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As mentioned in my diary, I'm adding a couple of pages. This will be the first and I'd love your feedback. When I find things I find interesting or thought-provoking, I like to share them with others. Let me preface this by saying I know very little about poetry, but I do know what moves me. Some things move me in good ways, some things anger me, and some things just make me sad. But that's what makes the world go round and keeps life interesting. So this month I'll lay a couple of poems on you that touched me in different ways. I hope they do the same for you.
When a poet recites his own words, it is his form of expression. Just as any musician expresses themselves through their instrument. The only difference is musicians play notes and writers play words, hence the title. Enjoy!
 
play'n theword - poems
I Chop Some Parsley While Listen
by John Collins
It Sure Is Risky
by Dan Jaffe
The Pool Players. Seven at the
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
by Michael S. Harper
I, Too
by Langston Hughes
Sometimes with One I Love
by Walt Whitman
For Bud
by Michael S. Harper
Peace on Earth
by Michael S. Harper
Play On
by Dan Jaffe
Man Listening to Disc
by Billy Collins
Little Lyric (Of Great Importanc
by Langston Hughes
Trumpet Player
by Langston Hughes
Release: Kind of Blue
by Michael S. Harper
SOLEDAD
by Robert Hayden
Jazz Joint, NYC
by Dan Jaffe
A Swingin' Affair
by Eric L. Wattree
Crepuscule with Nellie
by Charles Simic
Buying Wine
by Sascha Feinstein
Elegy for Thelonious
by Yusef Komunyakaa
Dizzy Gillespie
by Peter La Barbera
Chet Baker's Face
by Fred Moramarco
humph
by John Sinclair
Bill Evans
by Peter La Barbera
Oneness..Space Funk Do It To The
by Trudi (Blue T)
Live Jazz
by Johnny Frigo
We Speak Duke
by Linda Tate
Projection
by
Misery
by Langston Hughes
I, Too
by Langston Hughes
To Be Somebody
by Langston Hughes
Owl Rimes
by Dan Jaffe
Joe Williams at the Blue Note/Chicago, 1955
by Sam Hamod --
Music Lulls world-wearied hearts
by Charles K. Moss
On this path that I've taken
by Winston Constantine Ellis
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Your Sleepin Prescence
by Dan Serro
Changes
by Dan Serro
Music of the Heart
by Bishop
Memory's Trail
by Sarah Hastings
From 'A Song for Occupations'
by Walt Whitman
The Crazy Woman
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Changing Course: From Eisenstein to Shostakovitch to Herman
by Dan Jaffe
Duke's Piano
by Joi Wheatley, grade 12 Duke Elli
Ricco Robinson, grade 9
by Untitled
Written for a Musician
by Vachel Lindsay
Listening
by Amy Lowell
Music I heard
by Conrad Aiken
The Banjo Player
by Fenton Johnson
The Drummers
by Peter La Barbera
Well You Needn't
by Peter La Barbera
Ted Joans
by Jazz Must Be a Woman
Bluenote Time
by Adrian Green
Sonny Rollins
by David Henderson
Jazz Fantasia
by Carl Sandburg
The Tenor Man
by Adrian Green
Dave Hilton
by Finding a Chet Baker album in th
Song
by Gwendolyn Bennett
Jazzonia
by Langston Hughes
Testimonial
by Langston Hughes
Be-Bop Boys
by Langston Hughes
Miles On StagePete
by LaBarbera
Pete LaBarbera
by Well You Needn't
Playing the Armchair Blues
by Adrian Green
String Bass
by Adrian Green
Gravedigger Blues
by Dan Jaffe
Look Up Now
by Dan Jaffe
Always Plus More
by Jaita Williams~KyrieJah
I Never Knew
by Jaita Williams~KyrieJah
In the Ghetto
by Adrian Jefferson
Free Music - Solo (for Lol Coxhill))
by Adrian Green
Memory's Trail
by Sarah Hastings
Listen to the Song in You
by Nancye Sims
Addie Parker's Blues
by Dan Jaffe
After Midnight
by Dan Jaffe
Music Is
by William Parker
Unknown
by Unknown
The Last Party on Bourbon Street
by Arthur Mortensen
Musings on Music
by Ann Cragg
Jazz Fan Looks Back
by Jayne Cortez
Listening to Jazz Now
by Jimmy Santiago Baca
New Years Toast
by
New Years Toast
by
Well You Needn't
by Peter LaBarbera
Ornette
by Peter LaBarbera
When Malindy sings
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar
by Song
The Beat
by Chip White
Jazz 1
by Chip White
Jazz Chick
by Bob Kaufman
Round About Midnight
by Bob Kaufman
Juke Box Love Song
by Langston Hughes
Song
by Gwendolyn Bennett
Pink Champagne
by Adrian Green (for Digby Fairweat
Jungle music
by Paul Taylor
Dream Boogie - 1951
by Langston Hughes
Poem
by Helene Johnson
Luna Voluntas
by Kiva Ebert
This
by Kiva Ebert
"O Jazz O"
by Bob Kaufman
Bird
by Wayne Wolfson
Haiku Octet—All-Day “Jazz in a Garden” Gets Rained Out
by Ross J. Peterson
Miles Showed me his Trumpet
by Larry Jaffe
DREAM BOOGIE
by Langston Hughes
If the Drum is a Woman
by Jayne Cortez
Jazz Band
by Marshall Davis
New Year
by Jean Kenward
Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio
by Carl Sandburg
The Weary Blues
by Langston Hughes
Silent Encores
by Wayne Wolfson
Raw Jazz Man
by Joyce Renee Lewis
The Journey
by Lawson Fusao Inada
State and 32nd
by Rexroth
Langston Hughes
by MY PEOPLE (Excerpt)
Kathryn Thompson
by The Music
Two Heart Music
by Otteri Selvakumar
Music
by Richard Stilwell
Musician
by Malini Kadir
Music 2
by Bernard Shaw
Juke Box Love Song
by Langston Hughes
Negro Dancers
by Langston Hughes
"Lenox Avenue: Midnight"
by Langston Hughes
Moanin’
by Charles Mingus
Crusin' with the Count
by Ben Slackenov
Ben Slackenov
by Sittin' with Charlie
Happy New Year's to You
by Unknown
Song for Billie Holiday
by Langston Hughes
Afraid of the Silence
by Adrian Green
What is Music to You?
by Sylvia Chidi
A Crazed Girl
by William Butler Yeats
Music
by Miles John
Music Is
by Lesley Bass
It's Just Music, Music, Music
by Frank James Ryan, Jr.
Dark Lady of the Sonnets
by Amiri Baraka
Billie Holiday
by W A N D E R E R 'S N O O K
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