All week long hear today's pop
tunes just marking time.
Seems endless, won't stop
but not quite the songs of mine.
Can't wait till Saturday
my time for songs I love.
Others get their picks each day
Saturday the music comes from above.
Rythmn and Blues time, all day long
as I clean and cook my time away.
Hour after hour words to a song
remind me of a gone by day.
Shake it to the left then to the right
feather duster swings up and down.
Pledge on the furniture to its delight
as the dust rages go round and round.
A little glass cleaner on the mirror,streaks
I could care less than a damn.
As the music play, reaching peaks
my feet stomps with the drum beat. Bam!
Pinto beans and neck bones rattling in the pot.
Oversized meat loaf sizzling in th e oven.
Macoroni with three cheeses, piping hot.
Songs in the background speaking bout lovin.
Legs get all tangle, senses start to rise.
Done cleaned the house twice before I knew it
probabbly cooked more food before I realize
but on Saturday can never say I blew it.
Sing me a love song Sam Cook
and you too smokey Robinson
while Smokey builds a castle to the sky
Ray Charles talks about her as if her looked
Sade' sings so good and pleasing to the eye.
James Brown is beggin Please, Please, Please
BB King is talking thru Lucille
rythm and Blues puts the soul at ease
lets the mind relax, peace be still.
By the coming days end
Soul is renewed, ready for the week.
Can face what ever they got to send
its Saturday's Rythm and Blues I seek.
Del Cano 2005 Sept
HI Spencer, so you like your saturday music eh? Well the power of music is very healing especially if its the pick of your ear. That sounded wrong but you know what I mean!~ya dont pick your ears but the music of your choice. lol
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This poem is like one of those songs.........I like how you wrote "James Brown is beggin Please,Please, Please
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rythm and Blues puts the soul at ease
lets the mind relax, peace be still."
This poem...........says it all.
I too am mesmerized by rhythm and blues
ReplyDeleteMy booty moves way up over my shoes
Movin' in place takin' the ques
I close my eyes to see dreams it imbues
Now rockin' is fine and Country is cool
But give me a chance and I'll chose the old school
R&B's mistress or old dancin' fool
I like the old stuff as a general rule
Uplifting gospels and razzamatazz
Sometimes I switch it out with soft jazz
But R&B music and all that it has
Can still make me dance just like a spazz.
Celeste September 2005
Terrific!!
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Love it! I saw BB King in the UK when I was at University ... never to be forgotten.
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along with down home blues comment, i saw ya dancin' in the blues, my friend ! ;) ... it's 'bout time ya took the advice to sing and dance to the rhythm of the vacuum ;) .... i'd lay a bet that it was smooooooooooth sailin' !
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sue
As long as I can have my rythm and blues I can make it thru the next week. It seems to recharge me. Thanks much to all.
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