time you said “I love you”.
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 6:07 AM UTC
I Dream of You
Why is the primal question. *This was written one week primary to the real encounter*: Language difference enables my poignant ponderings to hide among pink puffy tonality of your beloved mother's tongue. To dwelve smooth and constructively conducted within your howlin' domesticated vowels. I so become wonder writer smitten softly, touched by pleasant words of other writers. Not suffering. As I do in my original vaccinity of no distance. Clouds and thunder collapse into my deepest core. Tearing me there at non acceptance. I tear my poems. And throw them into the abyss. Of no re turnin'.
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 10:48 AM UTC
Thank you stranger
¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ . . . of incantations in                         cantankerous philosophy!                 Of these lying liabilities,                        what startling objection, so accosting, has exhausted me? More so than     named quite unfortunate atrocity!   Shall hordes of thought be accursed by degrees of displeasing hostility   such that satiated curiosity                 be evermore abashed in me?                                 “. . . but I have admonished thee,”                                                             said he, this subtle, blackened tenant             with a tin man's tonality.                   This paper drum that bends to sing does beg of him the courtesy;           yet, acrid rhetoric singes the hair     with unfavorable flintlock fidelity. His evasive guarantee then               upends the pores relentlessly.         *“These words will compel a poor                     foresight to bleed in the fray           as cascading tears cast their weight                               upon cheek in dismay . . .”* . . . to quash the cypress toxin           of a caustic potpourri—                     a dissembling toupee                         to one's balding reality.                     O lasting opacity                                 of such poignant translucency,         this flagrant serendipity,                   once spawned, must always be?     Possibly; though, I cannot count     how many sets see dawns at sea.                         “. . . but I have astonished thee,”             said he through this Möbius rebuttal           like some soap on TV,                       though, it’s ne'er some rerun           what’s cliché wants creativity.         The veiling lee of his lofty marquee      beclouds that one pyrrhic mystery— that now-clandestine oblation         of one bless'ed unanimity.               *“Akin to a twin whose soul’s                     one sin was mine to portray.           ‘I’ll pay ne’er a thought!’                               curs’ed common naïveté . . .”* . . . and yet, that's cause to bend     reverent knee, not to thee,               but to that which mine                     eye's sole endeavor is to see.           “So, leave me be!”                             I lament, ostensibly,                         “Lest that passage fall paved           by none other than me.”                 Perhaps the Second World war     is just my cup of tea.                                           “. . . or perhaps this darkness is me,” said he
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 5:00 PM UTC
The Dearth in Discerning
¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ . . . of incantations in                         cantankerous philosophy!                 Of these lying liabilities,                        what startling objection, so accosting, has exhausted me? More so than     named quite unfortunate atrocity!   Shall hordes of thought be accursed by degrees of displeasing hostility   such that satiated curiosity                 be evermore abashed in me?                                 “. . . but I have admonished thee,”                                                             said he, this subtle, blackened tenant             with a tin man's tonality.                   This paper drum that bends to sing does beg of him the courtesy;           yet, acrid rhetoric singes the hair     with unfavorable flintlock fidelity. His evasive guarantee then               upends the pores relentlessly.         *“These words will compel a poor                     foresight to bleed in the fray           as cascading tears cast their weight                               upon cheek in dismay . . .”* . . . to quash the cypress toxin           of a caustic potpourri—                     a dissembling toupee                         to one's balding reality.                     O lasting opacity                                 of such poignant translucency,         this flagrant serendipity,                   once spawned, must always be?     Possibly; though, I cannot count     how many sets see dawns at sea.                         “. . . but I have astonished thee,”             said he through this Möbius rebuttal           like some soap on TV,                       though, it’s ne'er some rerun           what’s cliché wants creativity.         The veiling lee of his lofty marquee      beclouds that one pyrrhic mystery— that now-clandestine oblation         of one bless'ed unanimity.               *“Akin to a twin whose soul’s                     one sin was mine to portray.           ‘I’ll pay ne’er a thought!’                               curs’ed common naïveté . . .”* . . . and yet, that's cause to bend     reverent knee, not to thee,               but to that which mine                     eye's sole endeavor is to see.           “So, leave me be!”                             I lament, ostensibly,                         “Lest that passage fall paved           by none other than me.”                 Perhaps the Second World war     is just my cup of tea.                                           “. . . or perhaps this darkness is me,” said he
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the instant, the instance, is that your body? the clear cleansing storefront windows ask for clarification. is that your body, presently? is that your body presentably? just in that secular instant, again, over, the body’s inquisition clarifies, asking, requesting in a babel of foreign languages, repeat after me! each window pane that follows repeats the query, the themes in each, tiny variations, the variables of rhythm, timbre, harmony, engine timing minute minutiae alterations, in that passing milli-instant, each a separate instance for each separate pane. in every instance.   in every language. the accusations tonality oscillates in wavelength pitch. quest nonetheless similar,      is that your body? all the replies are mirrored reciprocal. that was my past. this my present. the next, a future vision. the here, the now, all of it, each a flashcard. the insistence! *when your body falls finally upon the sidewalks concrete filthy city Persian tapestry, the shameful answer tastes always the same.* always the same.
