There's a full moon outside, all cool and still while silver stars wink and thrill. A bari sax moon with a white gold edge, playing songs of love long gone, bittersweet, a long-time friend. It's a fat man moon, round and silver, rolling up and down the arch of heaven. Got all night to play, old moon, smoky tunes and torchy songs while the crickets sing and owls call. Smooth cool moon. High times in a velvet sky, lit with the memory of the passing sun; she's sweet in silk, long gone now but still so fine. She is oh so fine, he sighs. Smooth fine old moon, playing low on the bay and beyond the trees. Cool as love and soft as pain, the silver-gold moon will play his lonesome tune again.
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Oh, my gosh, girl ...
... you have a way with words!
That was music and art in one. Wow.
Barb
Musical
I read your post about whistling and drumming in the morning and wrote this in the evening. I think there's a connection.
The moon is really something these days.
Christine
Rhythm
Nice cadence and word patterns. I could hear it being read aloud, almost like the poetry of the Beat Movement. I liked the way you used commonly heard expressions and played around with them to create a certain mood. I also noticed the full moon while driving home in a Melbourne summer twilight at 9pm. It was suspended above two layers of colour, pink and blue. Stunning. I almost wrote about it myself. Might yet do so tomorrow night. Cindy
Got the Beat
The Beat Poets were before my time, but I understand what you're saying. I got a quick image of a big moon up just so and it seemed to be a jazz moon with mellow sultry sounds easy to imagine.
I'd love to read about your Melbourne Moon.
Christine
Pearls
Your words roll like smooth pearls from the tongue...
Music needed
Sing them!
Cheers,
Christine