He's

Cherry

By mark p

Mon, 25 Nov 2024
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He's a jazz poet and a blues poet

He's a nothing to lose poet

 

He sits there smoking, sometimes drunk

Listening to Miles, Mingus and Monk

 

Scrawling his poems on crinkled pages

He's been a poet for ages and ages

 

He hasn't a laptop, phone or typewriter, 

so scrawls his verse with a yellow highlighter

 

He's in publications that are so hard to find

Seek them out, they might blow your mind!

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Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

This is such a cool poem that blew my mind in that 1950s American Jazzy kind of way.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by mark p on

Thanks a lot for that! :)

 

 

Submitted by Mark Say on

Reads as if it was written by a guy in a black beret with a goatee beard.

 

Submitted by Frances Macaula... on

Between 2005 and 2008, I used to host monthly events, 'Poets Corner @ Pages Cafe' in the Perth State Library (Western Australia).  More than 80 poets presented or sometimes hosted my gatherings over those years so many poets brought to mind with your light touch.

Congratulations on the Cherries too!

Soundcloud:  https://soundcloud.com/search?q=FrancesMF