FRANK WESTCOTT
FRANK WESTCOTT
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“4 JAZZ BARS” IN “4/4” TIME
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“4 JAZZ BARS” IN “4/4” TIME
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*This poem was published in the May, 2021 issue of Write Away Magazine in the UK.
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“4 JAZZ BARS” IN “4/4” TIME
by
Frank Westcott
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“1/4” JAZZ BURNS
Jazz burns into consciousness in the ear of hear
casting fire into words out of fingers firing
knowing nothing. Jazz plays on, I think,
in glorious syncopation .
“2/4” JAZZ LIGHTS ITSELF
The music stops and jazz lights itself on fire
in air where music flies to my ears where there
are no ears needed, because I am seeing the music.
I tap my fingers, music asking listening too,
in its speaking tapping answers between notes.
“3/4” JAZZ BURNS ITS FLAME
Jazz burns flames across airwaves,
poems transcending skies dancing
word tip to word tip.
Poems ride jazz and float under songs’
cadence-fires’ soul quenching moments
tracking back beckoning, placing bets smiling,
speaking in robust flames, laughing knowings,
winning the bets’ placing, not the races.
Jazz lights sax’s wail-song burning off edges
like words gone too far. Actions in shydom,
worshipping candles flaming wanting to hear
5/4 time criss-crossing deserts.
Jazz flames burn. The sax listens to the crackling.
“4/4” JAZZ JUMPS IN AIR
Jazz jumps in air, over under, air cascading circling
never pushing notes beyond melody roots flaming
their own routes dancing notes, over under, air
never telling the whole song~story subtle imaginings
left to listeners over under the melody
around the unsaid, the unsung, where stories exist.
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And here’s a Jazz-Tune me did… made… wandrin’ a thought… or two… & more… I call it “Goin’ on a Stroll”. Enjoy! I hope you like it: https://youtu.be/7Li9e7bTnsg
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The poem “4 JAZZ BARS” IN “4/4” TIME was published in the May, 2021 issue of the Write Away Magazine.