- Non-Erotic Poetry
- spring ode
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Click hereshow your colors
plume your feathers
plant your flowers-
hands in the mud
feet in the river,
does your train of thought
deliver?
bass clarinet
cash register rings,
dark bowties cocked
sideways
as working girls
step lightly
under minor 9 chords-
its raining somewhere
always raining-
but no clouds hang
over cold mountain,
as
snowmelt
culverts barrel,
coming up for air again and again,
a certain vague
knowledge, just say when.
the water finds itself
year after year-
polishing rocks,
rusting locks,
broken glass now smooth
like gemstones unboxed.
Eric Dolphy
lays back,
and the backroom staff
pauses- dishes stacked.
history?
Mystery?
under a midnite sun-
spring fever, delirious stars,
and the delicious
one-
as the
bluebird
has fun.
- COMMENTS
jthserraabout 20 years agothat brings out the jazz? The bass clarinet immediately grabbed me. Such an unselfish instrument, so often relegated to the background as the saxes, trumpets, flutes, clarinets and oboes take center stage. My son played first chair in the high school band, his sister then took over first chair after he graduated. Alas, next year she'll change back to clarinet, but I've watched that long, tall instrument very closely for five years now. The low toe sound here resonates through your poem, wonderfully restrained jazz
"as the
bluebird
has fun."
So good...
jim : )
echoes_sabout 20 years agounder a midnite sun-
spring fever, delirious stars,
and the delicious
one-
as the
bluebird
has fun.
absolutely beautiful, you have a way with words that make their own music :rose:
Anonymousabout 20 years agoThis is one of your best! Lovely, lilting rhyme. Singing of spring with a jazzy beat.
YDDabout 20 years agoYes, it is that time of year when muse thaw out and hearts melt and become drippy.
Hey, somebody's got to do it!
Because they are spring traditional my favorite lines are:
"the water finds itself
year after year-
polishing rocks,
rusting locks,
broken glass now smooth
like gemstones unboxed."
. . . But I have to state
his music was great:
"Eric Dolphy
lays back,
and the backroom staff
pauses- dishes stacked."
Coltraine on the brain. - Thanks
