West Coast Kool Jazz
...West Coast Kool Jazz/ Spoken Word
In the air of the West, a cool breeze blows with a brushed silver sound, air-conditioned rhythm, sleek and precise, a cool jazz crown/West Coast KOOL JAZZ is born, ...
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Categories:
highball, music, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
One For the Road
...Another Saturday night in a piano bar
Trying to lighten the mood I was in.
When the waitress said "Last call!",
I ordered a highball
To top off the draft beer and gin.
The guy at the keyboard ...
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Categories:
highball, break up, love hurts,
Form: Verse
Cold Rain, Ain'T That Bad
...Outside...
The cold rain is why my old hat
feels plastered upon my head,
and why the street has a gray look,
as if the neighborhood is dead.
It’s why I can see every exhale,
why there is a ha...
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Categories:
highball, appreciation, autumn, imagery, november,
Form: Rhyme
Football, Volleyball, Baseball --- a Nonsensical Poem
...Football, volleyball, baseball, softball,
Racquetball, handball, basketball, hardball. . . .
There're lots of sports in the world you play with a ball,
And you can't play any of them if you're ...
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Categories:
highball, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Walking Meditation
...Walking Meditation
by Odin Roark
“And I thought marriage was hard.”
Taking Meditation for a walk
nags me with why I’m such a failure at this.
It knows what I go through e...
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Categories:
highball, hope, introspection, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Backwash
...I closed my mouth around the words,
felt my skeletons wash up against
the shore of a silver tongue;
Driftwood,
laying still on the bank,
charred and cracking open
inside the swallow...
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Categories:
highball, addiction, betrayal, break up,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hate the Way I Lie
...I cant stand there and watch you burn, its my turn
I wont let you get hurt, even if I get burnt
If I hear you cry It will make me die
All this because you hate the way I lie
This is real and we...
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Categories:
highball, confusion, courage, fear, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Mendacity In the Chat Room
...Mendacity in the Chat Room
By Elton Camp
"I am only fifty years old"
Is what the aged geezer told
"You know, I am quite rich"
Claimed a man living in a ditch
"Two hundred is all I weigh"
Said on...
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Categories:
highball, funny, drug,
Form: Rhyme