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The poet reads her poem at its conclusion
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photo by Douglas Henrique Dos Santos /via Pexels.com
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Spring Is Here
& the birds outside my window
aren’t shy about asking for
what they need
a little love
a little attention
beneath a glittering
canopy of stars
they are non-jaded
in expressing their
expectations
it’s Spring
& so they sing
for hours
& hours
desire incessant! & they aren’t shy
about seeming so needful
to not ask
is to languish in silence
to not sing would be a waste
of one’s song
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Listen to Connie Johnson read her poem
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Connie Johnson has multiple Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry. A California-based writer, she has authored Everything is Distant Now (Blue Horse Press) and I Have Almost Everything (Boats Against the Current). In a Place of Dreams, her digital chapbook (containing audio readings/personal narrative), was published by Jerry Jazz Musician. Click here to view it.
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Listen to the 1977 recording of Bill Evans performing the Bergman/Bergman/Demy/Legrand composition “You Must Believe in Spring,” with Eddie Gomez (bass); and Eliot Zigmund (drums). [Universal Music Group]
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Click for:
Information about Kinds of Cool: An Interactive Collection of Jazz Poetry, Vol. II (featuring women poets)
More poetry on Jerry Jazz Musician
War. Remembrance. Walls. The High Price of Authoritarianism – by editor/publisher Joe Maita
“Where the Music Wasn’t Allowed,” Jane McCarthy’s winning story in the 71st Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest
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