To Lady Day
Bars of misfortune
singing dark memories
Nightmares once stillborn
—beguiling again
(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
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Categories:
lady day, dark, memory, music,
Form: Free verse
Lady Death
she came in discreet way to me
and asked me
are you going with me?
negligent and rude
I told her
I can't, sorry,
but I have so many laundry and so many bills
to be paid without delay
but certainly
for sure
I'll release myself, only to have a little patience
she sat down on a chair and said
there is no problem
I'm waiting
solve
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Categories:
lady day, absence, age, beach, death,
Form: Free verse
Elegy For Lady Day
ELEGY FOR LADY DAY
'For all we know, this may be only be a dream
We come and go like the ripples on a stream'
Thus it was you sang with body wracked and failing
Yet with that unmistakable voice and phrasing
Lady Day we'll never be the same
With such an ache of loss in our heart and soul
But we'll
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Categories:
lady day, eulogy, inspiration, memory, missing,
Form: Elegy
White Curls of Smoke (Ode To Lady Day)
my woman pours out hunger
like monsoon rain
come down to drown both wind and world
in melancholy memories
before
the dreams went dry
before
the fade to funk
stripped withered rhythms from her trunk
her blue/black/smile
still draws you down
below firm breasts
to pleasured space - wet with wandering warm-scented words
wrapped brother-tight
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Categories:
lady day, woman, night, night,
Form: Ode
Miss Lady Day
Lady Day -
In love with you I fell!
After devouring Strange Fruit
Your personal interminable hell -
On stage, ending of every performance,
You cried,
Because it assaulted you
Profoundly inside.
Beautiful Lady -
You should be crowned
For your illustrious voice,
Treasure unbound.
Inspired by Billie Holiday.
A. Green
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Categories:
lady day, dedication
Form: Rhyme