Best Miles Davis Poems

Kind Of Blue (For Miles Davis)

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx Ny 1991


Before they could lower Miles 
into the damp, dark ground
Two of the PALL BEARERS
Thought they heard musical sounds

Before the Preacher could say
Turn your BiblesTo Acts, 
The preacher paused.

After he read Deuteronomy
He looked back

But there was nothing...

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you lean back
like you always did 
and blow

wearing your bell bottom slacks
cool 
just like you always were

I hear you now
maybe I always did
I just didn't know

it's all I ever wanted  to do
paint a picture
lean back
see 
feel
and hear the music

so please understand
I'm not trying to...

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What is that feelin'
Creepin' 'bout my heart,
I think its kind of blue
Breakin' me apart

Fallin' into pieces
How many a heart has,
Once throbbed with neon
And all that jazz

I'm feelin' kind of blue
Not deep enough to cry,
A solemn kind of blue
Don't need to wonder why

Revolving slowly into
This somber...

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Sustained in dulcet fugue
blue waters 
converge inside 
moments of mountains
imbued with silent springs

Pouring illusive champagne dreams
rainbow arches
that impale the softness 
it sings bubbling pale perfect
birdsweet nectars

Daylight confronts
entering the city
rhythms of NOW
running to the urgency
emergency
lights flash into night 
beats of congruous conflict

Away
NOW stay
vending peace inside
moments of...

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