Jazz Dance Poems

These bronze companions 
Dha-dhin-dhin-dha flows from the soul 
Through seasoned fingers 
Tete-kata-gadi-gana 
Six decades of dance in palms

Father's rhythms —
Dha-dhin-dhin-dha lives within 
Each strike and...

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Have I ever mentioned that I once was a ballerina?
I used to dance like water.
Nothing used to bother my movements.
My stride, my step, my every...

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Nah it aint that
if you wanna be
real and all
you tell me to
call you on the telly
you never pick up
when I call
Change the definition
of Love
to yo'...

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Hard FOOT SOFT SOUL Dedicated VERSE FOR SHASTA SIMMS ANTHOLOGY #2

Hard foot soft soul
Oh, you gotta go
Hot foot soft soul dance
Hot axe bop step in...

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O’ Luffy Lue, you choose
Be boppn, boogie-woogie
Axe or jazz
Seize the night
Step up, step our pas de Bouree
Pirouette, percussion hey
Ain’t No question mine confession
No correction
Axe or...

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1910 Asogio slow the music, as the music freely slows
Heart ears hearing the abundant free flows
Jazz bebop axe percussion drumming a beating
Pirouette on point one...

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Funning, just be funning
Jumpin mine bare feet hopping
Striving, mind mouth be jiving
I’m not relying jazz juz beatings cuz
Endorphins just be enormous

My conclusions is an allusion
Dancing...

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Jazz Fingers-Dedicated verse for Delores Matthews-


Verse 1
Oh, when the night gets low and the shadows swing,
I feel a rhythm rise in everything.
Snap your fingers, let...

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I Miss Your LighT -BOOGIE-WOOGIE BOP-


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Ownla won’t let it go
She won’t let it go
Her rhythm break steps are
 Certainly a characteristic Oh! could Ownla could sing
Man she could dance dance...

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I am circulating my anticipating
Foot ached fever broke bout' ta step out
Not out of my vessel, yet my voice is in session
My lungs, frontal lobe,...

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Swing dance is fun, lively, playful
Wing it with jazz and rock and roll music
Impressive with lifts, dips, drops, leans
Nailing the basic steps is the key
Getting...

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People came and went all night, welcomed by the warm evening, the 12-piece jazz band, rich restaurant aromas and the boundless night sky. I hear...

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The dancers ranged from tiny tots
In tutus meant for twirls
To those performing hip hop moves
Designed for older girls.

There also were performances
In modern dance and jazz,
With...

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tonight i'm dancing;
fire in the bones
and a fury on my mind.
you can catch me
twirling the hips fiercely
feeling for every roll and cranny

i am love tonight

such...

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