Will my verse reach your ear
can your eye stay the course
listening, then writing my verse I awake, content until the next time, the chords at my finger tips drift back and forth into a song.
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cRISIS RELeASED
Drawing blindly in the dark,
elongated by time, impredicable
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By this still hearth I will drink
life to the lees. Much I have
known and seen.. myself not least.
I am part of all that I have met,
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The Lord makes glad the heart with wine
Oil to make the face shine-
His Bread alone sustains the soul, and make us whole.
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Retro 1
Emotion & feelings, active, no
longer passing fads of intervening years.
A latter day passion, now fading from
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Art is an inspiration..berthed alive
Poetry is an inspiration...said aloud
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A demi sonnet
No noise, silence,
the beating of my heart,
alone, with my thoughts;
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Tien, poetry for today
syllabic sentences of
just one cadence long.
Ten sans caesura makes
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Convinced that poetry is an aural art form, best read aloud, to create a unique 'as is moment' between poet and listener so much of Strand's anthology is published on youtube under his pen name ichthyschiro (along with some of his artwork) and with his short forms @strandpoet on twitter. Strand is the creator of many innnovative shorter poetic forms including the 'footle' and 'broken monoku' one line Tien and tercets Septimal and PS(perfect six))
Summer Ball
Love
blossomed
suddenly
that evening
they met by chance, in the 'excuse -me' dance