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Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

0 posted 2004-09-01 05:57 PM

On Fremont Street

A cool spot in the warm Nevada night,
the sax man plays
on Fremont Street-
a slim man clothed in black
and Blues
and framed in neon.

When he lifts his horn to heaven,
that scream climbs up
to chip pieces off
the blank obsidian sky

and broken notes tumble down
the Plaza’s golden streams.

The Las Vegas Club: his sideman
whose orange stripes pulse to the beat,

and the old Golden Gate’s sign
rocks to his rhythm.

Chattering crowds stop a moment
to listen
as his sax struts through the heat.

An opal set in glitter,
a cool spot in the warm Nevada night,
the sax man plays
on Fremont Street.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

1 posted 2004-09-01 05:59 PM

Ah...I can hear him now

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

2 posted 2004-09-01 06:12 PM

Pilgrimage,
Thanks for this, it takes me back, been four years running, can't afford it this year. But, I hear the sax.
Doc

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2004-09-01 07:18 PM

Nevada always seemed to me, warm...I had never visited it when it was cold; but I have been in the desert when it gets cold, and unless you had said it was warm, the break of the obsidian sky could have meant a long winter's night to me.

Excellent!

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

4 posted 2004-09-02 08:43 AM

a slim man clothed in black
and Blues
and framed in neon.

With your words, I'm on another street in another city... Bourbon in New Orleans... where you know he's playing for himself despite the case for coins at his feet. *S*

Excellent work! *S*

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

5 posted 2004-09-02 10:12 AM

hoot-

I love the saxophone and he played the alto sax and the tenor sax and even the soprano sax. But it was the alto that he made scream. I can still hear it in my head.

Dr. Moose, I go nearly every year, and the music is so good, I wonder why I don't go more often. Of course, then I look at my bank balance and I know why.

Sunshine, I think the sky above the Plaza is so dark and hard because of the glare. It's right there at the end of glitter gulch, and I expect the moon could explode and you wouldn't see it.

Suthern girl, it's been so long since I walked down Bourbon Street, but I remember music. Thanks.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

6 posted 2004-09-02 07:09 PM

Nan, you took me there,  around all that
glitter,  standing as each note burned into
my soul forever.  Beautifully written,  sad
to say I have never been....but, being that
I enjoy blackjack,  perhaps that is a good
thing.

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

7 posted 2004-09-03 09:37 AM

Magnus-I'm glad you got to go with me. And it was an infinitely cheaper ride than you would have had in reality. Especially at $5 minimum blackjack bet.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

8 posted 2004-09-03 10:29 PM

Nan~
This is as fine a piece as I've read in a month of Fridays~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

Email [email protected]

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

9 posted 2004-09-04 11:19 AM

Thanks, Marge. I'm glad you're still reading and not crouching in a basement.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

10 posted 2004-09-05 01:26 AM

Pilgrimage, you took me to Los Vegas for just a moment. This was a vibrant picture and bluesy, as well! Much enjoyed.

....jo

Snow

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since 2000-10-16

Posts 1170
desert flower looking for rain

11 posted 2004-09-05 06:20 PM

wow. i'm so glad this was pointed out to me to read by a friend.

i love your style .... this will not be the last of you i read.

snow

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
--Mother Teresa

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

12 posted 2004-09-05 07:51 PM

Oh, I heard this one, and it's soulful.
I'm keeping it, to listen to that sax again.

msflame
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since 2002-05-21

Posts 188

13 posted 2004-09-06 04:43 AM

love poems like these. Just love them.

Larry C

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since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

14 posted 2004-09-23 10:43 PM

Nice picture this...

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

15 posted 2004-09-24 09:43 AM

iliana, thank you so much. I wante to share this with everyone, I'm glad it worked for you.

Snow, thank you so much. Unfortunately, if you read other things I write you'll realize I don't have a style. It comes out different every time, but I am glad you liked this one.

Midnitesun-

msflame-glad you enjoyed.

Larry, thanks guy. Good to see you around.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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