Some very nice Blues/Jazz and some of my poetry, too

I like this album and you can download it for free at Jamendo:

October 18, 1980

On your day off

We slunk out into the fog

To spend our money

And feel guilty.

We ate breakfast

In a clattery place

But we were alone in

   our talk.      

I sang you the blues

As we searched

For our music

Under the eye

Of the watery sun.

All the people smiled

To see us laugh

For we soared high

At the promise of the day,

For the sky became blue

On your day off.

(I'm not sure what that poem was all about, but I often commemorated a moment in life with a poem. Still do sometimes.)

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Stars in my sky

Only God can take them away

Full moon

Washes

My cold feet

In a silver bath.

I stand in my patch of yard

And watch

A giant moth

Strain

To reach

That rising globe.

Something rustles

In a tree

And I wonder

If it is a fallen star

Or my shadow

Escaping from me

In shades of dark.

The pitch black sky

Beckons me

To fall

Into its cold immensity

And I run quickly

Into the colors

Of my home.

(October 23, 1980)

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October 1980

Yesterday

I watched for you

But today

I look no more

You have traveled

Down the pathways

Outside my door.

I cannot find you anywhere

Though I may sing your name

You come to me no longer

But. . .

I miss you just the same.

Where did you wander

Where did you go?

There is a shadow

On your pathway

I can't find you

Anymore.

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1980 sometime

Together we walked

A lonely pathway

Never speaking

Never seeking

What to share

On the road of life.

We hung our heads

As we passed

Many looming

Shadowy hills.

The rain would fall

And we would

Shelter

Along

Under separate trees.

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1980

I wonder who they are

All the people going by?

I sit on my porch

And hope for them

In a prayer.

Long ago I dreamed

That they were the same as I

With their hopes, fears,

Wishes and loves.

All the people going by

Hunger just as I

Do

In the night

To be held.

So I know all those people

Going by,

Every one,

And I know what to pray

For them.

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October 19, 1980

You place multitudes

              In my head.

You smooth the mountains

                 From my bed.

You hold me up

                   To set me down 

You touch my face

                      To ease my frown.

You are my songs

You are my smiles

You are my valleys

You are my miles.

How I love you.

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1980

I walk free

In the sparkles of the wind.

Leaves brush my feet

And talk to me

Of summer gone by.

My heart cries out

To the sky

And away

I fly higher

Than the blue

To the stars that sing

Of things

I never knew

Of colors I never saw

Of love

I never felt.

and I weep.

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