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Miles Davis Poems - Poems about Miles Davis

Premium Member WEST COAST JAZZ
...You can smell jazz, if you got hip to the sound, like on “Camera Three” a TV program in the 50s/ a 1956 episode featuring The Gerry Mulligan Quartet in black -N- white/ many jazz clubs come and......

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Categories: miles davis, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member Jazz Alive
...Spoken Word Poetry: JAZZ ALIVE Man alive, and this ain’t no jive, I’m diggin’ on jazz to stay alive/ East Coast rhythms from the 50’s and 60’s, in the heart of the city, where the music breaths/ ......

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Categories: miles davis, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium Member Celestial Zodiac Jazz
...Celestial Zodiac Jazz In the constellation of sound, Where Miles Davis breathes celestial blue/ A Gemini's whim dances through the air/His notes like shooting stars Twisting notes like a lover......

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Categories: miles davis, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member As She Lit the Candle
...She lit the candle in evening’s repose then held the pages bound and decorated in story-fabled paper coverings. She buried her head in the words of others. Arms outstretched and folded on a pil......

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Categories: miles davis, appreciation, books, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Grand Dragon Press
...Some may say grand dragon others grand wizard either or it began in 60s everything was a bit chaotic the death of John f Kennedy Bobby Kennedy pope John XXlll my birth and Martin Luther kings famous ......

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Categories: miles davis, allah,
Form: Quintain (English)



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 inste......

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Categories: miles davis, color, sea,
Form: Haiku
Surface Tension
...Surface tension I wrote The many warning signs, That somehow satisfied us two Hooked on a note, Choked out of the freedom We both could have known Where there were blues in his eyes. Ma......

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Categories: miles davis, abuse, addiction, analogy, blue,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 b......

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Categories: miles davis, art, imagination, music,
Form: Footle
Premium Member 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' ki......

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Categories: miles davis, blue, color, heart, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
A Song With No Name
...A Song With no Name From my grandfather and my dad and performed by their son and grandson, me. It was an old melody with no name of a ballad my grandfather wrote a long time ago. The melody was s......

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Categories: miles davis, father, grandfather, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Cool - Tanka 63
... Eccentric but cool A vanguard of modern jazz Boldly blowing past bebop ......

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Categories: miles davis, appreciation, art, black african
Form: Tanka
Premium Member 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? Expre......

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Categories: miles davis, music, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: miles davis, music,
Form: Pleiades
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: miles davis, baseball, feelings, heaven, loss,
Form: Free verse
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 ......

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Categories: miles davis, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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