Little Poems
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Comment from Joan E.
I enjoyed the creativeness of this form and your interpretation. You captured the essence of the music and I felt like tapping my feet to your shifting rhyme schemes. Your presentation was striking as well. Feelin' the beat! -Joan
reply by the author on 21-Jul-2015
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I enjoyed the creativeness of this form and your interpretation. You captured the essence of the music and I felt like tapping my feet to your shifting rhyme schemes. Your presentation was striking as well. Feelin' the beat! -Joan
Comment Written 21-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 21-Jul-2015
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Thank you Joan. Glad you got those toes tapping.
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Me too! Sweet, jazzy dreams-
Comment from rod007
An awesome that creates music with upbeat rhymes and words. Certainly a poem that celebrates jazz. I love the last couplet:
"So much pizzazz
Because it's jazz"
Well done, Tom.
reply by the author on 21-Jul-2015
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An awesome that creates music with upbeat rhymes and words. Certainly a poem that celebrates jazz. I love the last couplet:
"So much pizzazz
Because it's jazz"
Well done, Tom.
Comment Written 21-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 21-Jul-2015
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Thank you so much, rod.
Comment from robina1978
Excellent picture that complements your poem perfectly. I never heard of a jazz Sonnet, or did you just invent this? You mentioned some instruments and the complexity of this genre music. Robert taught me to like it.
reply by the author on 21-Jul-2015
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Excellent picture that complements your poem perfectly. I never heard of a jazz Sonnet, or did you just invent this? You mentioned some instruments and the complexity of this genre music. Robert taught me to like it.
Comment Written 21-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 21-Jul-2015
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Thank you Ine. No i didn't invent it. I'm glad you liked it.
Comment from Pantygynt
This is incredible. Did you invent this style of sonnet? If so you have my congratulations. Perhaps an exponent of modern jazz might get even more out of it than I, who prefers the New Orleans trad jazz style. But I can "hear" those instruments as I reead my way througgh this sonnet and id not feel either rytrhms or rhymes out of place.
I would say that you have even managed a volta in the third stanza with its fascinating internal rhymes that link into the end rhyme schem. Call it what you will I think it looks at things in a different way through its form as well as its content that looks at the music from the listeners point of view, that takes in the whole piece rather than the individual virtuosity on the separate instruments that characterized the first two stanzas.
The whole performance is summed up brilliantly in the two short lines of the final couplet.
Earlier I posted a poem relating to a piece of music written principally for our poems and pints group that meets tonight. The theme is poetry inspired by music and, as well as our own work we read the work of at least one other poet. I hope you will permit me to read this poem to them along with your notes. It is so apt.
reply by the author on 21-Jul-2015
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This is incredible. Did you invent this style of sonnet? If so you have my congratulations. Perhaps an exponent of modern jazz might get even more out of it than I, who prefers the New Orleans trad jazz style. But I can "hear" those instruments as I reead my way througgh this sonnet and id not feel either rytrhms or rhymes out of place.
I would say that you have even managed a volta in the third stanza with its fascinating internal rhymes that link into the end rhyme schem. Call it what you will I think it looks at things in a different way through its form as well as its content that looks at the music from the listeners point of view, that takes in the whole piece rather than the individual virtuosity on the separate instruments that characterized the first two stanzas.
The whole performance is summed up brilliantly in the two short lines of the final couplet.
Earlier I posted a poem relating to a piece of music written principally for our poems and pints group that meets tonight. The theme is poetry inspired by music and, as well as our own work we read the work of at least one other poet. I hope you will permit me to read this poem to them along with your notes. It is so apt.
Comment Written 21-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 21-Jul-2015
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Thank you Pantygynt. Of course you have my permission. No I did not invent this style. I researched it. If you Google Jazz Poetry, you'll find quite a bit. So glad you liked it. This notation in Wikipedia caught my eye and set to doing just such a search.
"Also, the contemporary Greek poet Yannis Livadas invented the "fusion sonnet", consisting of 21 lines, essentially a variable half of a "jazz" sonnet, accompanied by a half sonnet as a coda. Both parts of the poem appear as a whole in a dismantled form of a series of 3, 2, 4, 3, 4, and 5-lined stanzas."
I haven't followed up yet on the fusion sonnet.
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Thanks for the permission I will let you know how it is received.
Comment from barkingdog
This is really interesting. I didn't understand it at first. Then I read the following notes and the sonnet read much better the second time I read it.
You have nice internal rhyme in these line as you show us a jazz beat:
Got its beat, got its heat, its got soul.
Tap your feet, feeling sweet, lose control
reply by the author on 21-Jul-2015
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This is really interesting. I didn't understand it at first. Then I read the following notes and the sonnet read much better the second time I read it.
You have nice internal rhyme in these line as you show us a jazz beat:
Got its beat, got its heat, its got soul.
Tap your feet, feeling sweet, lose control
Comment Written 21-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 21-Jul-2015
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Thank you barkingdog.
Comment from Sandra du Plessis
Very well written poem, I could nearly hear the music, definitely feel the rhythm. It is a unique way to describe jazz. I am really surprised that you choose this poem because of all the rules that is broken, but I liked how you played it.
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2015
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Very well written poem, I could nearly hear the music, definitely feel the rhythm. It is a unique way to describe jazz. I am really surprised that you choose this poem because of all the rules that is broken, but I liked how you played it.
Comment Written 20-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2015
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Thank you Sandra. Glad you liked it.
Comment from GregoryCody
AGAIN, I don't know how you do these lol. And masterfully I might add.
The saxophone is wailing melancholy rhythmic sounds,
Perfect line.
Your meter is perfect from what I see, although I'm no master. But I Know your flow is perfect.
Really nice piece. Second one I've read twice! Great.
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2015
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AGAIN, I don't know how you do these lol. And masterfully I might add.
The saxophone is wailing melancholy rhythmic sounds,
Perfect line.
Your meter is perfect from what I see, although I'm no master. But I Know your flow is perfect.
Really nice piece. Second one I've read twice! Great.
Comment Written 20-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2015
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Thank you very much Gregory. Very different type. But it has its place.
Comment from TAB_that's me
Though I don't listen to it often, I do like jazz - there is nothing quite like it. You describe the power of it and the sound well in your poem.
Teresa
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2015
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Though I don't listen to it often, I do like jazz - there is nothing quite like it. You describe the power of it and the sound well in your poem.
Teresa
Comment Written 20-Jul-2015
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2015
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Thank you so much Teresa.
