Best Riffing Poems

lone crimson leaf
whisked away
on day's breath
floating endlessly

my mind 
in thoughts
drifts wayward
on a breeze
as i land
artistically 
in your arms
through dreams...

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Quiet!  Quiet!
No distraction or reaction
to the situation
of creation
unfolding syncopation ...
a blues distillation.

As the sax-o-phone 
does groan into a tirade
the parade of ticks and tocks
licks and knocks
reverberate from the drummer,
bass strummer and pi-an-o
to congeal into real
high fueled blues.

Up and down the scales
the moan wails
a lascivious...

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Quiet!  Quiet! ... no distraction
or reaction
to the situation
of creation
unfolding syncopation
with a blues distillation.
No words to disturb
the ears of fears that leers
from behind walls in the night
creepy crawlies all in fright
from a blues light.

As the sax-o-phone
does groan into a tirade
the parade of ticks and tocks
licks...

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Religions try
People cry
Fear abounds

A wife wails in the night
Trying to pick up the fragments of her life
Like so many pieces of glass embedded in carpet

Men preach
People listen
Hoping to find a magic solution
To the problems of life

Only to realize that dreams
Will only happen if they have
Open...

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