Long Bojangles Poems

I once saw a man one early misty winter morning. He was crossing at the intersection as I was preparing to make a U turn.  Upon seeing him, not in worn out shoes, but...

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I flip the history of Bojangles
On a cool Sunday evening
Los Angeles coming down
A flow of oboes breathing
Through the lung of the street
The hobo not stopping for air
Fingers moving in a dance
Across the strings of consciousness
Milking...

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I believe one of the gifts we have been given as we live life day to day
is the ability to discover beauty in every moment along the way.

I believe if we’ are waiting for that...

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We've all seen and heard of amazing feats over the years,
That have elicited our respect, applause and raucous cheers!
Brave souls have scaled Mount Everest, others are skilled at skeets,
While others gracefully excelled with their amazing...

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We were blessed to visit with our grandchildren 
and had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day
We ate, we laughed, we played a game
before they went on their way.

Two of our grandchildren are at the University of Florida
Three...

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Although it was written and recorded in 1968,
I think that it was the late 80's when I first heard it.
First, arrested by it; later captured; then embraced.
For more than 30 years, I have loved that...

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Mr Ayers staggers across
The evening news
Unwrapped
Like a bojangles
from his blues
Pictures of things to fly
Tangled in the hair
Like bats
Lips on golden fruits
His finger moves
And from the basoon rise
A string
Of melodies blending
on surprise.

Do not stereotype the sound
Classic...

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When it rains
the grass grows greener
and thick like a forest of trees 
in my back yard
Mr. Bojangles, the housecat 
slowly stalks its prey 
of wizard-like lizards scattering away.

With nothing but the sounds of
crickets and cicadas
heard...

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And he dragged her to the floor  
to Porter's 'Begin The Beguine‘,
swaying to the sultry rhythm
without missing a beat.
  
As the orchestra shifted to Jobim
paying tribute to an Ipanema girl,
he seduced and she...

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I netted a word today

spritzing in the back of mind,

examined it from angles:

politically, like stars and spangles

rhythmically, like Mr. Bojangles

spiritually, like sin~ the foolish soul
entangles
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Some writes simply
start that way, a little
prick, a piercing needle,

a little...

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You walked on this earth
with a cross upon your shoulder.
You waltzed into Heaven
with a harp in your hands
you left us with a message
that will help us to grow older~
and a trail that we can follow
by...

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California Dreamin…
Momma Told Me Not To Come
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Will Anybody Really Know What Time Has Spun

Hotel California…
Its Chain Gang wearing thin
Searching for an American Woman
Blowin In The Wind

Bill Bojangles Robinson…
preaching Fire...

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Referee Skeleton was reluctant to join his brother
But he was urged by his sister, father and mother
So, he went to the speak easy and danced the night away
With Bojangles, his brother, who knows how to...

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