Long Combines Poems

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Premium Member Jazz Creed

Puttin’ it all together, no room for squares, ya dig/time slides into somethin’ heavy and the groovers are here/
 the jazz creeper solo, struttin’ funk bumpin’, black fire lit from the inside out,  Man, it was a city block of sound/
Jazz improvisation listens to the spontaneous birth of melodies, rhythms, and harmonies/
sprung in real-time, right on the edge of the bandstand/ conversation between hands, breath, horn, bass, and the jazz  room club/
Dexter Gordon in the shadows, Lonnie Liston Smith whispering keys blowin' high Building solos with a logical sequence of musical phrases/
 Tony Williams riding the ride symbol,  snare drum popin' the infinite stone cold rhythm walk of free jazz/
Larry Young lighting up the organ like a flying meteor/  man, His atmospheric playing covers the  Earth,/
Master Bebopers walk a high  wire between learned language and wild grace/personal voice poking through the shared scaffold of not knowin' what is next, but just blowin' free to be jazz/, you hear it in the way a note leans on the next/carries you off into nowhere land with a drink in your hand/ Gone, baby gone like way gone/
a soul jazz funkified phrase that refuses to be clean but combines the classic language with the more " modern" sound of jazz/    A city feel, a spiritual pulse, the sense of a bigger crowd in the corner bar where the spirit lingers, and the groove does not quit/ The Real gone tenor man/ his heartbeat says yes to risk/ always balancing musical structure with the moment, plan to surprise/the old maps of chords bending to the moonlight of invention/In every touch of the keyboard, every drum hit, every horn inhale/ every smokey whale
There’s a doorway to somewhere new—yet somehow familiar/
a dialogue between memory and invention, a dance with possibility/So we ride the breaks, we breathe in the vibe of the day, we trust the moment we let the room answer back with its own echo/until the music feels like a story we’re all writing together/a chorus of names, a chorus of voices, a chorus of tomorrowThat, at the end, is jazz/
 The art of balancing the learned with the alive, the safety of the chart and the danger of the spark of Jazz improvisation   is always at the fingertips of the jazz masters/the moment when a crowd becomes a chorus, and the solo becomes a home."
© Tony Adamo  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Wild Date

They married in their own garden under the canopy of a Wild Date Tree

An indigenous plant standing tall for sweetness and benevolent spirits

This one untamed and miraculously withstanding droughts in the City of Gold

It gave meaning to their union which had begun with similar unbroken desire


A small bonfire at midday crackled with pure passion and unified souls

It was warm in their hearts and droplets of faith embraced the heat

Shadows of yesteryear’s clouds had retreated from sorrow and sadness

Not long ago the two lovers had eloped into sunshine and started again


A small party of family and friends sat on the grass casually dressed

The bride in an attire from Camden market wore a rose petal crown

That matched the floral display on his colourful shirt which was in date

With Hippie dreams and nostalgic reverberation of rebellion and Peace


Her Anglican priest had refused to wed them ‘I need to ask my bishop

Who would have to absolve you from the sin of divorce and new love’

They found a Lutheran pastor who arrived dressed in African garb

Aptly with crash helmet and Harley Davidson with a roar to his engine


The lovers had decided against fireworks because they would resemble

Gunshots rather endemic in Johannesburg for all the wrong reasons

Sparklers would do nicely and sky lanterns floated into heaven above

Reached high rising feelings released bright unequivocal compassion


‘We honour our ancestors with all their beauty and divine guidance’

They proposed followed by clapping of hands and a rain dance’s vows

The sun sent its rays to bless everyone in the congregation of well-wishers

When it started to rain at the same time they danced naked in the spray


When such water and solar power combines at such a meaningful time and

Forms a rainbow presiding over the ceremony it’s called monkey’s wedding

And its display brings grace and good luck to withstand vagaries and misfortune

With a ring he gave her a wild date as the fruit never failed to deliver its promise



01st July 2019

Premium Member Something Different An Abstract Coloured Poem

the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation
as
the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical
rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine;
unseen
the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,
reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon
the earth green;
bright mosaic gold
mottled the sallow sorrel
virent yellow,oak stained
the pale apricot;
while
blood red,reddish russet
dotted the olive lind;
freckled crimson,
a chestnut maroon,
on fuchsias faded apple green
as burnt umber sank deep
into its sanguine slumber.

