POEM - Borrowed Smile

Sitting here

Feeling the years

When

We'd sit here

Side by side

And talk the twilight away

When the winter

Never chilled

And we laughed

In easy ways

When we could just be

Now I sit

Alone

As the sun washes out

Into the darkness

And the laughs echo

Almost gone

But I keep a smile

Borrowed from  you

From the times

When a smile

Was all we owned

POEM - Chops [Jazz Writing 005]

The dance floor

Crowded

In the tiny town

Local high school

Showing off their jazz band

It was crowded like no one’s business

The closing song

A final farewell

To departing members

And that band was hopping

And that country kid

Plays that sax

Like he was born

Attached to it

In NYC

Where electric air

Filled his lungs

Brought through the window

Heavy and powerful

From the clubs of Harlem

Everyone gets sucked in

Bobbing their heads

Clapping along

Awash

In the joyous noise

POEM - Sold on the Sound [Jazz Writing 004]

Bought that last line

Completely

I’m all in

For at least a few more

Cause it all just melts

In rhythms of the night

Ice and fire

Right on the beat

The licks come fast and light

Syncopated

A dance that takes

And we're gone, man!

Just gone!

POEM - Dangerous Notes [Jazz Writing 003]

Caught

Tight and close

This is what we feared

All along

The danger

Lurking in the long alley of the night

And we run

Just to stay alive

The journey catches us

A claw and a snarl

A flash of pearly whites

All within a smile and a nod

Beneath your tipping hat

A man that can't be beat

A sound that binds your soul

POEM - Attraction [Jazz Writing 002]

We passed the time

Alone and still beside you

And we left it all

Out in the night

When we kiss

The rain stops and sighs

The night fills with stars

And the atoms in our minds

Stop spinning around

As the whole wide world

Takes a moment to pause

And I am contained

In your eyes

Tell me love is fate

Or destiny or some undiscovered force

That draws us colliding

Across every distance

We can't part

We can't leave it be

And we sway and swoon

Lost in this love

POEM - A Wish for a Dance [Jazz Writing 001]

Done up

Cool down

Hot and smooth

And I wish I had the time

To swing and sway the night

All along

With you