Category: music
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Billie
God Bless The Child crying on the stage shriveled raisin, Strange Fruit drying in the sun Swinging In The Rain lying at the mic Lady Sings The Blues dying on the stage 1-29-26
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Gibson’s war
After the war, After bodies were cleared, Mass graves dug up, Photographed and catalogued. After the rubble was pushed aside, and reconstruction begun, You found an abandoned instrument with broken strings. Because this was all you could handle and it did not stink of death, You thought of all the songs it had sung Cradled…
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How Zappa met Suzy Cream Cheese
You climb out of bed, put on a tee-shirt, sweat pants and a ball cap Walk to the corner store, buy coffee in a styrofoam cup Lady at the counter tells you to zip up Instinctively, you reach down and zip your pants She barks you could have turned around to zip your pants You…
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Bob’s Reggae kind of morning
Last night’s rain drops Drip from trees Rhythms birds sing Not taught in school Water strums on leaves A knowing back beat “Cause every little thing Is gonna be alright” 9-25-20
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The caressing bow
in fresh mown grass she stood outside the hospice window bow caressed violin _____ on the other side music embraced her mother kissed her cheek and said goodbye 9-23-20
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4-12 haiku
before sunrise came you lay in the dark waiting for avian hymns 4-12-20 (it is supposed to rain by noon and I want to get my 3 mile walk in, so here is a haiku for you; I may edit and expand this into a tanka or I may write a longer poem or maybe…
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Plucking a Qi string
stone disappears pond ripples at precipice sound stands single note looks over edge ready to jump but doesn’t howls at emptiness ripples on pond recede 3-12-20
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sitting in the cool by myself
House music overhead counting beats So many songs the same uptempo drum line Start with a bass drum thump 1-2-3-4 Light touch of a high hat whispers in between Add tom tom and snare on the beat familiar as your heart It doesn’t matter who sings or the lyrics it is all white noise Hunkering…
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