"trinkle" poems
Monk tinks tonight
fine glasses clink
convivial banter
bubble pop blink
in breathing rooms
bit woofed and stirred
the smoke mint sound
we dare exhale
Monk swings about
a bell do ding
the huey blues
bird bops on wings
hips juicy moves
rubby mounds wet ****
slow drum rolls blow
dance steady bump
Monk rocks the house
the clock do tick
me feets be tappin
gonna busta trick
key ******* bounce
mouths all agape
we gettin down
like crazy apes
Monk’s muzik rides
a sonorous beam
levitatin hipsters
to places unseen
gosh groovy tunes
a **** good gig
we all stoked up
Monk we do dig
Monk played alright
some swingin tunes
Happy B Day Monk
you over the moon
Thelonious Monk
(October 10, 1917 - February 17, 1982)
Thelonious Monk
with John Coltrane
Trinkle ******
10/9/13
Suffern
jbm
Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 3:25 PM UTC
monk jumps
trinkle ****** trane
criss crossin time
aboard idiocentric planes
whacky Hackensack moods
near my mysterioso home
round bout midnight gleaning
brilliant corner poems
hummin blue monk blues
i surrender dear
Bemsha swing cast away
Friday the 13th fears
melancholy ruby swigs
straight no chaser shots
just let's cool one
at the red hot 5 Spot
rollins and griffin jammin
hudson riverside house
Weehawken royalty bows
to a spiffy charlie rouse
we remember mintons
a vast creative flood
monk be boppin on stage
when in walked bud
red rooster clucksters
raising town hall roofs
consecrating spaces playing
Monk's hallowed tunes
"pianos don't play no wrong notes"
we heard Thelonious once say
his utterances on the upright keys
ingenious music maestro on display
Music Selection:
Thelonious Monk:
In Walked Bud
Marking Thelonious Sphere Monks Centennial
10/10/17 - 10/10/17
Orlando
9/28/17
jbm
Sep 28, 2017
Sep 28, 2017 at 6:36 PM UTC
An unusual crowd gathers
I can make out faces through every window
Blank, staring, sea of faces
Eyes fixed on the hillside across the way
My house seems only an obstruction
An optical obstacle obscuring an oncoming out pour
Unblinking they look at that overgrown hill
Where the wild brush spreads and those old rails stay planted
Stretching east to west
Those ******* rails that those ******* trains
would rumble down at four in the morning
Blaring their horns and shaking my bed
Until the sun woke up on schedule, like clockwork
Over and down the hillside, water starts to trinkle
Slipping and sliding
How ghastly it grows
From stream to spout
to rivers with rapids
Until the tidal wave shows its face - blank, staring
Eyes fixed on me
In the face of the end, I turn and flee
So many loved ones and trinkets to save
But the water is up to my knees
And the crowd - unmoving, unthinking
Without a gasp or a word of dismay
They open their mouths to drink in the doom
Parched since the prelude for the secession of air
Too late for nostalgia
Impact.
Empty handed the crow and dove shall return
Aug 20, 2013
Aug 20, 2013 at 2:44 PM UTC
Feel the smoke enchant your lungs
trinkle up and bite your tongue
Fall into the mystic haze,
go on now, float away
Ponder up to worlds so sweet
where troubles are lost
and the thinker will sleep
The lost lovers can meet once again-
say hello to a long lost friend
You can dance with sunshine
and sing to the birds
Breathe in the sublime
with vision so blurred
Cause when reality gets rough
and you've just had enough
There's always an escape
in the land you can shape-
Dec 15, 2013
Dec 15, 2013 at 12:34 AM UTC
Wail 'n' whine of the saxman's blues
The syncopated sizzle of the drum kit
Trinkle, ****** of fingers fervent
The jigsaw jazz of a cubist portrait
Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 12:51 PM UTC
Fast, windy, noisy,
such as the wind at sea.
light, wispy, fluttering,
as a bird to be.
frantically, busily, swaying
are the leaves blowing in the air
as the storm briskly rolls through
just like a running stallion or mare
last raindrops drip and
trinkle down,
like little trinkets to the ground.
As darkness leaves and
now is bright
from dark to grey and now clouds white.
From thunderous claps and echo's gone.
A rainbow prevails as this painting's dawn.
A new day gone and another sigh'
with a poetic painting 'the storm gone by'
Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 4:26 AM UTC