Best Grooving Poems

After raking hours of 24/7 toil
this brain wants to spin with ole jazz’s request…
14th Road at 8 pm sprays lint upon feet
much too slow for a jig of a night dance.
Somehow, the breeze leaps to resurrect
my wired head, as the gravel hiss of the sax...

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MOVING AND GROOVING ON

Have no fear my dear
we will dance two heartbeats near
it will be just me and you
and prove what providence can do

who would have thought two could be joined in such a way
from nowhere came a woman who promised she would stay
and although...

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as pure as imagination is
(apropos grooving to the word)

imagine this:
drumming words
to 88 keys
rainbow
ending 
into each other
mellowing out
like trane
waters
streaming tears

flowing
sidewalk raise banks
to drains
cascading monk falls
following birds to sea
to be free—
the real macoy

how time flies—
wingless
as it is
leaving grooves
with unseen notes
screaming
night and day melodies
exploding 
like cannonballs
sliding out and...

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Grooving Time

Many beginnings and ends
Leave behind careless finger prints
Errors' dust and residue
Layering one's facade

But beneath it all
If embraced
Destiny's motion
Remains on course

Like the needle
In a record's groove
Fate travels true the path
‘til one's song runs out...

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Ah, give me a reason to live with you
Ah, live with me eventually, baby so true
I’m sick with dem luv flu
I’m sick with dem luv flu
Tame the flames in my heart
Before I tear apart
Before I tear apart

The past is horrid
So forget about it
Goodbyes exchange
Change is...

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We went to hear a blues band
In a restaurant in town.
Although called "blues," it wasn't
Music that would get you down.

The vibe was friendly in the room,
Though most folks there were locals.
The band was really excellent -
Guitars and drums and vocals.

We sipped our wine and shared...

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