http://www.ernieball.com/forums/ en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:31 GMT vBulletin 60 http://cdn.ernieball.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.ernieball.com/forums/ http://www.ernieball.com/forums/current-events/41116-louis-blues-poem-week-12-a.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:14:06 GMT Hi everyone,

Here's this weeks poem. Not in the traditional format but art has to evolve?

A great weekend and week to you!

Louis :)

Nearly Blues.

Don’t forget to take the last good one in town she said,
You could take the future now
Or see the smiles on someone else’s face instead.

At the graduation day someone I lent my program to
Went home with it,
Made my memories theirs instead.

And the paper handed to you was a plainer affair that said:
“Son, you’re a winner but here’s your third class chair”,
That’s what it said.

The song’s a griper, sour in taste, thoughts and sight.
No worse feeling than you win,
But not quite.

From: “Mr. Blues” © Louis J. Casson ,
Purple Squirrel Poems, Cryptic Furnace Press, 2009
All rights reserved.

Thank you for reading my poems, and for emailing me your comments. Please tell others, friends and family, if you think they might be interested in my poems. To be the first to read my poems, and to be added to my mailing list, please contact me on: johncasson57@hotmail.com

To see and read the rest of my poems, It's best to login to the forum (as a guest or even better register as user) then use the search facility using the words poem and louis. ]]> Current Events JohnnyBoy http://www.ernieball.com/forums/current-events/41116-louis-blues-poem-week-12-a.html http://www.ernieball.com/forums/current-events/41082-jeff-clyne-elegy-poem-louis.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:16:22 GMT In response to the sad loss of a fine man & musician on the double bass, here's my elegy.

Nick Weldon, Jazz pianist, has setup a memorial page also on Facebook.
(Jeff Clyne Remembered).

For Jeff Clyne.
(Jazz double bassist. November 16th, 2009)

I recall he said that practice was the key,
No other way to make the music fit.
And though he was the master of contrabass technicality
He’d admonish – in gentleness - that
Graceful taste in the performance was, or pretty much,
All the art of it.

Surprisingly his honesty was such; that of the electric version he confessed he’d not learnt much.
With that he taught that root and fifths and octaves were usually “right”
And to play the walking line as if trying to catch the bus,
But not to run, not plodding but
Keeping your touch light.

All from a single session, merely half a day.
This moment
From my treasures came back
To me today.

© Louis J. Casson , Purple Squirrel Poems, Cryptic Furnace Press, 2009.
All rights reserved. ]]> Current Events JohnnyBoy http://www.ernieball.com/forums/current-events/41082-jeff-clyne-elegy-poem-louis.html http://www.ernieball.com/forums/current-events/40987-louis-blues-poem-week-11-a.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:18:48 GMT Hi everyone, here's my latest blues poem for you to enjoy.

As always have a great weekend and week.

Best wishes,

Louis :)


In A Twelve Bar Tune.

When I first met you,
You were such a pretty thing.
Gave you my heart,
‘Long with a diamond ring.
Now you’re gone baby
I no longer croon,
Just blues along ‘bout life and love,
In a twelve bar tune.

Sometimes sunny weather,
Then you get a little rain.
If it keeps on staying foggy,
Maybe I’ll go to Spain.
And find another darling,
I pray it’ll be soon.
And blues along ‘bout life and love,
In a twelve bar tune.

You see the situation’s sad,
Too low for explanation.
Only Jesus and the President,
Say they can save our nation.
And whether right or wrong,
All will be revealed soon,
Meanwhile I’ll blues along,
In a twelve bar tune.

From: “Mr. Blues” © Louis J. Casson , Cryptic Furnace Press, 2009
All rights reserved.


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