Music Tanka Poems

The 'Sax' and 'Trumpet'
That 'Trane' ran for four big 'Miles'
Through the 'Big Fifties'
Improvisation 'So Cool'
Driving jazz to a new day...

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   Music - melody
   Universal attraction.
   Songs in symphony.
    Instrumental and vocal.
    Creation...

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Melody from flute
Unwraps my immersed feelings
Senses touched divine 
Innermost emotions surge
Cadence fills the air sublime...

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Dare to shine brightly
Among wall flowers who sigh.
Nothing brings hearts as
Close as music and laughter
Everyone should dance with joy!...

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Listen to it, man,
Take it all in, all the bass.
Take a good listen.
Take it all in, all the drums.
Take it all in as you hum....

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inside of ears pierced
song penetrates dark deeply
lighting up canal
enhancement of oars gliding
through calm waters of Venice
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sandals on my feet
the beach boys' songs are playing
a song melody
pasadena song comes on
little old lady like me...

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beautiful spring day
I need a convertible
driving the fast lane
playing seventies music
loving beach boys on fire...

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old time religion
knee slapping hand clapping songs
the old rugged cross
when the saints came marching in
the best kind of praise indeed...

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Whispers of pine, aged,
Carved by hands of bygone days.
Strings hum with life's breath,
Each note a story, tender—
Echoes of eternity....

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You played Judy Teen,
became our Top of the Pops,
strumming Spanish strings
in that epic bowler hat,
somehow breaking every code.

...

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sound of the guitar
and joy of a listener,
probe of the singer,   
the cool lovely dance of souls,
so simpatico abstract...

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                Near to a castle
     ...

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Pearl moon of music
drifting from night's dark window
the silver moon's song
Pretty notes from heart of night
and roses red in their beds

Milky moon love tune
Lilac fragrance...

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Finally music
Magically settles nerves.
Sounds all the slower.
Feelings slowly overtake
My innermost mind's own core....

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