Smooth Nights

A bar, some drinks and kisses and conversation and...

The scene opens up like a door to a different world,

Glasses of wine clinking and cheers all while listening,

The bass walks the line and the guitar croons and sighs,

Just another night here at the jazz club.

The manager looks on at the musicians so high,

The music is a drug so that the crowd can get by,

After a long day's work you need to relax and kick back,

For some a romantic dinner with kisses for snacks,

For some lone wolves they just sit back and breath,

In and out goes the cigarette smoke while behind the back door some workers take a toke,

Between the table a waiter weaves.

It's full of silent conversations over whiskeys and good sensations,

All the customers know their drinks of choice and feel the lo-fi vibe while the instruments converse.

There's a couple at a table mutually teasing, 

She squeezes, hook line and sinker and now we know their night's end,

A teaser,

Another man spaces out thinking about a tearjerker, takes a drink,

Not much to do but lose yourself in the music,

The bartender looks on, loving his life for the tips and good song,

Long gone are the days he spent in a haze, 

No longer an addict to his vice he enjoys the game of prediction, you can't guess twice.

What's their choice drink? He guesses and never misses,

With precision like a missile, makes it to perfection for the mister or missus.

Always respectful, he's a man of good health,

As he watches the onlookers while they zone out and revels in his wealth.

Reviews

[FGFRANKLIN]

This was a good read. I've spent more than my fair share of time in bars and cafes making music and making time. Here's to la vida pura. The best is when you find happiness right at home and love becomes like a pair of soft old jeans or favorite slippers. El consuelo del amor. The comfort of love.

[Phillip Wolke]

I'm glad to hear that you connected with the subject matter. I'm a musician myself so this poem means a lot to me.

[FGFRANKLIN]

Oh, have you ever made a podcast of your music? You should. It's fun.

[Phillip Wolke]

Never, I just started my youtube. If you want to check it out look up "The Asian Jazz Suite" by La Cucaraña. My channel is full of everything I learned within compositions all by me.

[FGFRANKLIN]

I will definitely check it out. Thanks.

[FGFRANKLIN]

I'm sorry. I looked but YouTube is giving me La Cucaracha and lots of Jazz Suites. Could you paste me a link? I did try to find it.

[Phillip Wolke]

https://www.youtube.com/@lacucarana_official

[Phillip Wolke]

I wasn't sure it would let me post a link

[FGFRANKLIN]

I can copy and paste. Thanks!

[FGFRANKLIN]

Ah, very nice. I like your finger picking style. I use a five finger style that incorporates my entire right hand sometimes, other times two finger or three finger style. I also use a pick of course. Jerry Reed and Glen Campbell are two of my guitar heroes. I grew up watching those guys play and tried to emulate their picking styles. I'm mostly a rhythm player but I like to write my own songs and lyrics.

[Phillip Wolke]

I don't know if you noticed but I play upside down guitar. I have three albums of self-composed music with lyrics in the playlists. I studied a lot of Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton and all the oldies that I could for guitar technique and then realized that I only need four fingers.

[Phillip Wolke]

I'm also fluent in 39+ instruments more. I'm originally a pianist than I picked other instruments up. If you go to playlist there should be all my different music there, piano solos, albums everything.