Getz Poems


Premium MemberJazz Out

...(Sam Trio stands at the mic, snaps fingers lightly, takes a drag on a Marlboro, and smiles to the crowd) Dig this, we’re going back in time, way back to the smokey jazz clubs and cool sounds and jazz...
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Categories: getz, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On

...Scott Joplin, Paul Simon and the Beatles pop,
The Stones, Dire Straits and, Yes & ZZ Top.
Bob Dylan plays his heart out, Northern Soul,
Rod Stewart, The Traveling Wilburys do their stuff,
And as ...
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Categories: getz, music,
Form: Rhyme


The Call of the East 1

...I felt a bit like Humbert, or John Proctor, 
an ageing vulture drawn to fresh young flesh. 
She was a pretty, witty Turkish doctor 
(so, not exactly plundering the creche!) 

She seemed to like ...
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Categories: getz, romantic,
Form: Quatrain

Your Ghost Came Calling

...the day is dark and overcast
gloomy is the word
I sit here contemplating what to do
the volume on the radio
is turned down low
soft progressive jazz, eh . . .
do they still call it progressive ...
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Categories: getz, love,
Form: Free verse

Taking It All In For What It's Worth

...parmesean shrimp pasta and loaded cheese grits
southern chicken tenders and rice pilaf
hot buttered cornbread and butterscotch pudding for dessert
two bottles of water, some multivitamins, and an ...
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Categories: getz, beach, food, god, ocean,
Form: Free verse


Purdee Poofict People

...youz beauties wit all dem dare wurds,
baffle me, cause mine brainz is turds
somedae I'zill grows up,
ann getz real smartz likz yu'zz,
til den, iz' carrie onz, 
feelin o, sew blew...
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Categories: getz, allegory, angst, confusion, funny,
Form: Burlesque
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