Modal Poems - Poems about Modal

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/
...

Categories: modal, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

Ashen Aqualung

...Daddy's specter plectrums mercilessly
Fraying my nerves raw
with oxidized guitar strings.
my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage
onto clay vinyl grooves
s p i n n i n g
endless nights
of
suffoca...

Categories: modal, abuse, father son, mental
Form: Free verse

Saxumpet

...Charlie and Louis
John and Miles
Bebop to Modal
Two different styles

Soul passions blowing
Harmonically through horns
Notes and chords flowing
One world and two forms

Two different times
...

Categories: modal, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Kind of Blue

...Kind of Blue…

Slinking into a still hue of blues 
Haunting trumpets dart in and out
Like taxi horns in freeloading traffic
And cling like silk onto full figured rifs 
When winsome modal notes ...

Categories: modal, blue, music,
Form: Free verse

The Language of Blue

...The Language of Blue

Sinking into the lyrical language of blue
Prime layers of still solitude speak
 With muted voices
  In sapphire soprano rhapsodies,
Lines of bass blushes, electric flecks ...

Categories: modal, blue, language, music,
Form: Free verse

Kind of Blue In Mood Indigo

...Kind of Blue in Mood Indigo

Feelin’ kinda blue irony ~
Jazz harmony
In wailing rifs
Of blues mischief

Modal mood indigo moonlight
Jives at midnight ~
Juxtaposes 
Notes with roses

Jewel...

Categories: modal, blue, color, music, night,
Form: Rhyme

Other Muse

...Other Muse

Interwoven two inspirations at play
Wrapped in a beguiling smile of embrace
Lyrical rhythms enchant nature’s traits
Graceful melody roams music’s landscapes.

Through hymns thunder...

Categories: modal, muse, music,
Form: Rhyme

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...

Categories: modal, music,
Form: Pleiades

Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

...Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, 
When I was twelve and he fourteen, 
It took away his ambitions, 
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam. 

I u...

Categories: modal, atheist, cancer, health, prayer,
Form: Rhyme

Modal Verbs

...Savez vous planter les choux 
A la mode de chez nous?
(French nursery rhyme)

You should eat your cabbage up my son
It's really quite delicious
May I forego the pleasure Ma
To me it is pernici...

Categories: modal, language,
Form: Rhyme

For Miles

...Haunting notes
Pacify enchanted souls
Modal blues palliate
The most wicked of heart...

For Miles Davis....

Categories: modal, music
Form: I do not know?

Jingle Venom Tapasya Resume Sun Patriotism

...Venom resumes X 3
Suryas out of his basket indeed,
Even good boys are naughty, Sajni,
elevation creatonism,
mantra stance style,
the sun moons life,
he locks his eyes for an eternal rain dance,...

Categories: modal, socialsun,
Form: Verse