Miles Davis Poems | Examples

The Caged Bird Still Sings

Written By:  D. Collins 7/7/25


I know the names of some of the greatest to ever dawn black skin.
Dr. Charles Drew, Miles Davis, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.
Generations from now their achievements will be overlooked.
Due to coordinated efforts to remove them from history books.


There were the Buffalo Soldiers and Tuskegee Airmen.
Maya Angelou and descriptive writings of Toni Morrison.
We had Dr. Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali.
Who gave hope to a population of people like me.


We've endured the longest deprivation mankind has faced.
You cannot remove something that refuses to be erased.
We've heard broken promises that never came about.
The Caged Bird Still Sings loudly from the top of the mount.

Aqua's Kind of Blue in Green

Aqua's Kind of Blue in Green

Cool white edge wave frill
Floats over aqua's blue green
Deep blue penumbra

First posted 30/1/2015
Haiku did not originally have titles, they were numbered instead,
From what I originally learnt about the format.
Aqua M poetry.
"Kind of Blue." Miles Davis.
I love listening to Jazz.

In a Silent Way

Sustained in dulcet fugue
blue waters 
converge inside 
moments of mountains
imbued with silent springs

Pouring illusive champagne dreams
rainbow arches
that impale the softness 
it sings bubbling pale perfect
birdsweet nectars

Daylight confronts
entering the city
rhythms of NOW
running to the urgency
emergency
lights flash into night 
beats of congruous conflict

Away
NOW stay
vending peace inside
moments of mountains
where blue waters
I disappear
In honeyed silence

July 16, 2023

Kind of Blue

What is that feelin'
Creepin' 'bout my heart,
I think its kind of blue
Breakin' me apart

Fallin' into pieces
How many a heart has,
Once throbbed with neon
And all that jazz

I'm feelin' kind of blue
Not deep enough to cry,
A solemn kind of blue
Don't need to wonder why

Revolving slowly into
This somber attitude, 
Azure leanin' on green
A pale, indigo mood

Muffled sounds carry
The smoothest baritone, 
Over a muted trumpet
And a sad, sad saxophone 

It's nothin' strange to me
Been right here before,
... Turn up the music
Slowly, close the door.

Cool - Tanka 63

                                        Eccentric but cool
                                        A vanguard of modern jazz
                                        Boldly blowing past bebop
                                        Challenging the status quo
                                        The magnetic Miles Davis

Poetryscapes

"Don't play what's there.
 Play what's not there."

Quote from Miles Davis, Jazz Musician

Writing poetry always in forms?
Why not write with the flow of life's
dancing waters?

Expressing yourself, freely as one
chooses.
Adds to a poem's bright light..
Bringing out brand new, lovely
"Poetryscapes"

The songs in your soul, that's my
biggest delight.
The inner landscape of you.!
So shining and true!


               12/9/2020

Jazz Pleiades

Jazz Pleiades

Just feelin’ kind of blue
Jazzy blues harmony
Joined modal indigo
Juxtaposes smooth joy -
Jaunty jives splashing notes -
Jiven’ through the moonlight -
Jeweled mood reflections

10-14-20
Contest: Pleiades – Music
Sponsor: Joseph May
Dedicated to Miles Davis; Kind of Blue
Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo

A Nirvana Sunrise and Matt Amish

  A Nirvana Sunrise and Matt Amish


   Cat whiskers, pen, notebook.
   Brain flowing with ideas blending
   with hazelnut coffee drenched scents.
   Soft notes of Miles Davis ride the air.

   Sitting here in complete divine joy!
   Grandson goes to human school soon.
   How I prayed to God for this!
   As I was penning for many nights,
   Under God's kindly, summer moon.

   Keep all poets loving and happy!
   Our own Matt Amish gone to great eternity 
   in the blue skies.
   To play on God's own baseball diamond.
   What a great way to open this MLB season!