This a favourite poem because it combines my two hobbies art and poetry

Premium Member Celebrate Life - the Terzanelle Style

~Celebrate Life~
(Terzanelle)


Life's too short so don't waste away 
Listen to the music in heart
Life's too short so don't waste away 

There'll be songs till things start fall apart 
Life's not sometimes what seems to be 
Listen to the music in heart 

You can do it, love,hope, dream, see 
Celebrate life,  open heart wide 
Life's not sometimes what seems to be 

Time doesn't wait so don't let it slide 
Show those around you love, care, mind 
Celebrate life, open heart wide 

Step into the light don't be blind 
Regain dreams and mountains climb 
Show those around you love, care, mind 

Reach out to God and pray all time 
Regain dreams and mountains climb 
Life's too short so don't waste away 
Life's too short so don't waste away. 


Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014



January.03.2017


So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)

-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV)

- Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer
Romans 12: 12 ( NIV )

-The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
 Exodus  14: 13  ( NIV )


~Author's  Notes:

The "Terzanelle" is a poetry form or style which combines  two very popular  Italian  poetry  forms : And that's  the Villanelle and the Terza Rima forms, 
and what you get from out of this  amazing combination of course  is  a " Terzanelle ".

Alone but not forever

Title: "Alone (The Diss)"




Yo, you’re just a ghost in this love song, no cost—
Starving for attention like a broke man at a loss,
You’re texting like a siren, but your signals are lost—
I’m the storm, you’re the flicker, you’ll never hold me, kid.
Your “slow night” is a joke, I’m out here resettin’,
Sippin’ on success while you’re still overspending—
You’re a whisper behind a door, I’m the kick-in’ it—
“Get to know you”? Nah, I’d rather just quit it.




(Hook: Pop Swagger)
How do you get me alone?
You’re the ghost, I’m the throne—
Pop the tag, but I own this zone,
You’re the night, I’m the dawn…




You’re a landline, dead line, stuck in the past—
I’m the Wi-Fi, the future, you’re just a crash.
Your love’s a bad mixtape, I’m the platinum press—
Now beg for a feature? Girl, that’s a waste.




(Hook: Pop Swagger)
How do you get me alone?
You’re the ghost, I’m the throne—
Pop the tag, but I own this zone,
You’re the night, I’m the dawn…




[Outro Zinger]
Now check your texts—still no ring, no reply—
Guess you’ll rot in your “alone,” kid. I’m gone.






Style Notes: Combines Mac Miller’s smooth wit with battle rap ferocity, using tech metaphors and flipped hooks for that "All Year" pop swagger. The diss pivots from pity to power, turning vulnerability into a punchline.
Form: Lyric


Premium Member S:A:D

Fifth season, where nothing happens 
my entire outlook, all but gone 
No winter, summer, fall, or spring 
mother nature’s, totally withdrawn 

Abandoned earth, a withered sky
magnetic field, finally succumbs 
Rotation stagnant, orbit decaying 
and a moon, replaced by the numb

On a rogue planet, drifting alone
across the wilderness of space 
A cinder block, without an ember
caught in, event horizon embrace 

Oh come what may, singularity 
headlong, sideways, no reverse 
Fast tracked, slowly to oblivion 
black holes make sense, if perverse

Folds of time, overlap all around 
smooth and crumple, entwines
In the vortex, I give myself freely 
to infinity, the SAD combines. 


