Poem of the Week

A jazz quartet (piano, double bass, saxophone, and drums) plays at a late-night club.

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Music:
Runnin Partner.
By Aaron Lieberman.
Music free to use
at YouTube. Illustration credit: AI.

Riffs are invocations,
Odes direct to soul,
Brief improvisations,
Each a perfect whole.
Rhythms subtly shift
The syncopated rhymes,
Grace the complex gift
Of this, my own sweet times.
Let me be their chronicler,
Days of seers and signs.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.

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