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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MONK, THELONIOUS (1917-1982) Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER LISTENING TO MONK, by THOMAS C. DENT Poem Source First Line: Too much the city's cacophonous noise and light Last Line: Death just around the corner %of midnight Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians BABYSITTING TO THELONIOUS MONK, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: My niece wants eggs, now, please, and I swirl Last Line: Pooling in her small dark hands, spilling through fingers %till spilling, child, is what it's about Subject(s): Child Care; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982) BANDSTAND, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk's dissonant hat Last Line: Who could dance Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians BANDSTAND, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk's dissonant hat Last Line: For mother and dad %who could dance Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians BLUEHAWK, by ANNE WALDMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk's gone Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians BLUEHAWK, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk's gone Last Line: Soar high Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians CREPUSCULE WITH NELLIE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk at the five spot Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians CREPUSCULE WITH NELLIE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk at the five stop Last Line: And where the hell was nellie? Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians ELEGY FOR THELONIOUS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Damn the snow Last Line: Pulled down over his eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians ELEGY FOR THELONIUS, by MICHAEL FOLEY Poem Source First Line: I went to jazz on a summer's day Last Line: Odd pauses - then more tart notes come Subject(s): Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982) FOR MONK, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: All is cool and boundless as a rolling Last Line: Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Tired old fear. Oh! Oh! Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians HUMPHF, by JOHN SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: They say monk Last Line: Some more of that old north carolina boogaloo Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians IN WALKED BUD WITH A PALETTE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take one pompeii-eyed old man Last Line: Thrower behind the curtain . Subject(s): Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Paintings & Painters KNOCKING DONKEY FLEAS OFF A POET FROM SOUTHSIDE OF CHI, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A worldman Last Line: Bringing the rest of the world with it Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians MONK'S DREAM, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: A beautiful man is sleeping under a pine tree Last Line: Coltrane! Coltrane! Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians MONK'S DREAM, by ART LANGE Poem Source First Line: I welcome though Last Line: Enough for now to be here Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians MONK'S POINT, by ART LANGE Poem Source First Line: What's all this about Last Line: Completely gone, no other Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are a memory system Last Line: Makes us think so Subject(s): Jazz; Memory; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are a memory system Last Line: That fills us %makes us think so Subject(s): Jazz; Memory; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians PLEA FOR WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION, by WILLIAM WANTLING Poem Source First Line: To make up for t. Monk Last Line: Always %pain Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians REFUGE AT THE ONE STEP DOWN, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: Shrapnel lives in morton's neck, so his head stays Last Line: This time nobody's talking. Morton is the moment %you open the door after a long ride home in the da Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians SONG FOR JEANNIE, by BILL TREMBLAY Poem Source First Line: This is a song for you about you Last Line: Dance, little flower of the womb, dance now! Subject(s): Jazz; Love - Loss Of; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians STUFFY TURKEY, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: I limp along, looking for feathers Last Line: Can you hear me above all this jazz? Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians; Turkeys THELONIOUS, by REUBEN M. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Bizarre? %mysterioso? %I say no Last Line: And he %a gardener %hell bent %on raising %any beauty %waiting %on the other %side Subject(s): Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982) THELONIOUS MONK IN THE REDWOODS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Now that he was %ever here Last Line: As he is, %as you are -- now Subject(s): Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982) THELONIOUS SPHERE MONK, by WILLIAM CORBETT Poem Source First Line: Cold, the day you leave Last Line: And hear you, wordless, sing Subject(s): Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982) TWO VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY THELONIOUS MONK: 1. BLUE MONK, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Solid, as the man himself would say Last Line: With the true, blue beauty of his song: 'blue monk'! Subject(s): Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers TWO VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY THELONIOUS MONK: 2. BLUE MONK, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Richochet: %radius: %radiating Last Line: Releasing: %remaining: %repeating Subject(s): Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers WELL YOU NEEDN'T, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Find uncle fred's photograph Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians WELL, YOU NEEDN'T, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rather than hold his hands properly Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Mujsic Teachers; Pianos |
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