Long Backbeat Poems

1910 Asogio slow the music, as the music freely slows
Heart ears hearing the abundant free flows
Jazz bebop axe percussion drumming a beating
Pirouette on point one foot tappiN
Cadence ragtime Hallelujah
Be it that, rat a tat, tat,...

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Ownla won’t let it go
She won’t let it go
Her rhythm break steps are
 Certainly a characteristic Oh! could Ownla could sing
Man she could dance dance traditional
Has a cute smile, and a deep soul
Boy! She would...

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D street daydreams,

watered down time,
diluted with a soured lime,

streaming like faces,
caught in tour bus windows,
shading eyes from mid day light,

a winking glint on distant water,

faint gulls cry winging over,
far off sand dunes like snowy plover,

wind...

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I heard the owl call my name,
like a backbeat in a child's voice,
etched in shadows of a father's grave,

lonely echoes on a frosted night...

at dawn I'll be immortal again,
renewed by a workaday 
and the frigid...

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MY SYLPH SITS ON A STAR

Baby here’s a symphony for a sylph such as you to dance with me
Here’s some homespun harmony to walk arm and arm with me
Here’s a rhapsody to wrap your arms...

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A familiar dawn of dull and sunless sky
the inconstant rattle of unlocked door, which
plays a backbeat to the buzz of dying fly.
A breath of wind blows a high, discordant pitch;
wildly rings a wind bell on...

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Never in secluded pools they dwell,
I speak of ornate  waterfalls,
they rise and fall majestically,
near docks, wharves and piers,
sparkle, gleam, smooth flow trickle,
eye balm whirl fantastic perk on tap,
stickybeak on podium rapids,
instigator signage when our...

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Enticing beat,
ancient accolades, achieving ancestry
 backbeat barrage, buoyant beats
crescendo chorus  calculations
 dulled dirges, double drumming durations
environmental echoed egos
 faint, fading fervent falsettos;
Ghost-Note grooves
 hi-hat hoop heads hued
intended isolation idio-synchrony
 jembe jaunt journeyings
kidi kick knockings
...

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By day the quarrymen

The music band understand
6 long month's they must wait
till their next recording session

They won't play the ashes all summer
In the winter garden 
With the shed at the bottom
Until the snow subsidies again

So...

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Gilt-edged first light visions greet 
zestful horde in trendy street
Luscious coffee bouncing bean
set alight a dormant scene 
Pumpkin seeds dot fresh brown toast
eager staff cool vibrant host 
Ghetto blasters rock and blare 
raucous voices split...

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The b ba baaa backbeat of backup beeps
and the engine rroarrrrs
join the whizz of rubber wheels
and the lingering laughter of lovers
at the intersection

The beep-beep tootelie-toots
of arriving transit buses 
tickles the funny-bone of morning
waking somnambulant walkers
who...

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Play a little diddle
Fet me some
Play a little diddle
Fer me come on boy

Give me some of that ole raz a ma taz
Play me some beat give me jazz
Air check backbeat block chords Fusion Bridge
Get down...

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Mysterious brain jewel radiation chamber
Prismatic refraction blue sapphire ruby emerald amber
 
Electromagnetic spectrum distribution
Tubular nerve net staccato syncopation
 
Chameleon shape blender shifter
Kaleidoscopic genetic mutation sifter
 
Polychromatic vector generator
Infinite recombination stimulator
 
Reboot jack gray matter rejuvenation
...

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