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Clarity in the Horn

by Suzanne Dennison
May 7, 2006

Clarity in the Horn Hanging on for dear life This body in constant change Has the beauty of the moment Stronger than the waves of pain. Like an island in the ocean Our love in notes remains Sparkling in the music Tenderness' ...

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Frida

by Wayne Wolfson
April 2, 2006

The streets tilt and whirl, the entire city gone dancing. Dirty flower petals litter the street, flags of a departed army. All desire is encoded in the blinking lights of the boulevard, it is now only a matter of knowing where to look. Half a bottle gone and she disappears. I think of following. Pursue. I ...

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Haiku Octet for Jazz Day in a Garden Concert

by Ross J. Peterson
January 1, 2006

Haiku Octet--All-Day “Jazz in a Garden Gets Rained Out Garden Jazz 1 The reeds held to lips warm-up to an overture a bird quickens its paces Garden Jazz 2 English daisies play brass sax to funky strings trumpets glare at the sun ...

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Flowing Energy

by Suzanne Dennison
October 30, 2005

Flowing Energy Messages thru the wires Our love conspires To melt in the fires: All time spent apart Dissolving in the art, Expression from the heart Celebrating union After decades apart. A dream woven in the music Illustrates the beauty ...

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Independently Blue

by Wayne Wolfson
September 17, 2005

"Time to get up. “Give me one minute. No, make it two so that they won't be lonely . Again, I had been working in my own way. In my fever I called for her lips. Her lips, her flesh cool like stone. Sorrow. Why did the ghost of the other hurt her so? She wanted ...

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Weave Passion Thru Instruments

by Suzanne Dennison
September 17, 2005

Why is it that love lingers When the actual disintegrated So long ago? Each evening Agonizing beauty flows thru tunes Reminding me of your fingers Weaving thru the instruments The passions of the mind In an alien language astounding In ...

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Kaleidoscope of Sounds

by Suzanne Dennison
June 2, 2005

The first haze of fall Creeps thru night's shadows: In music the essence of Time conquers all Made lyrical, harmonious Bringing all into Now. A flowing kaleidoscope Enriches the soul Remembering our passions Thru thousands of ...

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Mento Mori

by Wayne Wolfson
May 23, 2005

For Maria MarquezYesterday, we drank wine, we danced. Now, the bottle is empty, the band has gone home. Even the sad eyed girl has gotten married. To lose your surroundings to familiarity is to live among ghosts. The emptied pool, full of dead leaves where I practiced my ...

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A Study in Blue

by Darrell A. Harris
May 14, 2005

For the Celebration of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Duke Ellington's “Mood Indigo" After hours Alone with yourself That's when it happens That feelin' that comes stealin' and goes right on down to your shoes The soundtrack? One of those Harlem ...

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Providence

by Eric Vance Walton
May 7, 2005

Your presence brings such joy to my life, one beautiful mystery I don't care to explain away but rather bask in each moment that warms like the sun and cleanses like rain we must've known one ...