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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Mike Mignano reads his poem at its conclusion.
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photo by Joe via Flicker/CC BY 2.0
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Why Provincetown Gulls Sing Jazz
On the Cape in P-town
August ‘55
Billie, Eartha, Ella vocals
Filled shoreline evening skies
Entrancing soaring seagulls
With jazzy siren song
Lingering afloat sea breezes
Twilight onto dawn
Mesmerized gulls crooning calls
Ever altered avian range
Trying to reflect
Tunes affectionate remembered
Magical jive once strange
Scat mimicking to progeny
Blithe birds enlightened winging
August melodies still singing
Heard summer ‘55
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Listen to Mike Mignano read his poem
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Mike Mignano, 73, retired in Ocala, FL. Hometown Ithaca, New York. Interests include travel, history, choral singing, guitar, attending musical theatre and hymn lyric writing/poetry.
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Listen to the 1955 recording of Billie Holiday performing Allie Wrubel’s composition “Gone With the Wind,” with Jimmy Rowles (piano); John Simmons (bass); and Larry Bunker (drums). [Universal Music Group]
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