Short Gershwin Poems

an old tune
floats through my mind
hoping for a space
between Gershwin and Bach
but the valet parks it in pop...

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Exciting visions
  of the urban scene
captured in music
    Joyous notes
that is Gershwin
   My father passed away 4 years ago
He used to thrill us with his piano 
   he played the jazz master's work 
miss the man so much...

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Found a feather today -- 
a pen of the great, soaring
past, of creative thoughts yielding
dips immortal...indelible on time
were the hands
of a Poe and Mozart

for me, the world stopped

after the Lights of Dickerson and 
Gershwin...

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Exciting tunes
    of a city
  captured in music
Dance the mental dance
    we have know
         electric  lights appear in 
       our mind
  Shining lights 
Multi colored shining lights
     notes flying
through the air
        yes, we will find joy 
in the heart of the metropolis...

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Danced with
Conceived and born
Sung to and nursed
On a downy soft quilt

Transfused with
Vibrations of Ellington
Basie, Crosby, Waller
Goodman and Armstrong

Skyrocketed spiritually 
By Kern and Carmichael
Porter, Gershwin and Berlin

Thanks Mom and Dad
For the beautiful music
We made together
On that bed of downy softness...

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