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May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 at 8:50 AM UTC
the instant, the instance, is that your body?
Summary of Today PREFACE An artist of most kinds can concur the imperial dynasty of ruling with Absolute Control of the medium from a higher mind Tapped in vessel flows the beauty of free form I like this vantage point over my domain Here I prefer to remain, power of my dominion dominates through me to give ordered direction to my artistry SYNOPSIS I wonder what undercurrent pulled me to write with such Tonality It appeared to be centered in the Theme of Revolutionary Rebellion some kind of Helter Skelter Warning with Sincere Stance boldly stating my Position in the light of things to come, coming, arrived and waiting ADDITIONAL NOTES I have recently reclaimed my power of authority over my body Body and Mind being facets of the same Gemstone that is me. I had been in a being state, a child feeling, for a period, not quite able for autonomous activity I studied closely, learning about this being, but recently have claimed Adult Control I believe today was a loud coming out party for my Adult, in Control, Ready Values in Check, Convictions in Check, Energy in Check, Child snugged in tight, Protected she will come along and see what her future self is all about ...And it will be Good.
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 11:50 PM UTC
Summary of my Day
I sit at my computer And stare at the screen Enveloped in the monotonous repetitions running through my head Words of doubt and fear And sometimes joy All in a single tonality Leaving my emotions meaningless
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May 15, 2016
May 15, 2016 at 10:07 PM UTC
honestly titles just are overrated
No. I say no To the things you say. But also, more importantly, How you choose to say them. With the distance of tropical rains And foreign tongues of tonality Trees of exotic grains Moist with fragrant oils You speak as though you're unfulfilled An empty field of fallen flowers Full of lost beauty A shame. You once spoke like spring, Rain upon my roots No. I say no, Not anymore.
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Mar 7, 2017
Mar 7, 2017 at 10:41 PM UTC
what is right to talk about
expect a change with the free range exchange a change in tonality a strange irrationality back to basics and acids to the tests with the litmus wooden language tries to wipe away the past ends up leaving traces of the past alas names mean nought when they think we bought that stairway to heaven they must forget the zeppelin focus here a bit on the hour of eleven we won't try to **** it nor try to spill it just keep it quiet continue the riot wondering why patriot doesn't rhyme with riot the sloth will know as the deer taps his toe so too will the earth and the sea and the sky no matter how obscure we will let the ambient data endure wooden language tried to wipe away the past ends up revealing its gold alas
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 11:38 PM UTC
metamorphosis
safe & sound in sounds beloved <> *in a chalk dust soft whisper, barely bit more than an eyelash fluttering tonality, she requested her playlist, favoritism shown, partial to certain poems, poet, safety in the sounds of familiarity, melded into verses and poems “works,” how she nat/notated them, smiling, for they were not works, but labors, safe sounds, on a palette synthesized from emotive words coloring all of her drumming, thrumming skin beating, eyes singing, lips tingle reverberating, echoing my weeping I read her the collected, the sure ones, made to eye-tear, her lips, pleasure poutiest before turning corners upward, in a haven’t-smiled-for-awhile, a plush blush so pale red, pores of pavé chips of rubies glistening each in a tearful diamond setting one more stanza to remember, mark the page, the collective of this moment, what shall we call it, this essence of timing of lifetimes glory glorious; a hallelujah crossover, suggested, hints of death after life, no, I nod, no, vociferously gifting it to her as a quiet, safe and sound, safe in sounds beloved, words, beloved, beloved for being loved and she, beloved* 10/08/19 nyc early morning
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Oct 10, 2019
Oct 10, 2019 at 11:07 AM UTC
safe & sound in sounds beloved
Suddenly the humble There is one eye again Smears Smoothly down and quick Spaced The silent teeth Graveyard slabs All scared to white Bright full-moon night Glaring like a naked bone Water taps and drips Shaped so perfectly cold This bleakest of light Casting long and sharp and deep The wailing pathetic Are silver shards of shapes The graveyard owl screeches This must be someone's dream Nowhere to go Still strong currents pull The places of despair Towards and away The tonality of moods Warming layers Blending with the background It's nobody's business A sigh that trembles Lives balancing on whims And then a silver-grey sky Soaring on a song The grace of an artless child Smiles your eyes to smiles The crystal tumbling stream hallucinations of diamond water The endless beginning Sliding on rolling moments Changing even truth Even truth                 By Phil Roberts
