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Tupelo Oct 2014
The whole room got up to dance,
all head shakes and hip swings
this music got me all filled up
each note a cry out for someone
they done made the leaves change
autumn jazz be the most beautiful of colors
quick write
Invocation Oct 2014
I thought I knew what love looked like
now every time I log on
I get lost in your eyes

I thought that I was stronger than ever
but your smile makes me feel weak
I thought I had matured and grown
you make me feel like a schoolchild crushing

Whatever it is, it won't matter
Whatever it is, it can wait
2yrs4hrs
Whatever it is, I don't care.

Will I be enough?
Are you real?
Are you warm to the touch?
What does your hair smell like?

I thought I was crying
until you made me look
now
it's
fine

we have time
// gg
La Mer Sep 2014
.
The sight of you
brings jazz
to my ears.
Michael Hylton Sep 2014
He is the old cat

the one purring
half notes in undertones
from the shadows of the stage

he beckons with unearthly sounds

scaling in exclamation,
He casts his spell with blue notes
which conjure up his lover’s shape

she is a thin alto

he cannot help but look
as she slinks with effortless bravado
her figure the opus of lust

a binding contract with his demons

she whispers to him and
and he glows with stage light
like an ember inside the oven

dazed by fevers of unholy matrimony
for Faruk Z. Bey
Patrick H Sep 2014
Ambrose
Ah-kin-
MOO-sir-ee
Lifts a trumpet to his mouth.
Deep breaths blow notes
at right angles
into space.
The sound is worn denim.
The sound is Lauren Bacall.
The beat is urgent and syncopated
just like his last name.

Ambrose
Ah-kin-
MOO-sir-ee
Rests a trumpet by his side.
Reverb:
Ambrose interprets the persistence of sound;
reflections build up and decay
until the sound is absorbed
by the surfaces of this space.
Inhale.
Ambrose,
pulls the trumpet
To his mouth
once again.
Ambrose Akinmusire is a young jazz trumpet player.
Kenshō Aug 2014
Jazzy Universe

This dreamy sky
Holds my mind.
How many objects
Could I aspire
to or despise?

I wonder if
the wind
would mind
if I sat
here for
just a
moment
..

Graciously,
It combed
my hair.
Played
with the
trees and
flowers.

How jazzy,
How very
jazzy.

God must
be something
like a jazz
musician!
my sigh catches the windz
Petal pie Jul 2014
His jazz hymn of praise
And saxophone serenades
The bless'd trinity
Inspired by Coltrane
21 years of age, haven't rose with the sun for more than a while now, stretch those aching bones and rise with the fresh warm breath of the morning air.

Twenty-second of June  two thousand and fourteen. Cultures dead, the whole world has become an immersion of postmodern irony and sensuality evaporates like tender droplets of the heavenly sky's tears, what's new?

Tender black coffee morning, velvet aromas of something that could only feel like home.  Getting up and getting ready to tap keyboards and snap fingers, always on the periphery of that feeling of eureka moment madness, all creative and hopeful, hungry and *****.

Friends and foes accepting fates, watching the dreamy eyes glimmer and dissipate before me, killing me with sadness. It's a lonely world and the machines comforting kiss of conformity is all too tempting, to some at least.

The hours of the day, slip by. Procrastination greeting me, I don't feel like writing today. Slide into comfort and let it beat you around the back the head with its big pillow hands of complacency. You know you're not the only one and hey you're not doing as bad as that one guy you know.

evening, I have something in my pocket that has my whole life inside. I have digital extensions of my being and I check them like a notification ******, searching through the complaints and opinions of all who talk so much and say nothing at all.

twenty two minutes past 10 in England, the night puts on his cape and his heart falls out, I look at you and feel everything. how many of you lonely dreamers all around the world are looking with me, living in your beautiful minds with all your beautiful dreams, all of us are alive together and the stars wink at us and the trees breathe with us and we're all electric with life, universal current oh boy won't you flow through me tonight.
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