"Heaven"

A Poem by redzone

...what happens when listening to some music..

“Heaven”

cool jazz smooths out the day

as a blue haze swirls

around the tables;

the sax played around

with your long legg’d sway

as you near’d the table

and handed me a very dirty

vodka martini

with a wildly wonderful

red lip’d smile.

how could I resist;

it was like the fusion

of cool, smooth melody

of Boney James’ soprano

with the hard edged notes of

Coltrane’s alto

and I was entangled

within your sensual flair.

as I pulled you closer,

my fingers playing in your hair,

I saw the universal twinkle

of shooting stars

in your eyes

and my heart beat

beat

in tune with

“In A Sentimental Mood”.

the smooth jazz mellow’d

out in a gin joint haze

and we sway’d

in and out of a shifting phase

of warm lips

and a raspberry scented daze

as we moved closer

into this sexual craze

of my syncopated fingers caressing

your lemon-vanilla scented

piano flavor’d skin.

key strokes gently

ease into me

and the music of “Fallin”

eats me like air.

not in piece by piece delights,

but as a ravishingly

lustful whole.

and I find

“I’m falling in and out

of love with you”.

but helplessly, I find

I’m still in a sentimental mood

as my dream catcher

knows I love the silky,

cool jazzy feel of you.

Aztec Warrior/redzone 8.27.16

Note: there are references to several songs

and musicians in the poem. The title is a song by Boney James

found in his album “Ride”. The musicians are Boney Lames,

John Coltrane, Alicia Keys, and Dr. John.

Any of their songs would go nicely with this poem,

but I chose Dr. John’s “Tn A Sentimental Mood”

because the poem is after all, “sentimental”.

So it is embedded below and here are the links to

the two other songs mentioned.

Alicia Keys, “Fallin”

https://youtu.be/Urdlvw0SSEc

and Boney James’, “Heaven”

https://youtu.be/2Y3poFrr16k

© 2016 redzone

Author's Note

...thanks for reading...

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Lydia Shutter

Red lips, a dirty martini and cool jazz.....how can a man resist? Hell, how can a woman resist? Getting all tangled up in a sensual flair with strains of John Coltrane.....ahhhhh a heady scene indeed. Sentimental mood be damned....this is a downright sexual mood....and it is written to perfection, by Mr. Cool Jazz himself! So very "nice" ! Lydi**

Posted 8 Years Ago

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8 Years Ago

lol.. thanks Lydi... nope who would want to resist such temptation... the music, the woman, those re.. read more

8 Years Ago

Our poetry is never about just one person....it is about all people who have wandered through our li.. read more

8 Years Ago

very true and also very exciting too

aLittlePain

This is the business, I absolutely dig it! Or maybe the minute referencing Coltrane, Dr John... I was hooked. Beautifully poetic with a ton of jazz swag! Rach