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Maestro
...Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996) In the midst of stale fog – Is it day or night? The dimmed dishevelled lights don’t give a bass clef Whilst notes made syncopated love at the bar A tsunami of dis......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, appreciation, celebrity, in memoriam,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Oh Those Boswell Sisters
...Some called the radio station demanding they throw them out of the studio. Others called to brag about their talents, their arrangements, their sass. Boswell sisters had been singing together since......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, music,
Form: Free verse
Silk, Satin and Cashmere: A Tribute To Phenomenal Singers
...#A GIFT...AN UPLIFT! A GLORIOUS SHIFT OCCURS WHEN HAVING BEEN PRIVY TO AN OUTSTANDING SINGER! THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, YOUR HEART FEELS A GLOW... BECAUSE A SINGER HAS MOVED YOU SO... "A SINGER H......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Protective Lyricism For the Ages Part Two
...Protective Lyricism for the Ages Part Two Martin Luther King creating a path to dessimate discrimination  An angel earning his wings from an epiphany of prophetic elation  Listening to Ella Fit......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 Gregory Hines a thrill As Ella Fitzgerald told us, 'Sam......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, dance, music, song, tribute,
Form: Monorhyme

Me Little Mother
...She turns me around Forty years ago At High School graduation And she says… Something I can’t remember It was probably something like, ‘Well, lookit that!’ or ‘Boy, Howdy!’ or Some such enc......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, appreciation, faith, humor, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jazz Singers
...Sammy Davis and Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singers Their b'deed'lee-dip riffs on the Sullivan show didn't linger In America's consciousness, and that's really too bad They were surely the best ja......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, america, how i feel,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Art Therapy
...My daughter, with Oppositionally Defiant Chaotic Disorder, has taught me a role-play therapy, in which we Both-And build a back-and-forth story, she plays me, more or less, and I play her Mula......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, culture, earth, family, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Fugitives of Justice
...Thank god I finally was caught and cited for doing something that I didn't do. Just think how much worse I would feel if I actually had done it, as I have done so many stupid thoughtless things......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, community, health, hope, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Amother Saturday Night, Alone
...Sitting here in my room listening to Ella Fitzgerald (on what would have been her 98th birthday) Not so bad to be alone Health worries trouble me but I have a pen and paper (thank God) Con......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, poetry, poets,
Form: Blank verse
Live Jazz
...BY STREET CRIES READING BOOKS TO THE SOUNDS OF JAZZ ABSORBING TUNES TO A HYPNOTIC PAST WHERE HORNS ARE BLOWN AND KEYS PLAYED AT JUST THE RIGHT TONE ITS A SOULFULL VIBE THAT CREATS A RELAX......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, black african american, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
Another Saturday Night, Alone
...Sitting here in my room Listening to Ella Fitzgerald (on what would have been her 90th birthday) Not so bad to be alone Health worries bother me but I have a pen and paper(thank God) Cont......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, poetry, writing,
Form: Blank verse
Christmas Out of the Body Experience
...A few nights before Christmas all was quiet in the apartment except for a few ghosts milling about in it Before I went to bed to rest my head I thought of the words of a friend who once said......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, death, family, miracle, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 wished to see some singers and bands Then I traveled back in time On a C n......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, music,
Form: Free verse
He Brought Us Music
...Many times when I would here a song, I would get an almost joyful longing, but I could never pinpoint the moment in my past that I wished for so deeply. I would feel a certain peaceful joy, hovering......Read the rest...
Categories: ella fitzgerald, devotion, religion, christmas, longing,
Form: Blank verse

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