Ragtime Poems - Poems about Ragtime

...I was a college music teacher, engaged in pitch, tempo, rhythm and melody, As lavish planets dance around a golden star, with the zeal of fuchsia fidelity. I taught harmony, vocals and singing, a......Read the rest...

... The National Science Foundation outsources to Colleges, today's mental assassins to secretly censor you using "wisedex" among other things. "Wisedex" is in the shadows of academia, a dee......Read the rest...

...Remember when you were a fleeting thought? Back when your smile was unremarkable? Your ocean eyes not yet part of the plot? Before your name caused that unconscious beam? And now I let you go, ......Read the rest...

...(Scott Joplin 1868-1917) I am highly entertained though I see through the window what lies there: yes, dark cloud hovers above our street like a piece of rag. But we admire contrari......Read the rest...

...Until the Darkness Returns David J Walker This is taking forever Said the wall clock as if annoyed by time Stop watching the time clock The stopwatch shouted ironically Unable to con......Read the rest...

...Let's get up and make a stand It’s time to appease the First World Man He’s got his looks and he’s got his books It’s time to hang the rich from hooks It’s ragtime for nobility A dirty call-to......Read the rest...

...I found the piano for me You must think that I'm lonely Classical music, let's talk about classical music Just stop your waiting Popping at night I found the piano for me We are partiti......Read the rest...

...Is there a reason I love rhyme? When critics now think it a crime: "Rhymed poetry's not worth a dime, It's as old-fashioned as ragtime, Free verse poems are most sublime." Yet I'm still......Read the rest...

...Corsican sand on the Rio Grande Simon Bolivar weeps the night asleep Renegade cycles hogs gone mild Gehinnom's Mayor Timothy Leary's child Zebras abound in Peppermint Land Ala......Read the rest...

...I am a silent movie, a corny melodrama played in black and white with an observable flicker. A little tramp accompanied by ragtime piano. You are pure A-list Technicolor, Dolby digital T......Read the rest...

...Hobgoblin in the gutter under canopy of midnight, magic brew of muti without rein. Shadow figure torchon, darting half-light dare. Spine chilling droplets wobble slowly down drains, rusty copper......Read the rest...

...Digits tap dancing across lands of black and white; tip-toeing taps across keyboard of an old saloon upright. Sounds of crescendo eco across the plains, of a dust-laden old ghost town......Read the rest...

...Grave Music- - When I thought of music Those the song never tuning Musicians so are cocooning Taking thy hymn from out my heart That moment my soul grew routine Just what does......Read the rest...

...seeing you across the dance room floor watching your mouth moving to a two step but the music is too loud so i sign but you don't know that language so i try charades but can't s......Read the rest...

...I can't help tapping my feet to that rhythm and off-beat, bright piano sounds so sweet, brings bounciness to my mind when I hear that old ragtime. Joplin sure can entertain, takes maple leave......Read the rest...