#Seasonal Affected Disorder# = SAD

The Fifth Season Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anthony Biaanco 
11/03/22
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Quiet Please

Quiet Please                                                                                                                                                            

I was born and grew up on the relatively quiet side of the planet.                                   Nevertheless, there was a train line right through the heart of town.
And there were also cotton gins, tractors, and lots of farm machinery.
Obviously, we were not exactly 'noise free'; but basically, the noise I heard most were an occasional barking dog, crickets, bull frogs, and rooster crows.

After high school, I relocated to a very large northern city by a great lake.               Suddenly, all my familiar noises of crickets, frogs, and roosters were gone.         
Without warning, the sounds of combines and crop dusting planes disappeared                                       They were replaced by commuter buses, automobile horns, sirens, and garbage trucks.                

In my late 20's, I moved again to a large western city by the Bay and the Pacific. There, for 30 days, my family and I resided in a motel embraced by a street car rail line.  Also there, we were annoyed by rap and rock from loud radios, and more  sirens.  But also there, we slept sweetly by the ocean waves and fog horns; gentler noises.
03082017 PS Contest, The Noises, Shadow Hamilton
Form: Narrative

X, In Memoriam

Memory being witnessed as resistance.
Time’s accessory brings assistance in a form of sequence;
mercy given through softened lips of the livid,
built in an architecture preceding reminiscence.

We speak to dismiss
a weakness that lives;
linguistics
echoing
survival of the fittest
in patterns
of disagreement.

To fit with the structure of memory
is to be among the instance

where an alignment
of a version of “you”
combines with that of what
perpetuates persistence;

an alliance almost intrinsic.

Leading identity into these constraints,
invalidating any and all external contradictions.

I can't be certain,
but some will find this
as an achievement.

So what follows
is determination in the loss of patience,
without need of declaring mind in the presence;
vows of confidence representing independence.

Imagine it as hope for a new light,
but dreams too bright
have their own reflections
of what can lead to
a new kind of blindness;
Let it not smear your own image.

All of these actions must be fueled with their ignitions,

and if it be of a power, then this truth will reveal
with the response to a pressure beginning
to grow, while it's assumed another must diminish.

It all makes me wonder,
even if it were to grow toward a dead-end path,
would fairness be a quality of calling it misled?
Or rather, would it be a charitable indecence?

What we seek out we will find,
so we should not want a power we call corrupt,
unless its corruption in us that thrives.

Alternate a replacement with 
something closer,
something akin to be labeled as divine.

We speak.

And so we live.
And so we die.

Let us not rid ourselves of such a fine gift.
Let us prosper for tomorrow to get it right.
© Noah Piet  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Neighbours

A resilient addict with corona

Believes he is immune as a stoner

Puts Mary Jane on the mask

And Jimmy Beam in his flask

Fortifies his deluded persona


Quite soon though his supply is depleted

In withdrawal he feels so mistreated

Smokes sanitizer

And fertilizer

Wrapped in loo roll not to be defeated


Neurotransmitters cause havoc and pain

When the lockdown forces him to refrain

He chokes on puke bile

Transforms for a while

Self-harms until his bloody wrists are slain


Meanwhile a former spirits abuser

Thinks back to awful years as a boozer

No more hangover

Craving is over

She's past being a paranoid looser


Seclusion focusses on true virtues

In quarantined times of imposed curfews

She draws a frontier

Clean sober and clear

Freedom of sound mind with nothing to loose


She combines pure logic and emotions

Does no longer rely on fake potions

She does not request

Others to detest

But found her soul and abstinent notion


09th April 2020
Form: Limerick

Breathtaking

Bring me excitement the fun of the fair
Roaring with laughter at the fun house's mirror covered walls  
Excitement at riding the merry go round
Acrobats juggling, you just cant help put stop and stare
Tombola prizes tucked under arms  
Hotdogs with onions, and mustard stained cloths 
Tickets to ride and memory's galore
All of the laughter and  music combines
Kandy floss moustache's on pretty girls smiles
Illuminated stalls with there flashing neon signs
Nothing compares to a night at the fair 
Great for your soul and it leaves you breathless for more. 





comp entry 0903/2016
fun
Form: Acrostic

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