- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Jazzstory
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Click hereA stomp in Congo Square
a rag a cornet that's his
trumpet buddy
bold and passing mad
to blare the second line
then Europe marches
piano rolls the melody
right the left hand strides
to boogie the Savoy
glides to swing to be
or not to bop dissolves
in dissonance
for flatted fifths
a tearing down
a discombobulation
for the Resurrection
of a century gone Jazz.
At the Philharmonic it's black
and white in rhythm
it's Bean and Mulligan stew
for flathat cats for hi hats
brush four four the minor
tenor moans gutbucket stops
to vamp and damn
the future call
respond and always
sing the blues.
- COMMENTS
twelveooneover 13 years agoCongo is an unfortunate connotation, well of the Congo, also Vachel Lindsay. Here (in one of the few times I would do this) I would recommend the ol ghost of pentameter, counter pointed heavily to four beats. Syncopation and all that jazz.
* not that there is anything wrong with Vachel, but the focus is jazz here. As far as the Congo, you don't want to go there.
Easy 100
ishtatover 13 years agoThe only time someone has used the word dissonance without making me 'eek'. Lovely writing Angeline and it sounds brilliant a picturebook read out by an old friend with a strong Welsh accent.
