When I started this blog six years ago I posted odes. You know, poems of praise and thanks. I thought that the blog would be mostly odes. I had odes to Victor Hugo, Woody Guthrie, Henry Miller, Duke Ellington, Willie Mays. A number of others. No light weights among them. I suppose I ought to put them in a category section. Anyhoo, here’s an ode … Continue reading Ode to Bill Monroe
Here’s to Orion Champion of the southern skies To Betelgeuse and Rigel To all the stars, nebulae And distant galaxies of his belt To the dog star close behind To the glory of the seasons To the movement of time We pause to think We look up at Orion. Continue reading Orion
I already sent this in to Frizz’ “M” Challenge (send in any thing that starts with the letter M). Check out Frizz and his challenge at Flickr. When I looked through my old blogs I saw this one An Ode to Willie Mays. I grew up loving Willie Mays. I would defend him fiercely if someone suggested Mickey Mantle was a better player. I would … Continue reading Ode to Willie Mays
Glory Glory/ To the Ragtime Chord Progressions/ Glory Glory/ To the music of the Seven Spheres/ Glory hallelujah to the magic of the golden mean/ Glory be the magic to our ears/ Glory to the Samba, to swing music and glory to the blues/ Glory to Rakatozafy/ Tumbling like a waterfall/ Singing of glory Continue reading Glori-oskie: The Glory Poems
To Charles Mingus To Bill Monroe To Pete Seeger To Sonny Terry And Brownie McGee To the Beatles and Chuck Berry To the Music of the Spheres To Illusion And to Truth We raise our glass. To Johnny Hodges and Duke Ellington To the movements of the constellations We watch And we sing Continue reading Another Ode
An Ode to Victor Hugo One hundred and twenty-five years Since your death (The funeral was attended by two million Frenchmen. I saw the photo) The greatest, the grandest, the most prodigious writer of ‘em all (he wrote 20 pages of prose or eight pages of verse every day) An ode to Les Miserables and the glory of Jean Valjean A star was created in … Continue reading An Ode to Victor Hugo
An ode to Willie, number 24, the Say-hey Kid. Hat falling off his head as he races Toward the center field wall. Dust flying as he slides into third base. An ode to Willie Mays Pure of spirit Fast and sure-handed A Giant power, a lovable Master of the magic game A joy to remember: Willie Mays My favorite player The best I ever saw … Continue reading An Ode to Willie Mays
A song to Henry Miller To setting out on the road To the spirit in the glass And to the hand that raises it To the future shining Like the light of the sun upon us To the days gone by To their continuation In us and all of ours And the days go on The years they pass by Revolving And the end is … Continue reading A song to Henry Miller
