Long Bebop Poems

I Write Wits Psalm Burning Desire...

Why?
To escape livingsocial,
     and negate mine birth
figuratively, knowingly,
     and precariously,
     I nightmarishly perch
teeter tottering atop - dearth
of financial...

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Simply an exercise in rhyme, inspired by the unique 1950s & 1960s be-bop tunes I grew up with - though it failed to help my cause -        ...

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I have a strong need to elucidate my unfathomable love for
You,
named JAZZ

The improvisational sound of ragtime and jive.
Bop to the bebop of your rhythmic stride.

O  what you do.
You,
named JAZZ

As I rouse everyday to harmonious...

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we tend to forget the time when we ourselves were very young
our own parents did not understand some of the things we had done
we had our own style of music, our own dances and points...

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From bebop, swing to hip-hops thing
True poets had it best
For there is a rhythm in the soul, 
Which they all just had to express

Some could not control
This powerful thing 
 Was so often put to...

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Yiu can walk a mile in a mirror stance and 
never feelyour own re reflection. Your glaze gaze
bends on invisibility--a certain humor
crosseyed cleverly cleared like the rooms in the 
Winchester House or a traffic jamitis...

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Sun RA Rockets to Mars/Tony Adamo/2000

Sun Ra  rockets to Mars/ landing with his Arkestra by way of his supersonic  jazzhip ship/
The red dust be a  flyin’ below his dancen’ feet/
The heliocentric ...

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Fred frog would a dancing go,
With his best friend Bob's girlfriend Flo,
Flo went to all the dances
Where all the male frogs she entrances
She knew how to bebop
And she and Fred danced a lot
Poor Bob felt...

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Full All Dressed Up and Going Nowhere!

"Approximately 10 quintillion insects reside on Earth --
in addition to billions of squirming humans."  
-- a stink bug by any other name  
   
* ...

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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, pluralism – found
object, retablo painting, sculpture

Arbitrary or subconscious, Saunders picked six.
Man...

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Like quicksilver changing  moods in a day
Cousin Bess defies norms, such freakish will;
A  dazed mess about her I can’t even  explain…
Whenever late, she blames the neighbor’s cat
For  tearing the seams of...

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A super seismic year
Eargasmically one to revere

Sweet pulsating sounds
Bebop starting to slow down

Yes!  A new, a brand new, from an "OLD"
A new form that is undefined but it feels good to the soul

A new...

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The baby cried, but the wailing was a soothing
Jazz melody in E flat, a sound associated with
that baby for thirty-five years.  A Bebopper,
a jazzer, a revolutionary, a Bird!  He could
make you fly like...

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Harlem in the 40s

Harlem in the 40s was a place of rhythm and soul
Where music was the language and jazz was the goal
Where singers and musicians made the crowds go wild
Where swing and bebop and...

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See them bully boys in the schoolyard
playing penitentiary hard
Face-scraping the concrete ...
Neanderthal knuckle features marred

Look at the smart treehouse girls
(with Zoology swing low ease thus far)
put the dumb cave-butt chimps
behind the Donkey Kong monkey bars

Finding...

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The 50’s are special to me
Started High School in ‘52
Wore shrink tight jeans and cowboy boots
Long hair ducktails and sideburns too

Rock and Roll music was “the thing”
Meet your buddies with a high five
The girls started...

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Thelonious Monk
piano keyboard prophet
harmonizing scales

Melody from flat to sharp
rhythm soothing to the soul


Comments:  Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) is recognized as one of the 
most influential figures in the history of Jazz. He was one...

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Echoes of 52nd Street

In the beginning was the Word . . .
_______

Ahh, listen
to his gentle jazz,
this quiet bit 
of razzmatazz,
a classic string 
of notes in time, 
yet timeless, 
interspersed with rhyme,
like Coltrane
calling on the ‘phone
to...

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THE EURIDITE MONK
   (Apropos Thelonious)

The misunderstood rhapsody
of the ebony-ivory union
reflects a oneness of time
and space fathomed
but to the freed ears
picking up the syncopation 
of mind body and soul
of the sellers and the sold;

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TEMPORARY    CONTEMPORARY



Today’s contemporary is tomorrow’s traditional;
The older we get the more traditional we prefer.
New young mother cooks not like her mother at all -
But  new children think it’s traditional with her.
We...

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Could you please just take a bit off the top?
I stare at this cardinal, hoping he’ll stop.
But surely there is a bird barber shop.
Yes, but they never give me a good chop.

Afraid I would be...

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This jazz pallete weeps with greed 
for the return of some bebop 
and crooning bleeds.
Neon flagships that lit the night
with saxophones 
and trumpets bright.
This bird bottled in country twang
is popping the cork
for some bluesy swang.
Spinning...

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Most times,
old heart,
you're like 
a sultry walking blues;
48 beats per minute
of Muddy or John Lee
shuffling a twelve bar,
never out of rhythm,
classic, lazy,
drowsy 
old man's beat

boom,boom
boom, boom 

boom, boom
boom, boom 

Old heart, 
your beat's 
sometimes like
a...

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If I should give up my Heavenly dreams,
could I ever again wear angel's wings?
Through a purple haze of golden moons,
I swirl past stars that contain angel's rooms.
If I should give up my angel's wings,
could I...

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Wicked
Young minds
They delude innocence
Forever they act sovereign
Ameer

Childish
Their behavior
Often they clamor
Wail their emotions behemoth
Dour

Play
With gesture
Time befriend rejoice
Busied with oneirisms foretold
Pollyannaish

Cozened
Hatful alibis
Bebop their paroles
Disputes often looked battles
Liberty

Bored
By pages
Books limned cartoons
Brains mattered to creations
Jejune

Love
Yet teemed
Maneuvered by care
Parents seek...

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