Best Tone Poems

Lived it
Like a daydream 
Sunlit!

Faintly
Floated - Befell
Quaintly.

A note
Scented in love
She wrote.



Maurice Yvonne
11~28~2014
Sponsor: nette onclaud
Contest Name: WHISPERS OF A MUSE ...

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Once you filled the room which hollow for a moment
Couples of days before new year eve we indirectly met
Hilarious to remember how we know and admire each other that day
Without knowing it won't last forever

One song... One song keep chanting me back to the memory...

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Tone down the intensity
Is like telling the sun
Not to reach its zenith
Of blazing, scorching heat
Or telling the waterfall
Just as it is ready to gush
Down in a tumult of
Freshness to hold back
At the edge
Or telling the volcano
Seconds away from erupting
Hot molten lava
To reingest the heat
And lie...

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Shirt says runs with scissors
Hat says shut up woman
First day of kindergarten
Parents have already set the tone
 
Child knows swear words
Uses them proudly
Anticipating loud laughter
Crestfallen and confused
When it does not happen
 
Sad lonely eight-year-old
No birthday party invites
No children allowed to play with him
Set up for...

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P   oets are a special breed
O   bsessed with how each line reads
E   ver seeking the perfect rhyme
T   aking oodles and oodles of time
S   o the finished product peals and chimes...

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There things education should give
Pain and despair, and 
The other the spirit of quit....

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I'm afraid of my cell phone I confess
"Someone" changed the ring tone to cause me stress
While I took a  nap
He switched it to rap
Now when my phone rings I'm really a mess



"Someone" being my grandson Jordan..
 I finally got him to change it back...lol


For...

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The tone in her voice told me I had gone to far,
the tear down her cheek another scar 
inflicted upon an already bruised loving heart.

The look in her eyes cause me to shudder,
the clench of her jaw arouses a twitch of her lip,
to quell and...

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Time does our earth presence sever
But the post office is clever  
And offers for sale
For its eternal mail  
A stamp that is good forever


Author's note: The idea that anything associated with this planet will be consumed "forever" is peculiar and laughable.  It...

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I chug upward
as the air
thins, the sky
blues the stars.
Then it, at the peak,
stops. Music
is not like life.
Envisioning the rhythm of time,
when the now point arrives
there is no view.
I have to tumble 
slide down
letting out 
the melody
of my breath....

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Stillbirth neither won
Gullible becomes the pun…
Cell phone cries to stun...

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Morning sky woke up
Golden and Indigo frames
After Super Moon...

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Oboe
don't step on toes
in a way people knows.
No, no. Oboe semi-wails, moans,
alto reality, beauty, sometimes
scarce sense of order but deep sense
of vibe. Oboe don't step
on toes. Toes need
oboe.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Nancy Jones
5/31/12 or therabouts
"Sound of Emotion"...

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leaden bows scour quavering cellos – lithely lilting violins

                                28 Dec 2017...

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The poet conditions herself to self blame 
for she writes of life's ups and downs 
a sense of bored gents from town to town 
for she hides her grief tucked away underneath 
a torn soul in which only she knows well 

you see most great...

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