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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Namaya reads his poem at its conclusion.
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photo via Pixnio
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Dance Naked With Your Poems and Howl at the Lilac Moon
Shakespeare wooed the moonlight
love with his sonnets.
Emily Dickinson took refuge and
inspiration from her gardens.
Rumi communed with poets,
drunks, and street sweepers.
Walt Whitman sang naked
under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Langston Hughes drank jazz and
the blues … but, you
will you sit in the garden
and wonder,
or dance naked under the
lilac moonlight
while jazz in a violet fugue
howls in your soul?
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Listen to Namaya read his poem
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Namaya is an internationally renowned Jazz poet, storyteller, humorist and sublime improvisational artist. He has performed throughout the US and has toured in Europe, New Zealand, Japan, Asia, the Americas and Palmyra Syria. Both as a solo artist, with his band the Jazz Beat Blues Poetry Ensemble, and with jazz musicians around the world, Namaya performs an astonishing blend of jazz word, story and improvisation.
Visit his website by clicking here
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Listen to the 1950 recording of Miles Davis performing the Chummy MacGregor, Johnny Mercer composition “Moon Dreams,” from the album Birth of the Cool [Universal Music Group]
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