Boogie Chillen

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man? - Thoreau

as another spent night takes off its dark sunglasses

folks fill the hall like patients in a doctor's office waiting for heart bypasses

i begin a thrillin', boogie chillen, january day with a song

hoping it'll carry me all day long

light dusting of snow atop the hill, a white fedora

melody igniting my world with an electric auoroa

encircling band, sporting a red bird's feather

oblivious to cold weather

rap-tapping, bleached shoes

stirring breeze of a piano paying its dues

music for the masses

complete with free back stage passes

my swaying soul never alone

i can even play it on my cell phone

cooler than cool

mama didn't raise no fool

carried 'pon in-and-out breaths of a soothing harmonica

beautiful and fragrant like flowering veronica

thick and sweet as blue molasses

Author's Note

"Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

Music can get us through the long days of work or really any situation. It can make us dance to conjure up sad memories or make us smile at happy moments gone by.

Nicely and creatively done.

[Pete]

yes, it speaks the language of the spirit and soul.

[Poetic Beauty]

I completely agree with you. I’m a lover of music

[ETERNITY]

Sheesh! It's like you wrote this poem along with the music. Great Pete!

[Pete]

I did! had it cranked while I typed.

[Thomas W Case]

Brilliant work. You make the scene a joyful noise.

[Pete]

remember john lee hooker in the blues brothers movie doing 'boom boom''?