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Best Satchmo Poems

Below are the all-time best Satchmo poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of satchmo poems written by PoetrySoup members

Sammy Davis Jr, Pure Talent

Sang like a whippoorwill, up high on a hill
   Played trumpet like Satchmo, with panache and skill
To watch that man tap-dance, gave even...

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Categories: satchmo, dance, music, song, tribute,
Form: Monorhyme

Bright Flames of Jazz

Lady Ella, Queen of Jazz:
      you brought so many songs to life.
   Forget the words? Just make up...

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Categories: satchmo, music, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

'What A Wonderful World'

Louis Armstrong …
a class by himself
Not Dixie or Jazz
but much deeper felt

Growing better with age
his music enthralls
If fourteen or forty
his melodies call

Both Ella and Ray
are...

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Categories: satchmo, music,
Form: Rhyme

Just An Old Trumpet Player

JJust an old trumpet player with a worn out horn –
Seems he had played it ever since he was born.

Sometimes his lively music put dancing...

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Categories: satchmo, music, people,
Form: Couplet

Old Lp

As I dusted off an old jazz LP
A musical genie appeared to me
With seven notes in his hand
And a  wish for each one
So I...

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Categories: satchmo, music,
Form: Free verse

When the Saints Come Marching In

This has to be New Orleans’ favorite song.
It was made popular by the late Louis Armstrong.
Although Satchmo is no longer around.
we can always hear this...

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Categories: satchmo, music, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Jazz - Pleiades

Just listen to Satchmo,
      Jams by Duke Ellington,
    James Clay's moving tenor
  John Coltrane's fine Post-Bop
...

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Categories: satchmo, art, celebrity, dance, humor,
Form: Pleiades

Jazz - Pleiades

Jamming geniuses - Wow!

                  Jitterbugging soul feels

 ...

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Categories: satchmo, happiness, music,
Form: Pleiades

All That Jazz

big satchmo
renowned jazz
pops



In Loving Memory Of
Louis Daniel Armstrong   {Satchmo Or Pops}  
{Aug 4th 1901 - July 6th 1971}




Also Entry For Brian Strand's...

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Categories: satchmo, black african american, death,
Form: Light Verse

Footle-Smiles All Round

true pro

satchmo...

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Categories: satchmo, music, people
Form: Light Verse

Ya Need To Treat Me Better I'M Old But Not Dead Yet---

Ya Need to Treat Me Better I'm Old But Not Dead Yet---

I don't need your pity;
I ate no OLD bitty;
Don't serve me no soup or...

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Categories: satchmo, age, america, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Verse

A Poem For My Father

#Here WE are, There WE were...

I AM Your Seed. 

Today, I won't UNRAVEL the Damaged Weeds...
There's An ABUNDANCE Of New Ones That Multiplies At OUR...

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Categories: satchmo, family, father, father daughter,
Form: Free verse

A Most Thoughtful Balladeer, Endeared: Mr Tony Bennet Tribute

"YES! THERE ARE MANY SINGERS WITH GREAT VOICES...
JUST THEIR MERE SOUND, ALONE, TELLS US THAT THEY CAN HOLD A NOTE AND CONFIDENTLY "CARRY A TUNE!"

BUT...

WHAT...

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Categories: satchmo, appreciation, dedication, feelings, how
Form: Free verse

Satchmo's Trumpet - Homage To Louis Armstrong

From afar a sound of "Blues" so tender
Like Satchmo strumming his trumpet
His loud voice calling us together
Makes me in verses break into yesterday

Oh Louis...raise your...

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Categories: satchmo, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Hurt So Good

Etta was predicting
Stormy Weather
As Ray freed his
Seven Spanish Angels
Roy asked are you still 
Running Scared
But Ella was smiling and 
Watching Over Me
Peggy gave me that...

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Categories: satchmo, music, words,
Form: Free verse