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Apr 8, 2017
Apr 8, 2017 at 4:42 PM UTC
HERE BE DRAGONS
There is a wound that sits behind the eye Triad tonality, a fearsome sigh Plucks a ****** chord Lyric’d by the word “why?” Acid fingers grin in lust Anticipating another ****** into the belly Of time gone by Hot skin taut and merely waiting For suicides to release their hands In the chain their concert makes Eternities in some hellish waste lived in only seconds. How strong the forces are! So steep a severing blow! Still fresh a carrion scar, festering miles still to go To beset the pinkest eves This blade of regret Within a greater narrative, Tiny little vignettes Armed in fashion of drunken odes Those promises sworn to keep Accompanied by such pathos woes Accoutered, finally, in weep. Brandished when it’s not so fresh: This minor paring of my flesh Gleaming in the summer laughs To caterwaul my gaff, or plural if you like The humor undercuts enormity Or screams on shafts in biting breezes This lived-in clime I, this prey, displeases. Unsheathed, the memories, in jovial acts of war Besiege, beleaguer, the since-immured True blood and guts long-since obscured By friendliness, camaraderie Intentions jester-pure Trick suppressing-shields raised, jaundiced wills will not deflect No blade or arrow of regret.
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Jul 4, 2014
Jul 4, 2014 at 12:52 AM UTC
Blade of Regret
you scare me, a hidden gem i am afraid of what could happen i wonder where you walk and i wonder what you think has the cross corrupted you who has turned you so cold i will be there when you get your wings and the soothing echo of those classical sounds will pass into a new choir of faith and acceptance maybe then when all becomes bright, i will see your eyes for what they truly are a black ocean with enough depth to deceive me into thinking i am only stepping into a shallow pool a bitter tongue with the tonality of an angel you can rest your voice as the tears take over dómine fili unigénite, iesu christe, dómine deus, agnus dei, fílius patris, qui tollis peccáta mundi, miserére nobis; qui tollis peccáta mundi, súscipe deprecatiónem nostram i will be with you until you find yourself if you are lost i will be lost with you
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 8:55 PM UTC
mister religion
Suddenly the humble There is one eye again Smears Smoothly down and quick Spaced The silent teeth Graveyard slabs All scared to white Bright full-moon night Glaring like a naked bone Water taps and drips Shaped so perfectly cold This bleakest of light Casting long and sharp and deep The wailing pathetic Are silver shards of shapes The graveyard owl screeches This must be someone's dream Nowhere to go Still strong currents pull The places of despair Towards and away The tonality of moods Warming layers Blending with the background It's nobody's business A sigh that trembles Lives balancing on whims And then a silver-grey sky Soaring on a song The grace of an artless child Smiles your eyes to smiles The crystal tumbling stream hallucinations of diamond water The endless beginning Sliding on rolling moments Changing even truth Even truth By Phil Roberts
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Feb 4, 2016
Feb 4, 2016 at 5:52 AM UTC
HERE BE DRAGONS
Suddenly the humble There is one eye again Smears Smoothly down and quick Spaced The silent teeth Graveyard slabs All scared to white Bright full-moon night Glaring like a naked bone Water taps and drips Shaped so perfectly cold This bleakest of light Casting long and sharp and deep The wailing pathetic Are silver shards of shapes The graveyard owl screeches This must be someone's dream Nowhere to go Still strong currents pull The places of despair Towards and away The tonality of moods Warming layers Blending with the background It's nobody's business A sigh that trembles Lives balancing on whims And then a silver-grey sky Soaring on a song The grace of an artless child Smiles your eyes to smiles The crystal tumbling stream hallucinations of diamond water The endless beginning Sliding on rolling moments Changing even truth Even truth By Phil Roberts
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Jul 30, 2015
Jul 30, 2015 at 4:28 AM UTC
HERE BE DRAGONS
