Monday, September 21, 2009

Call me ms blues tonight ~ Bluetry #18

Blues and jazz play a blue soul cruise inside my head 
day after day those blues play like a sensei screenplay, 
a gateway to John Coltrane 

Eyes closed I watch him riffing ~ up and down the scale he goes, the quartet flowing – 
I join making it a quintet – we’re rolling on Soultrane 
McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman – 
jazzy blues drifting into the sunset 
I wish I could relent - an ascent to another world 
my intent bent on a scent, a new advent, a dent in the rent, 
I’m totally pent up, tormented and spent, 100 percent 

I depend on an upward trend 
these blues feel my heart penned into a new poem 
send me off the deep end, all I can spend 

Amy Winehouse went back to black I stayed where I am - same jack shit 
Stack those blues up for a snack attack I’m taken aback ~ 
that wooden shack – a lilac, a payback 

Those blues blowing off into the distance - their cadence feels my sadness 
Chords extend I make amends it’s rosh hashanah 2009 … transcend the outcome, 
it’s a godsend, I dread bloodshed while I dream my life away 
I downplay doomsday building in my head 

Conceiving a notion I make a motion to idealize the commotion 
I sit and visualize the resolution hallucinate formulate and sublimate 
Words so profound they keep me spellbound 
I can’t hear where they end and I begin ~ words turn me inside out 
Burn some rocket fuel, don’t drool it’s too cruel, 
destiny is not a coincidence of scrutiny 

There’s no escaping the blue’s impending energy 
I fend them off daily only to feel them revived again and again 
They’re making new hearts these days from clay reborn I want a new one – 
I stand in sunshine yet rain falls on my head 
Everyone merry I’ll take the next ferry try to catch up to you 
got to get out of the cold my life’s not on hold 
I’m singing the blues until I fold 
old time jazz, that razz tazz blues 

I’m gonna get bankrolled lo and behold 
coast a while to labile– send me another mango, 
it’s a new lifestyle Introduce me to myself 
I’ll have my way with fate 
I’m ms blues to you from now until I say I do 
Rock them blues back, 
like a kudzu they infuse me and abuse me, 
reduce me and seduce me I ain’t looking for an excuse, 
don’t confuse me like a weeping spruce 
I can’t give up the fight love’s light in sight this night, 
I recite in stage fright another back bite 
Luddite go fly a kite 
Put my soul on a hook and draw a needle through it 

My blues rip through me 
Singing the blues under a translucent snow-white moonlight
 I ignore my plight in musical delight 
Blues on steadfast order of rewrites - 
My trays too full of holiday blues 
A pure Semite emerging like a sprite from a cu⋅mu⋅lo⋅ nim⋅bus 
nonplussed by genius at twilight igniting like phosphorescent pyrite 
I’m torn in two call me ms blues tonight