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Melancholy Blues
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Melancholy Blues |
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wordancer Senior Member
since 2000-07-30
Posts 809VA 
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the blues echoed across my mind last night to take flight on the wings of a mourning dove's song a slow sax blows through, up/down my soul with caress of old sweet notes that ache low drift to enfold, a riff across shattered nerves how pure the melody that croons wearisome times fills the void that lingers, crying in smoky night soft wails, sob into lost memories of a past sun aching sighs are laid to melancholy's rest as future thoughts rise to shade tomorrow's dreams I push a silver dime in mindless circles across the scarred wooden table, and my unseen tonic and gin floats in a puddle of ice as gentle notes of the sax haunt the drawn-in night to sigh a plaintive lament out the door on the wings of a mourning dove's song the blues echoed across my mind last night Ink runs from the corners of my mouth There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. ~Mark Strand |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Ahh . . . There is nothing quite like a mournful saxophone cause you to reflect backward to past situations. You brought out the best of a blues moment within the structure your melancholy poem. ~*~ The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. ~*~ |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
there's nothin' quite like the blues ... fine 'write!' |
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foxeh New Member
since 2013-09-23
Posts 8NOLA |
Nothing quite like a night out in the city with some soulful music to drown a soul-less mood. Wonderful visionaries.  |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
You nailed it! The mood, the sounds, the sights, the smells...the whole ball-o-wax. excellent as appears to be per usual Lori |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
very beautiful, words and music fill us, loved it yann |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
you can almost hear this come off the page, in its entire setting, very smooth |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
very nice...James |
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