Louis Armstrong Poems - Poems about Louis Armstrong

All that jazz

...
all that jazz

Hello Dolly, I must confess
those Louis Armstrong tunes
keep churning in my head

I've had Georgia on my mind
since that night we danced cheek to cheek
when we shared a kiss ...

What A Wonderful World

...

Okay time for some upbeat stuff
And I'm just the guy that can bring it
Mr. Happy is what some people call me
Is there any other way to be?
The world is filled with nasties
There's en...

Music Swap

...Quote:""One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Louis Armstrong

In my mind, depths transcend, 
Music weaves, divine blend, 
Sorrow, hope, intertwined, 
depths transce...

'What A Wonderful World'

...Louis Armstrong …
a class by himself
Not Dixie or Jazz
but much deeper felt

Growing better with age
his music enthralls
If fourteen or forty
his melodies call

Both Ella and Ray
are seate...

Satchmo's Trumpet - Homage To Louis Armstrong

...From afar a sound of "Blues" so tender
Like Satchmo strumming his trumpet
His loud voice calling us together
Makes me in verses break into yesterday

Oh Louis...raise your voice to everyone
Mak...

A Most Thoughtful Balladeer, Endeared: Mr Tony Bennet Tribute

..."YES! THERE ARE MANY SINGERS WITH GREAT VOICES...
JUST THEIR MERE SOUND, ALONE, TELLS US THAT THEY CAN HOLD A NOTE AND CONFIDENTLY "CARRY A TUNE!"

BUT...

WHAT ABOUT A SINGER, WHOM WHEN THEY EN...

A Poem For My Father

...#Here WE are, There WE were...

I AM Your Seed. 

Today, I won't UNRAVEL the Damaged Weeds...
There's An ABUNDANCE Of New Ones That Multiplies At OUR Feet....
STEADFAST. 
"THEY'LL OUTLAST US."...

Jazz - Pleiades

...Just listen to Satchmo,
      Jams by Duke Ellington,
    James Clay's moving tenor
  John Coltrane's fine Post-Bop
       Joyous uptempo tunes...
  ...

Jazz Is Jazz

...
Hot can be
cool, and
cool can be
hot, and 
each can be 
both.  But
hot or cool,
man, jazz is
jazz			-- Louis Armstrong


Jazz is
cold feet on the
kitchen floor
or

a hot sl...

Convenience Afforded Microwave

...Especially one courteously wrapped ably
anonymously gifted to
an aspiring gourmet Chef Boyardee
i.e. not surprisingly... revealing mystery
person none other than...
yepper namely me.

Moost an...

Wonderful World

...universal awe
brilliance is omnipresent
love in its splendor

Song:  It's A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Date: 2nd September 2019

Contest: Sing Me A Senryu
Sponsor: Maureen McGreavy...

My Childhood Wiseman

...louis armstrong
given a diplomatic license
what a wonderful world
blue berry hill
moon river
hello dolly
summertime
mack the knife
cheek to cheek
when the saints
memories
go missing


s...

A Little Knowledge

...A Little Knowledge

My son just started big school and now he knows it all
He says that all the laws are made by bloody Sid E. Hall
We frowned at his bad language and that made him assure us
He’...

The Borrower

...Is my awareness limited by my bad habits?
Within the absence of engine sounds I find time to sigh
I should be searching for the cultivators of my net dreams
Instead I’m buying paper for the books ...

Play Louis Armstrong

...now is all there is,
that's the nature of the beast,
relatively speaking
advantaging 'those' who control time...
now is a situation of absence and meaning
'those'...are us and our day to day rou...

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