Best Blue Note Poems

a blue note left 
inside a white envelope --
stained with tears

winter sun peeks
through brittle leaves falling --
my tears dry...

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The trees no longer show to me
Their stamp of wondrous sanctity.

The whistling winds that nightly sing
No longer peace and solace bring.

The tumid sea so cold...

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I can hear the music
Even though there is no radio
I know it's on the other side of these walls
In a world that is now only...

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A Merchant Marine
At fifteen, he went to sea
A way to begin

Harsh Realities
Learning to be a real man
Life was on the run

Scrapes and falls and bumps
Toughening...

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They heard the breeze in oak trees
Making weird melodies
And they saw that as start of The Blues

From Parish Jail they heard the wail
Of a down-hearted...

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Passion Sings  

Passion sings
on blue note pillows,
down filled ecstasy
in satin linens

Stealing midnight
in each others arms,
falling satisfied
past lilac dreams
and calla lily shadows

Floating above
 slumbering affection
of...

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Everyone is podded off
Sipping, slipping into chill-consciousness
Blue Note-certified musings drip
From the tongues and lips
Busy, chewing the amplified air
The waitress saunters
Occasionally brushing up
Against the black-lacquered stallion
Resting...

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Like a cocotte I’m used, abused and bruised
From late evening to late hours of the night
Getting stains all over like that of love making
My master’s...

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Once in a blue moon.
being blue in the blue hour, and then: 
'Damn it to blue blazes!' - out of the blue,
one may be just...

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CRUISING WITH TRANE...
   (Apropos John Coltrane)

Sometimes
in a blue note mood
i take the A-Trane
into a soprano night

And listen 
to moonlight thrills
of beautiful sable birds

Monking...

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what do you need to be told
to make you capable of pragmatic liberation
which could be the foundation to a new
assessment of the inevitable
darkness is our...

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Six decades ago
the landscape of
my Little Nassau
had
places like
The Silver Slipper
The Blue Note
The Banana Boat
The Conch Shell
The Zanzibar
The Cat and Fiddle
and The Drumbeat Club
with activities like
Fire...

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In nature's design, six is the key to all life alive.
Hexagons in petals, snowflakes, and beehives thrive,
In music, blues and roots groups play the six-stringed...

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you were haunting, elusive, bitter, sweet
your hair was long, dark, lost, lonely
you sang the scars of the streets

And when I die...
New York tendaberry…
and the past...

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BLUE

             Blue flame:          ...

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