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 wear sleek cobalt
Where soulbeats throb from smoky bars
Blue moods of so what
Sway like humid lovers on rainy nights
To the clink of ice in shot glasses
And afterhours shades of whisky, sweat and old scotch -
Smooth as muted cool
Luxurious tracks of indigo distilled intimacy
Stretch without strict resolutions
Improv exhales unashamed sketches
Of empty barstools and empty arms
As modes of blue undress into serendipity
When newborn sounds wrap limbs around
Old scores of stale melodic staves
Steady bass lines underscore mellow beats
Unperturbed ruminating pulse,
Slow percussive murmurs
Like rhythmic subways of all blues slow walking
With mystic measures of ebb and neap attraction -
A perpetual kiss slides slow into a kind of blue.
Categories:
rifs, blue, music,
Form: Free verse
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
Jeweled mood rhythmic expression
Of reflection -
Songs ingénue
In dusky blues
Inspired by the iconic jazz pieces Kind of Blue and Mood Indigo
7-23-21
Contest: Twelve Lines in Rhyme
Sponsor: Joseph May
Categories:
rifs, blue, color, music, night,
Form: Rhyme