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Trane Poems - Poems about Trane

Premium Member DJ PunTable
...The bridge/ Hear that?/ Snap it pop it / Not the one of stone and steel, holding cars and trains aloft/ This bridge hums/ It vibrates/ yellin’, mo’ funk and groove please woven into the boss horns s......

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Categories: trane, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member Jazz Out
...(Sam Trio stands at the mic, snaps fingers lightly, takes a drag on a Marlboro, and smiles to the crowd) Dig this, we’re going back in time, way back to the smokey jazz clubs and cool sounds and jazz......

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Categories: trane, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium Member POETIC GIGGING: Apropos Of My Hot Toddy
...After a tired labor of love day got on the Trane and after a few Miles I reached Monk later laying back travelling towards Sarah and Nina and after getting Dizzy headed West boarded Bi......

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Categories: trane, allegory, deep, emotions, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member EAST COAST JAZZ
...Yo. From a whisper, barely a breath, to a front-page roar/ EAST COAST JAZZ in the fifties, sixties/ Not just blowing trumpets, but blowing up the jazz scene jazz/ LPs stacked high vinyl spinnin......

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Categories: trane, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member IN MELODIC RHYTHMIC MIND
...Melodic music depths me in deep thought… and as it is with such thoughts about our creator what we think and hope for can’t be divorced from place and time in history culture and ourstor......

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Categories: trane, allegory, deep, encouraging, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In Hip City
...In Hip City/Tony Adamo where rhythms collide, and no jive is spoken/ Guru laid down the truth, a fusion of jazz and rap/ no holds barred streetwise rap talk/ Just as Herbie’s touch on keys/ his Hea......

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Categories: trane, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Two Too Cool
...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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Categories: trane, america, appreciation, creation, history,
Form: Tanka
Trane Bird Hawk
...I'm riding and flying into dimensions beyond the 3rd, Sweet melodies and harmonies of rhythmic words. They speak melodiously and deeply to my soul. I'm riding and flying; I'm losing control. ......

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Categories: trane, art, beautiful, feelings, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Saint John
...From High Point, he hailed With his instrument, he had a story to tell Many pundits call him insane But for those who know simply call him Trane His claim to fame was riding the galactic s......

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Categories: trane, appreciation, art, celebration, music,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmic Trane
...Hurry! Hurry! All aboard the Cosmic Trane Where the mind runs free and the soul feels no pain A location for the elevation of humanness to the existential realm of salvation Galactic spiritual......

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Categories: trane, adventure, beautiful, feelings, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Monk - Tanka 78
... Moving 'Round Midnight' Before Miles and Miles of Trane Thelonious Monk ......

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Categories: trane, appreciation, art, black african
Form: Tanka
Melophile
...I've always been a mellow type of fellow Laidback like dem seats in that Cadillac Yeah! Real chill like that sleek '73 Deville Even as a little boy the jukebox was my toy Sweet rhythms of lif......

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Categories: trane, appreciation, art, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Sabotage
...Comrade Tie rollerskates to pólice Horses hoofs Piss on the grim parade From the roof Of the dept store Slip a fortune cookie note That reads ´give me liberty or death Or chicken chow mein ´......

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Categories: trane, political,
Form: Political Verse
Sum Thang
..."IT N' EST PAS SAGE DE BOO LE FAUORIL ! LE QUAH, LE QUAH LE QUAH ! HI BOU, HI BOU, IGNORE-LE ! LE MOO ! LE MOO ! IGNORE , LA TRANE !" SUM THANG BIN EATIN OUR COWS AGAIN! VAISSEAU SPATIA......

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Categories: trane, animal, autumn, character, encouraging,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Refleksie
...'k kyk neer rivier wat kronk'lend paaie baan in dalle vloer afgemat en steeds geboè poele plas en blitsend 'kaats drenkend dans palmiete gras soos manne kras in kroee dalk net dromend was my ......

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Categories: trane, passion,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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