Best Improvisation Poems

There are those who improvise within a structure, 
with four beats to the bar like down home blues, 
melodies and harmonies which stay within the fold, 
embellishing the tune how e'er they choose. 

Then there are cats who improvise to their own drummer, 
inventing sheets...

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There are those who improvise within a structure, 
with four beats to the bar like down home blues, 
melodies and harmonies which stay within the fold, 
embellishing the tune how e'er they choose. 

Then there are cats who improvise to their own drummer, 
inventing sheets...

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your frightened sense is enough,
valor-wrapped
in braincell’s guts, 
and this
because -

(two clicks watch)
one
man just went; and
I have drenched
your two dry sentries' 
arteries
in a blood-shot tide.

precious rises
time and pressure
presses the vena cava;
will you split-run
at zero hours,
or lie alive,
(save one pump) 
and bunk with  
penitence?...

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The pain of someone
discovering
who I am
leaves me
raw

But

Creep inside my mind
take a quick peek
at how we
are the
same

Because

Heart hidden mem’ries
of our last kiss
recall you
to my
mind

As

Sweet Pandora’s box
is waiting to
be opened
at your
touch

Because

With your artist’s soul,
you’ve engraved your
name on my
poet’s
heart ...

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play
   of the pulse
noisless
   impatient

in a
     dreamy
       magical light
tones
 of
     muted thoughts
emerge

then
       berthed
as
word pictured
       ...

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   improvisation
   to better serve the nation
   like lightning was he deposed

     now all seems composed 
     ~ forced smiles seize the duration
...

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I love you lady, singing velvet night sky,
singing azure violet wounded woolen stitch.
I love your lady quavering haunting cry,
intoning shades of purple in fevered pitch.

I love you lady, even trilling, scraping in torment,
your voice straining oppressed about strange fruit.
I love you lady dear star teaching...

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With no fuss, 
no bother, 
no prompting
the gracious, 
generous giver gives,
in somber silence, 
unnoticed, 
a joyously 
benevolent 
improvisation,
in the silent way....

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H – Have Yourself a Messy Little Christmas
I   -        IMPROVISATION
L – Little Drummer Bouy
A – Auld Lung Spine
R – Rocking Into the Christmas Tree
I  -         INVITES HILARITY
O...

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