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Street Love
by Walter LaVerne Jones → (All Poetry by Walter LaVerne Jones)
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They came like flies in search of the sound, many stopped to play and a few stayed, all left with a special love for the people they saw and felt.


In a night fill with the will of swill I drown sorrow in the mead of last night


Take the window seat and ride out of sight in blues sung right mouth organ


Screams back the dying sound of another bottle going down so smooth


Hear the kid popping the rag not much of a sag in the rag as he takes back


The sound of a screaming eagle as it finds a home in his leather bag


Face shines like the voice that makes the blues sing loud going down


Can springs a high flame warm goes down as the bottle finds a home


Bag brings out a shoeshine rag and the blues echo across town


Eddie brings his guitar boogie ringing out the car battery amp


She steps forward shy with a whiskey voice and all sing harmony


Belts out the pure blues all souls captured in her light from stars given


Smiles come from all there we are street music living live audience


Fallen down dead drunk a troubadour skips the crowd and all step aside


Feet move like a queen in a sailor’s dance he walks but it is a dance


Slide the sandman over and the melody cries permission to sing low


Keep the flow as the line starts to form in grace and step one from the back


Hot lady steps up and they all start to sing fire is hot she is hotter gin down


King of the road finds a place by the warmth tells of country boy blues


Juice harp and mouth organ, spoons crashing in hot tin drums break hearts


No better band would ever be found just a bunch of old drunks sing blues


Willie shares a beer, and Whiskey River runs dry, Hank hits a lick or two


Street music leaves the mind reaching for the sound of lonely cast out


No measure of place or time just good old boys singing their hearts


Old no new a place for everybody, bag now empty, just foot taping


It was in the merry month of life they all stopped to share their dream


Some they danced all sang from the bottom of the soul so special


Best ever to play or sing all graced her stage the curbs of the street


Theater sold out and she stepped outside and sang the best she had


Hearts melted and minds twisted for a better view of voice and love


The boys from the band stand with the crowd applauding


In a night fill with the will of swill I drown sorrow in the mead of last night


Take the window seat and ride out of sight in blues sung right mouth organ


Screams back the dying sound of another bottle going down so smooth


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 Reviews of "Street Love"
Reviewed by Mitzi Jackson
Reviewed on January 24, 2005
Iloved it!!!I loved it!!!I loved it!!
took me to the south street performers
New Orleans and juke joints of Mississippi
back in Bassfield....could feel the rhythm in this write
oh so enjoyable!!!

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on January 24, 2005
The faces, the smells and the excitement have come alive within this poem of an impromptu gig on the street. I used to play a juice harp, although in those days we called the jew harps. Don't ask me why.

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on January 24, 2005
Another powerful write from you Walter!!

love Tinka

Reviewed by Judy Lloyd (Reader)
Reviewed on January 23, 2005
Again you are in splendid form as you write these so well Walter.


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