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Long Road |  Jeanne Fiedler - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Long Road | Jeanne Fiedler

In tuneful rhetoric
as I watch the
changing wind
I speak to the north,
south, east and west
and follow the path
the direction leads me

Over the scarlet
crimson mountains,
the burnt orange
tree poses and sun
glaring stirs that
wallow in the breeze

The summer ends
flatly
We stretched it
out forever and
ever until it
finally stopped and
the seasons grace
us poetically with
glows of sunsets and
luminous leaves,
hurricanes raining
and pushing
until we turn our
case over once
more to the
whistling wind
and the full moons
that bewilder us
into uncertainty

Your Happiness Makes Me Beam Like A Summer Sun |  Paul Tristram - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Your Happiness Makes Me Beam Like A Summer Sun | Paul Tristram

It is more than orange
and yellow put together.
This explosion of warmth
and feeling
fire-working my emotions,
serotonin my brain.
I can taste it,
overwhelmingly…
it’s like… buttery Magic!
Don’t you dare stop smiling
or I’ll tickle you.
Please, tell me again
the reason for Everything.

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Poem Beginning with Lines from Eliot |  Eamon Cooke - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Poem Beginning with Lines from Eliot | Eamon Cooke

Between melting and freezing
The soul’s sap quivers.

At this
The darkest time

I think of ancient lunar engravings
At Knowth, County Meath.

(Looking up they saw in the night sky
Phases of the moon)

I remember meeting Seamus Heaney
At a reading in Dublin

How he inscribed
The title page of his book

“Shine the light”
Sending me home on wings.

—–

Epiphany morning.
A bright day promised.

Twig shadows
On the bedroom wall.

Delayed awhile
In the afternoon

(Small commitments
Mundane tasks)

But managed a walk
Before sunset.

Saw the first snowdrops
Rooks hankering home.

Jazz |  Marie MacSweeney - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Jazz | Marie MacSweeney

A straggle of middle-aged men,
instruments spread before them
and their music, one already
lighting a pipe, and the smoke spirals
in front of the flat-capped pianist
at the black piano.

The signal, a private joke,
and when the laughter subsides
the clarinet leads, tentative, wayward,
slowly finding its exquisite way.
Trombones join in, and the guitar,
the trumpet, the sax.

The room itself swayed by rhythm,
each note urging another on,
a melody, and the melody backtracking,
moving from ferment to reflection,
from motion to stillness, it is
everywhere, it is nowhere at all.

The gleaming silver drums,
the musician’s early brush strokes
like the first lingering caress
of a delicate lovemaking. Afterwards
the thunder, the turmoil, the anger
before the hush – and then the song.

The Jazz Man sings. The clarinet
is calm, and the trumpet.
The guitar sits easy on its stand.
The trombones rest, side by side.
Even the seething drums are silent
as the Jazz Man sings.

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