Seducing The Jazz Butterfly

A poem about jazz.

 

"Seducing The

Jazz Butterfly"

Sax, how you

Float up and down

Zigzagging through

Your high squeaky notes

And sultry throaty tones,

Slyly caressing

My silky flesh

Buttons nightly.

 

Seductively

You spread

My bejeweled and

 Speckled  wings open,

Pensively peering into the hollow

Mystic caverns of my

Melancholy soul.

 

Oh, how well

You know me,

Discovering more

Each twilight melody

You magically produce.

 

With the wandering smooth palm

Of your steady hand,

You seduce me discreetly

In front of a smokey

Crowded room.

 

Your trilling rhapsody

Lifts me up with such electric elation 

To soar and peak in the

Twinkling celestial

Skies high above.

 

Yet so quickly,

Your intoxicating low

Staccato beat

Stomps me out,

Like the butt of a used

Cigarette.

 

Each jazzy encore

My zealous wings

Flutter back for more,

They're addicted to your

Smoldering night heat.

 

Author's Note

I'm addicted to live jazz. I'm not sure about the title. I'm still tweaking this one.

Reviews

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

Beautiful music takes hold of the soul, penned beautifully!

[Tasha]

I like live jazz. This was wonderful and so metaphoric. Great job.
♥ Ta'Shandra

[.]

so I am...it's exhilarating!! as is your wonderful poem

[MS. BABy]

BRAVO....I love the metaphoric style here awesome Marie

[Linear]

Leave the tweaking to a minimum, this is written so well, soft and sexy tones of a smokey blue midnight, you have excelled yourself Marie.
As each finger played over the sax, I saw that look in your eye, perspiring, smiling you move to a rhythm far beyond your control......and the lonely sax calls.:0)

[Jupiter Jazz]

You have good taste. Jazz music is awwweeesome. I easily picture a smokey bar with an old jazz man crooning and the singer just purring out on the mic



FYI: Staccato has 2 "c's" and rhapsody has a "h"

[Larry Dyson]

I love it and the title....well maybe a moth ..all fuzzy and such.... a metaphoric Minor key smokey piece.

[Becky C Strukamp]

wonderful imagery, you have tweaked it well. Loved the flow, so calm, peaceful, it actually took me a happy place in my mind, and that is great. Excellent poem,

[Richielee]

love your turn of phrase and vocabulary, you totally adore music : )

[Desert Dreamer]

I can feel your love for the music and I see the butterfly that in my imagination is created by the magic of the music.