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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Pick up a pen.
let your muse loose
folow your nose..
fear not
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Grace, a very sparkling jewel,
a ring of gold, brings day out of
night, sweet from bitter, glory
out of shame and turns pebble
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How slight,
The petals of
A poppy flowering;
So much like us, beautiful, yet
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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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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