Your smile

Your smile

I don't know what it
is, but your smile makes me
feel not so lonely.

Inspired by Sarah Vaughan singing, "The Shadow of Your Smile":

Quiet

Quiet

I just want quiet
I just want solitude I
just want peacefulness.

Listen to "Solitude" with Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong:

We get caught up

We get caught up

We get caught up in
all there is and all there
ever was

foggy eyed starry eyed
blank eyed dead eyed

I can't even look into
your eyes.

Wondering

Wondering

Sometimes I spend my
lonely nights wondering why
things broke easily.

Inspired by Louis Armstrong playing, "Stardust":

Out with the old

Out with the old

Out with the old
in with the new
people, places,
memories, shoes!

Listen to Frank Sinatra sing, "What are you doing the rest of your life?":

Yesterdays

Yesterdays

If I knew my dreams
predicted the future I
would trust yesterdays.

Inspired by Carmen McRae singing, "Yesterdays":

Bye

Bye

I'm tired of being
surrounded
by mediocracy and boredom
bye to the old days
of caring too much
hyper-sensitivity and
crying over spilled milk
hello to the new days
of being free being me
being who I'm meant to be.

Inspired by Thelonious Monk playing, "Bye-Ya":