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Three Part Harmony - Robert Campbell Monterey County High School Poetry Award Winner


  1. Talking
The voice with the most to say
A melody you can’t keep from humming
The filter that distorts developed declarations
Into sloughs of stuttering syllables
The voice you wish you’d hear less often.


  1. Singing
The voice closest to God.
A harmony perched at the top of the staff
The air in your empty skull mixes
With the passionate affair of your vocal chords
You hoist yourself to divine status
Standing on the tiptoes of a single note.


  1. Thinking
The voice that never needs to take a breath.
A baseline written in a subconscious clef
Synapses create utopias
Aspirations and apprehensions
Debate before the most exclusive of audiences
Loud, raw, judgemental, unrelenting,

You.

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