Ella Fitzgerald Poems - Poems about Ella Fitzgerald

...The Kennedy Center is known to the world For honoring those in the arts – From Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Astaire, Whose talents top all of the charts. Sinatra, Gene Kelly, L. Bernstein, Ka......

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...Celestial Zodiac Jazz In the constellation of sound, Where Miles Davis breathes celestial blue/ A Gemini's whim dances through the air/His notes like shooting stars Twisting notes like a lover......

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...Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996) In the midst of stale fog – Is it day or night? The dimmed dishevelled lights don’t give a bass clef Whilst notes made syncopated love at the bar A tsunami of dis......

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...Some called the radio station demanding they throw them out of the studio. Others called to brag about their talents, their arrangements, their sass. Boswell sisters had been singing together since......

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...#A GIFT...AN UPLIFT! A GLORIOUS SHIFT OCCURS WHEN HAVING BEEN PRIVY TO AN OUTSTANDING SINGER! THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, YOUR HEART FEELS A GLOW... BECAUSE A SINGER HAS MOVED YOU SO... "A SINGER H......

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...Protective Lyricism for the Ages Part Two Martin Luther King creating a path to dessimate discrimination  An angel earning his wings from an epiphany of prophetic elation  Listening to Ella Fit......

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...Coltrane with Giant Steps coming downstairs after two-weeks King going up the mountain and dreaming as he speaks Miles said, So What... Kind of Blue Malcolm, By Any Means Necessary, seeing it thr......

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...Sang like a whippoorwill, up high on a hill Played trumpet like Satchmo, with panache and skill To watch that man tap-dance, gave even Gregory Hines a thrill As Ella Fitzgerald told us, 'Sam......

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...She turns me around Forty years ago At High School graduation And she says… Something I can’t remember It was probably something like, ‘Well, lookit that!’ or ‘Boy, Howdy!’ or Some such enc......

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...Sammy Davis and Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singers Their b'deed'lee-dip riffs on the Sullivan show didn't linger In America's consciousness, and that's really too bad They were surely the best ja......

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...My daughter, with Oppositionally Defiant Chaotic Disorder, has taught me a role-play therapy, in which we Both-And build a back-and-forth story, she plays me, more or less, and I play her Mula......

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...Thank god I finally was caught and cited for doing something that I didn't do. Just think how much worse I would feel if I actually had done it, as I have done so many stupid thoughtless things......

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...Sitting here in my room listening to Ella Fitzgerald (on what would have been her 98th birthday) Not so bad to be alone Health worries trouble me but I have a pen and paper (thank God) Con......

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...BY STREET CRIES READING BOOKS TO THE SOUNDS OF JAZZ ABSORBING TUNES TO A HYPNOTIC PAST WHERE HORNS ARE BLOWN AND KEYS PLAYED AT JUST THE RIGHT TONE ITS A SOULFULL VIBE THAT CREATS A RELAX......

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...Sitting here in my room Listening to Ella Fitzgerald (on what would have been her 90th birthday) Not so bad to be alone Health worries bother me but I have a pen and paper(thank God) Cont......

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