Short Jives Poems

old-timers tea dance-
everyone skip-jives
in slow-motion...

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There was a beekeeper named Jives
Who found a rash on his thighs.
The doctor said be at peace,
Nothing to fear in the least.
You simply have too many hives....

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Ethereal calico cat has eighteen lives
Nine for other felines, but this kind jives
She is mystically, magically surreal,
Surviving much longer; it’s a calico deal....

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JAZZ

Just eighty-four, Grandma
Jives to Michael Jackson,
Jogging memories of
Jumping into fox trots
Jolts of Charleston dance,
Joyous beat of brass bands,
Jubilant flapper times.

October 14, 2020...

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Jewel is largest orb,
Jazzed third bright in night sky,
Juts in fifth place from sun.
Joins name of Roman god.
Jam rules Sag and Pisces;
Jells expansion and grace,
Jives like a lucky star.




March 5, 2017

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Saxophone ripples on
Smokey tunes blowing hot
Sizzling flamed mood...it's jazz!
Smooth notes intoxicate
Swirling like Coltraine's grind,
Soulful trance whips my breath...
Spice of night, weekend jives!


~
Pleiades 2 Contest of Joseph May
10/15/2020...

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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

10-14-20
Contest: Pleiades – Music
Sponsor: Joseph May
Dedicated to Miles Davis; Kind of Blue
Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo...

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Be optimistic rather than fatalistic.
Don't squander and be elated hedonistic.

Retain moving; only the obdurate survive.
Hand jives your way to contrive.

Slump or solidity must be omitted. 
Wear awe mood when having moved. 

Don't be shy in taking elitism.
Self-reliance is a wedge of realism....

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Ron-- dashing mate of adult years
With zest for  life so free;
Our ventures a potion!
My chum jives despite weary limbs !
In town at sixty-three -
We'll dunk food, share beer- tales



Contest by nette onclaud, Keep It Brief
2 Aug 2019
"I'm having an old friend for dinner."
The Silence of the Lambs, 1991

reviewed www.howmanysyllables...

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The girl in me pirouettes without care,
allowing hips' gait on the blue of rocks
as lush wings reel and orbit from nowhere...
O  my toes click,  a magic that unlocks
a host of robins slip-sliding away
in a meadow which airbrushes the night;
when birdsong echoes low, " be young...good day!"
Till finally, my jives end with delight.



9/4/2019
Line Gauthier's Swagger Contest...

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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...

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Walking the streets up and down,
my own image fades on car mirrors.
A wandering ghost with no bound,
sadly cut by invisible scissors.

What in life I would call disgrace,
come to me in sharp knives.
This cold winter that eats my face,
with no color and no jives.

And even the more I try to scape,
there is no run away for me,
from this vague space called life.

No matter what path I shall take,
I find no one there but thee,
for the no one me lacking rife....

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A beautiful creation -delighting eyes  for glittering  happiness, 
Impetuously  jives kindred’s  lifelong moments, 
nature’s omnipresent picturesqueness
quiet , resplendent smiles  to us
ventilation whirls,
eXhilarating,
yielding  
zing






March 1, 2013 9am
©2013by Leonora Galinta



Tenth Place
Contest: Go Green
Judged: 3/12/13
Poet Sponsor: Poet Sandy Ivy D.

Seventh Place
Contest: 100% Nature
Judged: 3/1/13
Poet Sponsor: Greatest Poet PD...

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Loving touches of masculine hands
Sweeping hair away from face
Raising Goose bumps of Love
Simply caressing an embrace

Simple pleasures of you and me
In a glance of defining eyes
To seal with passionate kissing
Resting body's after jives 

Star struck with your moves
Grooving to my every beat
In tune with my mood
Conversational melody 

Swept right off my feet
Intentional actions intertwine
Attention to the marine
Collecting lovers reservoir 

Written 1/17/2016...

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