Best Jazz Poems
Below are the all-time best Jazz poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of jazz poems written by PoetrySoup members
Jazz ManJAZZ MAN
Lips of sweat,
Igniting catalyst tune as they burn,
Crossed eyes, attention spreads
feeling the whiteness in the pure magic
Each memo confronts the other,
Soul cord...
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Categories:
jazz, art, music,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
jazz, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form:
Couplet
On My Mother PassingON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...
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Categories:
jazz, cheer up, mother, mother
Form:
Narrative
A Muse Abused
I'll just step
very softly,
tip toe,
on this blank page.
My inner critic?
fast asleep!
Perhaps
I'll tap dance,
lightly,
while he snores.
For freedom
has a jazz band beat
...soon twirling dizzily...
Shhh!
The prison guard stirs.
9/27/2019
Yalto...
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Categories:
jazz, dance, freedom, muse,
Form:
Verse
Chapter and Verse a Live Poetry RecitalGood evening Ladies
May I say, I am honored and privileged
As this is the first ever time
I have read in front of a woman’s only...
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Categories:
jazz, animal, farm, humorous, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
South AfricaListen to the jazz instrumentals of Masekela,
as you take red wine outside a thatched
shelter in a beach in the Western Cape.
Enjoy a hearty meal of...
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Categories:
jazz, africa, culture, dedication, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Endless DevotionIn a valley where our hands etched the moon
Through luster of nightfall’s October veil;
We shared confidences through hazed monsoon
As I rambled on, keeping each detail
Of...
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Categories:
jazz, destiny, love, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Like a Poet Would DoLet me love you like a poet would do.
Let me bite on the lid of my pen, thinking of you.
Let me write you down on...
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Categories:
jazz, love, passion, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
My Own WayAlong this season’s mid quarter-time,
I find myself wandering between
The raw of night’s wanton pleasure
And the sacredness from morn awakened:
Late evenings replay a dancing...
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Categories:
jazz, adventure, life, self,
Form:
Free verse
KeepsakesHis jazz collection fills the spare bedroom
Music man, you see, was his nom de plume
Our wedding album rests on the nightstand
A keepsake for my viewing...
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Categories:
jazz, husband, lovewedding, wedding,
Form:
Couplet
My Solitary Wandering
I savor silence and my solitary dreams, my wanderings
and in my candlelit room, I withdraw
to my secret place and you
I have put on our...
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Categories:
jazz, memory, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
Sounds of SplendorSounds of Splendor
Some say songs soothe the savage beast
On gentle melodies I feast
Sensual pleasures increase
Swing me, sway me, elevate me
Joyful psalms can jubilate...
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Categories:
jazz, happiness, history, musicbeauty, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
The TerraceHuge red-orange sun slowly recede,
Upon the sky seem to bleed;
Whispers of night, calling home,
Such sunset days rarely spent alone.
Look ahead to starry skies;
Not time for...
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Categories:
jazz, eve, nature, nice, night,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poem For Sam CookeDecember 14, 1965
"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...
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Categories:
jazz, america, celebrity, devotion, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Neon Night: Urban SonnetAbove, the shrill of neon lights portend
a promise of new love in garish hues,
but for a broken life yet on the mend
the darkness of the...
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Categories:
jazz, imagery, lost love,
Form:
Sonnet