It's been months since I've last been The water took the melody line And destruction became the harmony Leaving dissonance in its wake And trees bent to play that Minor tune Mud rose inch after inch, Outlining the beat of this Soaked symphony It's in duple meter No scratch that, it was in triple, The tempo was about 200 waves per minute The screech of wood scraping Wood had short solos With arpeggios And the sound of sirens and Screaming crescendoed this Soaked symphony The different pitches were so ranged in tonality that people had No chance to save the time To pick up things they need The splash splash splash was the Ostenato in the background Perhaps a pedal tone And the drip drip drip Made anyone who heard the piece shudder so violently They were shivering and Quivering Like an arrow shot from a now Thus the effect of the Soaked symphony Played in the orchestra pit of Lyons Colorado
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 3:11 PM UTC
Lyons
How is it possible? That in your eyes... I have found, that my music Resonates As hard, As the shining of the stars. Never a human show me That music can be found In the warm of mortal arms. Melodies fly over the skies When I think, on those eyes. Now, that the light is just white... My music has no life, You took the colors apart. I can not decorate The rhythm of your lips. They faded and, I can not paint them. I can not hold those hands anymore Indicating the tempo. So, I will go find you. The world that is below Does not scare me at all The smell of your dry tears Is singing me to where I should be. After I finish my last piece, I will trust in my ears and, I will bring you with me. So, we both shall compose, The greatest symphony of love. I have figured out that If I play this twelve row.   The doors of the underworld will open, so I won’t feel this cold. Every night after you closed your eyes... I have been dreaming with: dramatic purple Melodies.    Sophisticated       Rhythms. And Lyrics that… Try to convince me To forget Your turquoise smell.   It feels like a dream but it is so real that It feels like my music Now is complete Without your breath.   Now, I’m here… it seems like nowhere Absence of presence NO tonality ambiguous personality Kind of I’m liking this place… I see you precious as the last sky that I see in my dreams every sleep, I take out The purple melody And I play an elegant transcription of the symphony of my dreams… You look at me and smile So we both will be apart… I will bring you alive... with my next chorale. With a Symphony for 300 hundred souls. I WILL BRING YOU ALIVE WITH AN ETERNAL RHYTHM Every morning, Every dream, where there is a note you are with me.
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Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014 at 2:48 PM UTC
PURPLE MELODY
How is it possible? That in your eyes... I have found, that my music Resonates As hard, As the shining of the stars. Never a human show me That music can be found In the warm of mortal arms. Melodies fly over the skies When I think, on those eyes. Now, that the light is just white... My music has no life, You took the colors apart. I can not decorate The rhythm of your lips. They faded and, I can not paint them. I can not hold those hands anymore Indicating the tempo. So, I will go find you. The world that is below Does not scare me at all The smell of your dry tears Is singing me to where I should be. After I finish my last piece, I will trust in my ears and, I will bring you with me. So, we both shall compose, The greatest symphony of love. I have figured out that If I play this twelve row.   The doors of the underworld will open, so I won’t feel this cold. Every night after you closed your eyes... I have been dreaming with: dramatic purple Melodies.    Sophisticated       Rhythms. And Lyrics that… Try to convince me To forget Your turquoise smell.   It feels like a dream but it is so real that It feels like my music Now is complete Without your breath.   Now, I’m here… it seems like nowhere Absence of presence NO tonality ambiguous personality Kind of I’m liking this place… I see you precious as the last sky that I see in my dreams every sleep, I take out The purple melody And I play an elegant transcription of the symphony of my dreams… You look at me and smile So we both will be apart… I will bring you alive... with my next chorale. With a Symphony for 300 hundred souls. I WILL BRING YOU ALIVE WITH AN ETERNAL RHYTHM Every morning, Every dream, where there is a note you are with me.
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What was over there          was something complete;                                                    ambiguous tonality                                in contrary, mayhem.          This is what I told you malleable—fortitude
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Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 8:44 PM UTC
Equal Out