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Up to the Surface
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Like rivers
bubbling to the surface
he brings
the vibrations
of jazz
blending into
shadowed corners
where light pushes in
and people file in
drawn to the paintings
of his horn in the air
breaking the ceiling
of a glass place
where silver linings
spread the wings of angels
in creation
without lost days
growing in the music
as hands sway like
the seaweed of his
created currents
buried deep in
the history
of his eyes
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by Roger Singer
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Roger Singer is a prolific and accomplished contributing poet who we have proudly published for many years. Singer has had almost 800 poems published in magazines, periodicals and online journals — 400 of which are jazz poems — and has recently self-published a Kindle edition of his book of jazz poetry called Poetic Jazz.
“Jazz poetry flows out with such ease,” Singer writes on his blog. “The people and places, the alleys and sawdust jazz clubs. The stories that bring jazz alive with horns and voices, from sadness and grief to highs at midnight and love gone wrong. The jazz is within us all. Find your poem and feel the music.”
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