Long Razzmatazz Poems

Don't you think that this title is darkly divine?
But, of course, there will have to be weirdness that’s funny,
Though my nightmares are many and have complex arcs
There’s some risk here I might have to work...

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Her cognition is sporadic
Longing for her to relax
And display calm tactics
Lay on my chest like it’s a hammock
When she isn't calm
I can't stand it
Cause behaviors like these in women
Can easily become habits
It won't happen to...

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Narrator:  I take you now inside the mind of a ten year old miniature Eskimo dog who
 lives happily inside a Rambler house with a fenced back yard that serves as his special 
area...

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Growth should be the ultimate criterion,
nucleus and kernel of every annual pledge,
for myself and other people who might gain,
from a heartfelt commitment such as mine,
that monumental new year down the clock aptly named,
global village stepping...

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Genesis resplendent to me – a garden of Eden resident atheist

Avast abundance of life forms
doth snapchat and buzzfeed
a motley fool of indiscriminate creed
resembled yours truly freed
from those scrambling greed
dully sending hotmail google
eyed hungrily ogling indeed
six...

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Autumnal hint faintly tinges air 
finding this mortal 
     bewitched by blare 
ring refulgent radiance, 

      which quiets viz cheer
ring, harkening murmuring analogous,
   ...

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The rain---sounds like catapults fired on our roof 
drops like palm kernels---splash on the back cover
 of our black pots, Stamping the roof like horse 
galloping on a...

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Written: August 10, 2023
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In the late summer's embrace, I find solace.
Bathing in the sun's warmth—nature's grace
The world apricates, as I do in kind,
A symbiotic peace, an eternal bind

Two silhouettes tested harsh jazz,
Waltzing in the field,...

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They say Cabernet Sauvignon pairs nicely with steak
Pinotage, they reckon, for cheese
Tempranillo is the choice for Mexican grub
But, I'm somewhat easier to please

I've tried a fair few "Reds", on a weekend night
While chilling to some...

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Razzmatazz. A long lost song
From a long lost band, Pulp
Freed from your Orange Juice,
Hailing from Scotland, who’s final king
Was Forest Whittaker, trophy winner
The only one Cleveland’s ever seen (but apparently, it rocks)
With its gray skied...

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 JACK FROST.  


           
              J ourneyer of jazzy winter in...

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One Christmas, hubbie lost his job,
and we were feeling sad
when at the pound, we found a cat
that helped me to feel glad.

We never knew what age she was.
All we knew was that
she’d lived with dogs...

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Behind barbed-wire fences
Of security-estate isolation
The rich and the poor
Divided the nation

The lines were drawn
The cartoons were sketched
As luxurious green lawns
In shantytowns far-fetched

As the echoes of jazz
From Sophiatown
Faded razzmatazz
As we descended down

Where Rabbi and Imam, too
Tipped...

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I saw you with some other friends
At  Methodist park merrily masquerading
As someone incognito on a clear day 
Full of Sun.

How could you not notice me?
You see I'm the one 
Filled with razzmatazz, 
Dazzling pizzazz...

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You used to
lovingly coax my
keys with your
melodies
flirt and tease so playfully
high-note hitting glee

We enjoyed
taking tunes apart
upside down
inside out
syncopated Beethoven
bobbidy-boo beats

No small feat
with shimmy and shake
boogie, blues
jazz and all
the razzmatazz I could take
late nights wide awake

You...

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Fuss and frills filled the air
    thickening aroma of anticipation
Reams of rainbow shades strutted on silver spurs
     merchandising motley of mosaic dreams

Packaged in blazing tones intensely tinged
 ...

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Having been married the year before
Christine and I drove a Vauxhall Chevette
but it was now past its best years
so decided on buying new to collect

Our choice was a Vauxhall Nova
lovely blue colour with a good...

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Echoes of 52nd Street

In the beginning was the Word . . .
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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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Dear Kitty friend, the first day that we met
I noticed right away how sleek you were.
From head to tiny paws, you were a jet
black, and soft to the touch was your smooth fur!

I brought you...

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Understated, that's the way 
we put on the Ritz in country towns.
Flashing bellies, no no no.
We do the Ritz in our own way.

It's glamorous, for sure
in country towns -
but open wallets, no no no...
Not the...

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River, oil, black sludge, bubbles of despair!
Crystal clear stream once, when I was a lad!
Man’s dreaded waste, pollutes beyond repair!
Smoke, stench, spreads in town, water can’t be had!

Greed of man floods across, splashes all land!
Million...

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      Heroines fought battles, overcame
      hardships to proclaim victory
      Lena's sedentary reel, same same 
     ...

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A closer look at a fantastic word
And no, I’m not talking in bafflegab
To not repeat this speak is just absurd

To absquatulate like a fracas herd
Throw a foofaraw over a little jab
A closer look at a...

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I was Number One who fell for Jazz,
Other Genres ranking Razzmatazz 
No finer sacrifice in Hard Rock;
If you demeaned Jazz, my gun I’d cock…

I laud the Great Lot Yanni’s Jazz has;
Bob’s keyboard that conveys one...

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You've all heard the expression

“He shoots straight from the hip!”

The official dictionary translation...

“To speak directly or frankly”

Actually I would hope this applies to yours truly

No jazzing, no messing around, no hidden agendas

What you see is...

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