Best Sax Poems

There once was a cat named Max,
Who wanted to play the sax.
But alas he had paws,
No fingers, just claws.
No way could Max play the sax....

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He was just a man with a sax
There aren’t really many other facts,
But as he played, 
I could trace the tracks,
Of the tears on his face,
And built up fears, 
From some tough lived years,
I could see in the cracks, 
Of his skin.

And as I watched...

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Sultry
Seductive
Saxophone
Tugging fondly
At each chord
Of my dulcet heart
Without a word
Delightfully meandering
Through the inner chambers
Of my soul
Through arches and
Beyond to the other world
On a cosmic journey
Sensual and voluptuous
Feline and flirtatious
Playing my heart like a harp



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Today she was the lady in blue and oh did my heart skip a beat.
When we all sing I hear her voice in the mist of all the others;
And she is the one I saw myself singing in heaven with.
I the man wishes it could...

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Sitting by a bookshelf
covered with thick dust
I shower my eyes
with other hands words
written in this book's chafed skin.
Skin that my hands have the only feel of others thoughts
cause actual immobile flesh with a mouth to speak
has never given me an appetite
to stay and chew on...

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Brothers agreed on almost nothing
Except the sax, which bound them spiritually.
They came together to play at their mother’s funeral
She was watching, naturally, loving her sons

All three brothers kept their grief to themselves
Sharing no feelings, for it is not manly, right?
Their saxophones did their talking for...

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Sensual the sound of the sax
         floating in the imaginary
        in delicate whispering chords...

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Darling you need to get your ears tested
I was hoping tonight, to be sexually molested
I asked you for sex as I gave a sensuous moan
Blow me down, you went and got a saxophone

Same result I guess, woke me from my slumber
Made that sax talk with...

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She stood there almost unnoticed
One component of a musical layer
Until her riff came and showed 
She was a mean saxophone player
Her controlled notes lazily flowing 
Around that club room and bar
No restrictions on their going
As she slid them near and far
Wrapping them around and through
Each...

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The club members all agreed Max was the coolest cat
“A Bohemian beatnik who knows where it’s at”
He taught Louie Armstrong to play those rhythm blues.
That is why we getting ready to tap with these shoes.

I don’t know what I expected, but certainly not a real...

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Due to an inherent desire
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Bari
Red, Maroon
Swinging, Smoothing, Swaying
Candy For My Ears
Saxophone...

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The lights are low, the air is thick with sin,
a lazy sax moans soft against the dark.
She sips her drink, red lipstick on the rim,
her gaze a flame that flickers with a spark.

The piano sighs, each note a lover’s touch,
fingertips tracing secrets on the keys.
She...

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