Gillespie Poems - Poems about Gillespie

...The Kennedy Center is known to the world For honoring those in the arts – From Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Astaire, Whose talents top all of the charts. Sinatra, Gene Kelly, L. Bernstein, Ka......

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...Natural soporific narcotic Recurrent suicidal thoughts vaingloriously wend along winding road within windmills of my mind (o'er a death cab for cutie weeknd) yakking, yanking, and yawking zea......

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...“We’re cleared for takeoff,” the pilot announced, “settle in, our flight time to Atlanta will be 9 hours.” The Gulfstream roared down the runway and in a moment the tops of trees flashed by. We cl......

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...Aint Throwin my'self off no bridges God made the Ocean for the fish And at the risk of soundin' religious Suicide wont be gettin' his wish Sister Mercer, sister Bailey, Sing me through this ......

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...Early in the day o’er in Eastern sky Dawn comes, then sunrise = Morning comes over the horizon Into a new day filled with surprise Standing in the country garden While the grass is moist with de......

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...SHAKEN UP The vortex sucked me into the globe. shaken, distressed pounding on the confines of the glass. the snow n-e-v-e-r stops. Music lifts, from the bowels of this new world ......

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...recurrent suicidal thoughts vain gloriously wend (o'er a death cab for cutie weeknd) yanking zeal becalming this crash test dummy rolling stone temple pilot inxs o......

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...The older I get the less that I fret With my panties wadded up in a tizzy As anyone could see I used to be A mini-me of Dizzy Gillespie I'd huff and I'd puff when I'd had enough Like some Bi......

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...Kind Of Blue (For Miles Davis) Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx Ny 1991 Before they could lower Miles into the damp, dark ground Two of the PALL BEARERS Thought they heard musical sounds Befor......

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...Julie was born with an abnormal right foot, And this congenital disorder just meant that, She decided on a prosthetic at the age of 5, A 3S80 Ottobock prosthetic to give speed. She came int......

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...Call me Gillespie At the thought of choosing sides This all makes me Dizzy Where ones befuddled and the other lies White toothed grinning alligator Beady-eyed crocodile Which will we regret ......

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...Tag words: advertising, bebop, bird, bottle, Charlie Parker, Coca-Cola, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie, door, flag, heart, jazz, light bulb, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, palette, Pepsi Cola, p......

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...He plays jazz as if he invented it Arpeggios augmented, minored and majored Transferring from one chord to another Like flashes of lightning extracting emotional pearls all from from such a youn......

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...Bewteen two granite stones large enough to keep Jesus tucked away three plus days lies a crack so thin it doesn't allow shadows in though water finds its proper place. In winter it freezes S......

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...Vent-ill-Station I like the brain but my mind Isn't real, take it So I wield change in the face And I will make a disgrace of What humans made us Shaped into, its true Take some, its good for......

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