Best Charlie Parker Poems

The baby cried, but the wailing was a soothing
Jazz melody in E flat, a sound associated with
that baby for thirty-five years.  A Bebopper,
a jazzer, a revolutionary, a Bird!  He could
make you fly like no one else.  But the scars,
the scars he received...

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I'm riding and flying into dimensions beyond the 3rd,
Sweet melodies and harmonies of rhythmic words.

They speak melodiously and deeply to my soul.
I'm riding and flying; I'm losing control.

No seatbelt to buckle into or even think of,
But I'm safe and feeling free, flying like a dove.

Above...

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