Best Mouth Harp Poems

Ashes waft over the meadow 
a jet stream of sorrow, 
beckoning the widow to the 
edge, down to the river. 

Contented epoch, at the 
creek where the wolves run, 
he lived and laughed. 

We watched the bright blue 
stars foxtrot across the milky 
way, a...

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A 
Dragon
Cannot play
Harmonica
Trying one melted
His own mouth harp
To liquid
Metal 
Pool.
...

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One eye was brown, the other blue,
Australian Shepard his breed-
a workin' dog with one heck of a nip
to the heels a cattle an' steed.

Just a little fur ball when I got him,
but I well remember the time,
he could out run 'n outsmart the lot,
an' make...

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Daniel had an old guitar...
That he could never play 
It sat stood in it's stand... 
Until he took it out one day 
And Daniel never taught himself...
How to play that old guitar 
He never thought one day, that he would learn to play...
To be an...

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I miss my father everyday,
He is no longer there...
I miss him dearly,
Somedays too hard to bear...

When I envision him at the table,
Or playing his mouth harp,
An instrument on which he was,
Oh so very sharp...

Phantom breezes,
Like memories...
Still flow through cracked windows,
of 100 years ago...
Memories of family...

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pluck the gentilities
got sined sensiblities
a quiet cacophony
rhythms at timing
resemblin' the melody
on repertoire
schwaaaa - aaaah 
hear the sizzle of cymbals
the soul of her body
her sippin' hot toddy
- damn that jazz!

sheets o' music flyin'
mouth harp a cryin'
chords hit the floor diein'
to move a'wrigglin' rear
RISE UP! GET DOWN!
fade...

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My harmonica cries, 
in tones of silver sighs and golden tears; 
wailing bittersweet joy.

Sound of sadness; sound of laughter; 
it’s in the wailing that color blooms.  
Mouth-harp memories fill many family albums.

Circle of breath, circle of life; 
winding in and out; among the reeds....

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I think I'd like to go to the moon,
In fact, I kind'a hope to do it soon,
Looks nice and bright up there,
Should disperse my shadows of despair,
I'll bring my mouth harp, and my tap shoe,
So I can dance in a crater, while playing too,
Then it...

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The band was on  a beer break
When old Doug got up onto the stage
In a hotel down on Main street
He was playing that old song 
On a battered old  mouth harp that spit
Then he started into singing  off key as ever
Then the...

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My harmonica cries, 
in tones of silver sighs and golden tears; 
wailing bittersweet joy.

Sound of sadness; sound of laughter; 
it’s in the wailing that color blooms.  
Mouth-harp memories fill many family albums.

Circle of breath, circle of life; 
winding in and out; among the reeds....

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Listening to the Blues
Slouched almost supine
Next to special person,
Her hand clasped in mine:
Mississippi picking,
Bottle neck used as a slide
St James Infirmary playing,
End of a long Blues ride.
Now a mouth harp break
Exhilaratingly raw,
Finger picking guitar
Carrying the music before.
House rent music that
Spread the world around.
Borrowed, refined, adapted
Into...

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Just a single footlight
Just a single chair
A solitary figure
Sitting comfortably there,
Right ankle resting
On his left thigh
Guitar resting 
Comfortably high
Mouth harp held
In its neck stand
Strings being plucked
By his right hand.

And he blasted out the blues
Rocking the night along
Some standard covers
And a self penned song.

Bringing all into...

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I'm nobody that you'd know - 
maybe you can call me Joe.
Walking down MacDougal Street,
I had no one to meet.
A New York night without a friend,
I dropped into The Bitter End 
to escape the cold and think, 
and to have myself a drink.

My troubled mind...

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Believe me when I say 
No one wants to be me, not yesterday, not today 
The grass isn’t any greener over here, my dear 
I ask no one to walk in my orthopedic shoes 
They’re always loose and you’ll only get lost if you do...

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