Give Me Some Jazz!

Give me that ~swing~...

I want to ^twist^...

No waltzes and no ballads here!

(Your melody bores me to tears)

Can't you play me some good ole Jazz?

 

Show me that beat.

The Big

               Band

                      Boom.

Forget what's written and improvise!

The world'll EXPLODE before your eyes

When you play me some "Old Time" Jazz...

 

$-(-@-T like a Pro...

Be-De-Doo-Wop and more.

Boy kick up your heels and let it out!

 

Let your pipes sing, hear your sweet horn -SHOUT-

As you play in the name of Jazz.

 

 

Remember:

Jazz is a funny thing.

It has no particular ring.

It comes from the Soul...

Flowing

Straight

To

Your

Toes

Takes control, now you're History!

 

Baby let it take control...

Be a part of History

<<...just give me some JAZZ>>

Forget all the rest!

...and keep those other noises a mystery...

Author's Note

I had a lot of fun with this but again, nothing outstanding.
Jazz is one of my most favorite genre of music so I just thought I'd experiment.

Reviews

[Stephanie]

I don't listen to Jazz very often. However, this piece really reminded me of how I feel when I do listen to it or watch shows that incorporate Jazz into their stories. I watch a lot of musicals, so that's about as much exposure as I get to this fun genre of music. You really brought it to life here, the excitement and swing of it! I love all the different formats and the way you played with the fonts, like you were dancing with them actually :) I think it takes a special person to make a poem dance, and you've done it. Amazing piece

[RainyDay]

Cool, man. I sang it to myself! I read your bio and I agree about Michael Buble, ny the way. His voice does something to my brain that ain't even funny....Great work!

[.]

This was a very fun piece. I think this poem fits popular big band swing very well. Flashy and made for dancing. A lot of your energy comes from the formatting that you use in the poem. Overall, I do like the rhyming, but there are a few places where it feels a little cliche. One of those times is the rhyme between soul and toes. It's a near rhyme, and I got that, but the whole "down to your toes" image is often used, so it doesn't have the same kind of impact that a different image would have. It might be something that you want to take a look at, just a thought. Another thin I noticed is more just me being a jazz nerd, but I'll say it anyway. At the beginning, you make a distinction between waltzes, ballads, and jazz. I understand what you're trying to get at here, but the genre of jazz encompasses both waltzes and ballads. The way you have it set up, it sounds like a waltz is not jazz or a ballad is not jazz. I know that you're trying to say that you want something more up tempo and not classical, but the way that it is phrased in the poem doesn't exactly say that. Just something to look at if you ever go over this poem again. As a jazz fan myself, your last line was very interesting, and probably my favorite aspect to the poem. Bop is more my style, but I listen to a lot of Basie, Duke, and some Kenton thrown in there. Like I said earlier, there poem has a more flashy feel to it. I think your last line hints at some of the deeper aspects of jazz that take it beyond the surface aspect that the dance bands had a lot of. What I would suggest to you is that you make another poem using the last line of this poem as the first line of the new one. There is a lot that is charged in that line, and I think you could really make something out of it. I don't really feel that this poem is the place for that kind message. That's not trying to detract from this poem in any way. I'm just thinking that you stumbled onto another poem when you ended this one. Just a thought, and something you might want to explore. It was a fun poem to read.

[Deborah Leah Krempa]

This was an awesome poem, beautifully written in a wonderful style all it's own. Thank you for sharing. Debileah

[Michelle Tarnowski]

This piece is just crazy fun!

[Lola]

Aww~ I liked this very much. I love jazz as well, and the writing style completely captures it. The words dance and sing to a tune of their own. Nice job.

[IPMONER]

its so cute. i love the dynamics and the rhyming. i love how you play those words turning them in a very pretty sequences which makes you poem very unique and very subtle.

[An owl on the moon]

Flows so beautifully, lyrically, feeling the beat in the flow of the words... Uplifting and visually wonderful!

[Thunderlyrics]

I really enjoyed this piece. To me..it has the rhythms of a jazz tune..very IN YOUR FACE writing technique. That made this piece live!!

Very Well Done!!

[breezy]

I love it! its like music but more freedom.
And in turn more feeling and depth.