What are you listening to?

Music

We capture music with machines
Glorious complicated machines
Like a best seller in it’s 12th edition
But we want to here the sweet sound

Whatever form in any edition
If we could just capture it in a jar
Like an echo, wraith , fairy or ghost
Might that not be the epitome

Of what we want most
Latent echoes of performance
Not mechanized, nor copied but pure
A room full of jars just waiting
To be opened and heard
In our time of leisure

I live in words
written and hopefully heard
I scratch things down” In an analog way
Only to reinterpret into the digital fray
What is lost in the transition?

Perhaps an emphasis
On all consuming ambition
I don’t know nor understand
A piece of fine paper scribed in pen

It conveys what we intend
We bridge this realm of communication
with impulsive utterances,
quick inventions, never experienced

Personally with eye contact, No
How do we discern honesty without contact
This remote realm we engage
We live in , deceives us all

Words are not all there is
There are places between the lines
That people fill with innuendo
Not conveyed with intent

So if we think and feel
And convey with selective thought
Can we not efficiently say
What is our true intent?

The world of communication
Has evolved without astute intervention
Poetry is dying and so is art
Perhaps what I am implying

Is to make an aesthetic restart
Boot up what you truly know
And convey it with your inner glow
And then and only then

Will we truly understand
Each other.
 
Once again a Great military jazz bigband; The Airmen Of Note playing one of hundreds of arrangements written by Army, Air Force, and Marine bandsman Sammy Nestico. After serving in the military for 23 years he was an arranger for Count Basie from 1967 - 1984, and composed, arranged, or conducted albums for many musicians and singers including Quincy Jones, Phil Collins, Barbra Streisand, Michael Buble, Natalie Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Toni Tennille, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby.
 
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