             
              July 24, 2020
                 2pm PST

Miles Davis Statue, Alton Illinois

you lean back
like you always did 
and blow

wearing your bell bottom slacks
cool 
just like you always were

I hear you now
maybe I always did
I just didn't know

it's all I ever wanted  to do
paint a picture
lean back
see 
feel
and hear the music

so please understand
I'm not trying to be you

I'm just trying



© Whit Howland 2019

Jazz Kit Mix

Blow your gills out
with Miles Davis, mellow n kind of blue
relax in black 'n white ways 'n days

all; all the jazz kit

Go on a blues Holiday Billie
away with the Jones’s Nora
get some Rays with Charles

Lenard needs his raincoat
he’s Cohen, hallelujah
hey that’s no way to say goodbye

Jason’s going 93 million Mras
to see if he can Bossa Nova
Amy’s gone the Winehouse with Mr Jones

Ronnie’s off up Scott
not Holland seeking Jools
or Lincoln looking for Abbey

with all; all the jazz kit

Immersed in Ethel Waters
Roberta took some Flack
and Charlie had to Parker

Ellington was no Duke
to some, 50 years ensemble king
he said; it don’t mean a thing

Courtney doesn’t Pine or sing
Benny, who stomped at the Savoy
was a Goodman, not a bad boy

Eartha wanted to be evil
but was so good
for Christmas she got nothing
she got nothing for Christmas 

but had it all; all the jazz Kitt.

Improvisation

There are those who improvise within a structure, 
with four beats to the bar like down home blues, 
melodies and harmonies which stay within the fold, 
embellishing the tune how e'er they choose. 

Then there are cats who improvise to their own drummer, 
inventing sheets of sound no ear has heard, 
who bounce off one another, and break off from the norm, 
Sun Ra's Arkestra, Sonny Stitt and Bird. 

They wrote a new agenda, redistributing the forms, 
inventing broader schemes of interplay, 
as Jazz became a melting pot of signatures and styles, 
through Ragtime, Big Band, Bop, until today. 

America's indigenous art form, 
born here, appreciated everywhere, 
we are proud of all these marvelous musicians 
who bring joy and recognition for us all to share.

                 ********

...to Miles Davis in particular,  R.I.P.

Wonders of the World

Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Wonders Of The World
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  June/2015




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                   Black Wonders
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Delightful Day At the Met

A delightful day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
I saw medieval masterpieces and Plains Indians art
The weather was finally decent here in New York
I purchased a print of Miles Davis - the late, great jazz artist
I will hang it on my wall tomorrow
Music has a powerful effect on consciousness
Does it have more of an effect on the spirit than poetry does? 
Depends who you talk to 
Music and art bring relief from the information barrage
Read that thousands just died in Nepal 
due to an earthquake
in the Asian country of Nepal 
Take refuge - poetic brothers and sisters 
In the words which stream forth from the poets of the world

Unsustainable Thoughts I Forgot

This is an attempt to go further than thought can contain
Something like when prince got off on purple rain

We wander these unleveled streets
Without long barreled heat
Seeking pain to meet
But taste not defeat

My stride floats without feet
Not a crawl but a creep

The second coming of Langston Hughes
Miles Davis couldnt blow these blues
Constructing unbreakable foundations using words as tools
Life in the fourth quarter and breaking all the rules

Fear not the atmospere but what lurks beyond
Resemblance of a childhood thats to far gone
Some hearts cry out when others yawn
We built this city but wont stand upon.

Recipe For a Sunday Morning

A stirring lilac breeze for an alarm or,
alternatively, a morning dove's song

Minimum one, maximum two people
absolutely no minors

Several medium-firm pillows
a well-fluffed quilt, untucked

Two auto-frying eggs and strips of bacon
and auto-toasting toast, buttered, triangular

A large glass of freshly-squeezed (by someone else)
pink grapefruit juice

Espresso served in tiny cups à la volonté
steamed milk upon request

A stout newspaper, of which no more than 50%
can be composed of actual news

Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue" looping
in the background

One pair of loose fitting boxer shorts with t-shirt
one pair of bare feet, regardless of the season

And absolutely, positively
no planning whatsoever

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