Snapping fingers rhythmically
...(Snapping fingers rhythmically) Cobham's downbeat/ A thunderclap birth/
Shorter's sax, a comet's fiery girth, blowing jazz-poet notes, a furious chase, too quick for the tongue, lost in sonic space...
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Categories:
headhunters, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
In Hip City
...In Hip City/Tony Adamo
where rhythms collide, and no jive is spoken/
Guru laid down the truth, a fusion of jazz and rap/ no holds barred streetwise rap talk/ Just as Herbie’s touch on keys/ his Hea...
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Categories:
headhunters, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
The following fictitious scenario I evoke
...The following fictitious scenario I evoke
Analogous to fire breathing
puffed up imaginary dragon
(in a land called Honah Lee)
ye might rightly think
what the deuce
haunting spectre ace of sp...
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Categories:
headhunters, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Molly My Love
...Young Molly is topping the death charts at number 1 with a stray bullet. The gun is led by a headhunters scorn. Desired by many and made in the forsaken pulpit. No warnings entail, as many now morn. ...
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Categories:
headhunters, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Those Meat Pies
...• Those Meat Pies/Tony Adamo/2011
Straight to the head groove in hip time/ lay me out man It's jam time/ Ya know the funk is slight/ It's tight/ bright syllables in five four time/Walkin' the beat on...
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Categories:
headhunters, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Boy's of the Forest
...Deep in Borneo
The myth was broken
No headhunters did i find
But in the morning i was awoken
Some tribal people
Near a plateau crest
Have finally spotted
The boy's of the forest
I had hea...
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Categories:
headhunters, fantasy, nature
Form: Rhyme