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Trane Bird Hawk

I'm riding and flying into dimensions beyond the 3rd,
Sweet melodies and harmonies of rhythmic words.

They speak melodiously and deeply to my soul.
I'm riding and flying; I'm losing control.

No seatbelt to buckle into or even think of,
But I'm safe and feeling free, flying like a dove.

Above all pain 'cause Trane, Bird, and Hawk are soulfully saxing,
Sweet,

Categories: coltrane, art, beautiful, feelings, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

JAZZISTA coltrane

spontaneous   
   vitality
phrased
 individuality
improvised. 
     interpretations
of
the
  moment
filled
      with energye
in
   intuitive
      avant-garde
orrnamentation

Categories: coltrane, music,
Form: Didactic

Coltrane

I am quite taken with the sultriness from the 
Coltrane grove sending hints of cedar down 
my spine as I enters the room arousing the sassy 
brassiness of my horizons a solid structure 
forms each time his fingers tap the saxophone
unspeakable melodies hindered just so under 

the balanced keys behind the piano mans 
harmony and

Categories: coltrane, muse, music, mystery,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

She Has That Way About Her

The moon is a yellow-green tonight like the pistils of a daisy.
I have no interest in sleep.
The wine is gentle on my nerves.
I think about her discreetly.
I imagine her on a couch in pajamas reading a thick novel.
It is wrong of me to think of her without her consent.
I hear the deer down below rustling

Categories: coltrane, absence, blue, loneliness, wine,
Form: Free verse

Got a Love For You

for Alice Coltrane 


I got a love for you
you be jazz
I got a love for you
you be jazz
I got a love for you
you be jazz
jazz all my tears away
jazz all my tears away

you got me 
seeing all kinds
of colors in 
my mind's eye
but my favorite
are those shades
of blue -- reaching
from the sky deep
into indigo

Alice Coltrane

Categories: coltrane, insect, inspiration,
Form: Lyric

Coltrane

I'm living my life, 
Like a John Coltrane song, 
Melodious dissonance, 
All right and all wrong, 
Sweet, structured chaos, 
Each part takes a solo, 
Then fades and steps back, 
To play much more mellow, 
Some think there's genius, 
Others ask, 'What's the point', 
Yearning for answers, 
To resolve and anoint, 
It goes and it goes,

Categories: coltrane, anxiety, beauty, confusion, cool,
Form: Rhyme

Saint John Coltrane

SAINT JOHN COLTRANE

Old Trane New Trane Coltrane
Stood on the edge of the avant-guard 
Sanctified sax in hand blowing like thunder and rain
He acknowledged The Creator with Psalms in A love Supreme
A love Supreme... A love Supreme...A love Supreme
His horn screamed with pain
Alabama Oh...Alabama where our children died
Ka-boom!!
Expressions of rebellion as The Black Movement marched on

Categories: coltrane, music,
Form: Verse

I'M Rosco P Coltrane

I'm the sheriff and my name is Rosco P. Coltrane.
People in Hazzard know that the P is for pea-brain.
I work for Commissioner Jefferson Davis Hogg.
He hates the Dukes and he also hates my dog.
I usually get a cut of the take from my fat brother-in-law.
I love his evil schemes and I love to pinch his

Categories: coltrane, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme