Short Juke Poems

Juke box



Bobby socks!...

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JOHNNY RAY
I cry
girls sigh
AROUND THE CLOCK
juke box
room rocks
TAKE FIVE
still green
this theme
BLUE SUEDE
blue blue
my shoe...

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dropping a shilling 
         .. in  the snug juke box
   playing   Haley & Elvis
     around the clock-
jiving to music so unorthodox...

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we came here all raceist
meet new facets
we play  the juke box
it cost a dime a pop
i love to dance a lot
we also do much  more
at the
CANDY STORE...

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we came here all raceist
meet new facets
we play  the juke box
it cost a dime a pop
i love to dance a lot
we also do much  more
at the
CANDY STORE...

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back-alley barroom
scratchy, juke box 45's 
'so lonesome' Hank moans

("I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" by Hank Williams)
For Susan's Single Senryu contest...

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A professional wrestler of gators
Tried his luck as a restaurant waiter
   He'd feint and he'd juke
   Many patrons puked
Seafood business surprisingly cratered...

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JOHNNY RAY
I cry
girls sigh
AROUND THE CLOCK
juke box
room rocks
TAKE FIVE
still green
this theme
BLUE SUEDE
blue blue
my shoe
BLUE MOON
Dean croons
girls swoon...

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ELVIS

Elvis was King;
Rock 'n Roll made all things swing,
And Jiving was the 'thing'
dropping a shilling
        .. in  the snug juke box
    Presley,then
so unorthodox....

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Shake that thing
Let it reel
Let me know 
Just how you feel

Free the juke
Let it jive 
Let your frenzy
Come alive

Kick the can
Get the habit
Shoot for the stars
Not the rabbit...

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My Pit-Bull puppy, five months old, Sir Scoobs
looks at me crazy, arches and poops.
His tail tucks he runs,
he new what time it was,
after a juke, I could not subdue...


Jared Pickett
4/13/2011
Asavvy1...

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Langston Hughses 'JUKE BOX SONG'
        ¶
         ¶ ¶
       ¶ ¶ ¶______
            (  blue    )
            (  suede )
            (=====)
            | ° ° ° °  |
            |            |
            | °  ° ° ° |...

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Game boys
Mob the juke box
all baseball caps backwards;
singing to the loud rap music.
Lights a flashing, toes a tapping, smiling,
rosy red cheeks and fire red jerseys.
Juke box strobes, boy laughing
a trio of kids
sing too....

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On bended knee I blow my flute
  I  think I sound better than the corner Juke
                           But...
  She turns red when she hears my sound
  then heads for the door, never turning around !



               Copyright McCuen 2009...

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A swift half of cider in the Bodega bar
sadly none of us could afford a car.
Dropping a shilling in  the snug juke box
Haley and Elvis,then so unorthodox

Trad jazz with Donegan,Bilk or Collier 
no ballroom bacchanalia
Skip,hip-hop style jive 
50's music had come alive...

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AROUND THE CLOCK
juke box
room rocks

NOTE:A footle is a two line lines,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and not necessarily in rhyme).A 'hybrid' innovative sequenced varitions has
developed over the years (since 2009)alongside the original definition....

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AROUND THE CLOCK
juke box
room rocks

NOTE:A footle is a two line lines,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and not necessarily in rhyme).
Footles is a 'hybrid' innovative sequenced variations has
developed over the years (since 2009)alongside the original definition....

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AROUND THE CLOCK
juke box
room rocks

NOTE:A footle is a two line lines,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and not necessarily in rhyme).
Footles is a 'hybrid' innovative sequenced variations has
developed over the years (since 2009)alongside the original definition....

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juke baby,? ?juke?!

head thrown back
sway mama,? ?sway
eyes closed
parted lips
shuffle and slide
shake yo hips
in gyrations rhythmic
vestigial remnants
of another dance
another land
lush? ?and green
and fertile and wild
where women did
shimmy and shake
about the fire
in rhythmic gyration
to welcome 
the hunting men
home once more

Juke baby,? ?juke?!...

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That jukebox,
was in shock,
all it was playing,
was not going anywhere,
it was returning back,
people were doing all,
but hearing it,
box had it and was very angry,
it began rewinding and all,
people were still busy elsewhere,
the music played back,
people were hitting the sack,
juke box was now about to crack,
it covulsed and exploded,
now everybody heard,
got up and looked amazed....

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PROGRESS

What happened to that coffee bar
With the pinball  machine
That focused our attention and verve
On Saturdays when I was sixteen?

Where did all those girls go
That wore flared skirts and white socks
As we listened to American rock ‘n’ roll
On the juke box?

They’re still around,  but changed
With time’s passage there;
And the phenomenon called progress,
Diluting the verve, damping the flare....

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A  good rifle or shotgun,
Kittens, pups, and Panda cubs.
Harley rides,
juke boxes and pinball machines.
Cool stuff like that.

Oh yes, and ogling Cosplay girls
In their sexy costumes,
and those joyful shuffle-dancing females 
on You Tube.
Vintage p..n

It’s then that ghostly desires rise up like sump
from a rusty oil tank,
impulses that make me tremble 
as if I had 
some kind of geriatric palsy....

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 Draft beer,

chess boards,

and Kerouac cool.

Cerebral grafitti and
a Robot-in-Drag juke box
bubbling out fifty years of good jazz.

A virtuoso burger flipper
destroying the laws of physics,
making gravity play the fool.

On the restroom walls,
the surfaces held
musings of poets

and philosophers…

overwritten since, 
by lesser bards

and now
closed.

Soon to be
apartments....

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FOOTLE
AROUND THE CLOCK
Juke box

room rocks
OLD AGE
same chat

off pat
TEEENAGE
back chat
off pat
SEPTIMAL
ART TROUVE
lost and found
upon the
beach
INTERNATIONAL SET
Hollywood-
gone with the
wind
FILLING IN
did Benday
give ground to
Roy
 

PERFECT SIX
Rock
n' roll-
two-beat blues
WHISPERING CAMPAIGN
in
the wind-
rumour mill
END OF STORY
and
thereby 
hangs a tail


Hear me recite this poems at POETIC FORMS A on youtube

http://youtu.be/n2xmrDywcQ...

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Drinking, looking for a life raft.
Juke box broken,
everyone here broken.
An ocean washed us up,
turbulent sea’s snatched us away.
Captain courage has abandoned ship,
he now sails icebergs
over sloshing margarita’s.
It’s a typical tropical hour here
where the shipwrecked gather.
We are a club, each of us
an island of splendid isolation.
Empty boats we are
drifting in and out of silence.
We leave only hollow footprints
on these windblown sands....

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