"Thelonious Sphere"
Thelonious
Sphere
Monk
the meaning
in a name
Zephaniah
the meaning
in a name
Krishna
perhaps music
brings us closer
following the 4
dharma
the path to
renunciation
El Roi
what I listen to
at 3am, hidden
in the music
I read into
wisdom,
for those
who are usually
the last to know
looking for soul
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
"Don't look for me in human shape. I am inside your looking."
Rumi
Categories:
thelonious, muse,
Form: Narrative
Moving 'Round Midnight'
Before Miles and Miles of Trane
Thelonious Monk
Playing the white and black keys
Preparing food for the soul
Categories:
thelonious, appreciation, art, black african
Form: Tanka
Thelonious switched monasteries
~ Out of the frying pan into the friar
Categories:
thelonious, change, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Thelonious by name, jazz by fame
Monk, a unique signature, unique name
One of a kind
Fingers undefined
Travel the keyboard with ease defined
Categories:
thelonious, celebrity,
Form: Limerick
THE EURIDITE MONK
(Apropos Thelonious)
The misunderstood rhapsody
of the ebony-ivory union
reflects a oneness of time
and space fathomed
but to the freed ears
picking up the syncopation
of mind body and soul
of the sellers and the sold;
While gyrating auction block
crescendos split crazy melodies
shoveling shattered shackles sliding
sliding between the mosaic beauty
of the whining keys echoing echoes of echoes.
Let your ears blink
and it all slips sleekly by
and the uninformed cannot comprehend
the beat of rhythmic thoughts meandering
a melodious mind leaving mental footprints
tap dancing on seasoned tympanums
vibrating blue notes between bebop bars:
harmonious inertia movements
challenging a decrescendo fading
of the monk’s mosaic mastery.
Categories:
thelonious, analogy, music,
Form: Free verse
Quiet introvert
Weaving eardrum tapestries
Spaces in between
Categories:
thelonious, music,
Form: Haiku
Thelonious Monk
piano keyboard prophet
harmonizing scales
Melody from flat to sharp
rhythm soothing to the soul
Comments: Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) is recognized as one of the
most influential figures in the history of Jazz. He was one of the architects of
bebop and his impact as a composer and pianist has had a profound influence
on every genre of music. Thelonious Monk Institutes of Jazz are located at the
following locations: Washington Office: 5225 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Suite 605,
Washington, DC and Los Angeles Office: University of Southern California, 3443
Watt Way, Lower Level, Los Angeles, CA. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, a
nonprofit education organization, was founded in 1986 by the Monk family along
with the late Maria Fisher, an opera singer and lifelong devotee of music.
Categories:
thelonious, black african american, imagination,
Form: Tanka