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Just missing ferry –
Meant more time to play the nice
Public piano –
At Alderney terminal
That I rarely get to play
09.06.18
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Notes to this poem…
Public piano –
Broken means dream of playing
Moonlight Sonata –
Beneath a full moon outdoors –
Will have to wait one more year
08.24.18
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Notes to this poem…
Must find out where all
The pianos in town the
Public can play are –
So I can go play them all –
Concert around the city
07.23.18
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Notes to this poem…
If you’re in your prime –
Better throw the bums a buck
And a dime these days
07.23.18
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Notes to this poem…
Whatever that crap is at
The Jazz Festival –
It surely ain’t jazz!
07.13.18
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Notes to this poem…
Modern jazz should be
Its own music genre –
Without the word jazz in it
07.13.18
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Notes to this poem…
Bei mir bist du Schoen –
That must be Nova Scotian –
Meaning “that you’re grand” –
How that jazz busker on the
Harbourwalk covers that tune!
06.21.18
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Notes to this poem…
Busker should have played –
Brother Can You Spare a Dime –
As Bluenose II sailed by –
Not Lullaby of Birdland –
Midday on the Harbourwalk
06.17.18 – 06.20.18
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Notes to this poem…
Lullaby of Birdland feels
Out of place midday
On the Harbourwalk
06.17.18
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Notes to this poem…
Unsolicited –
I played the piano at
The Farmers’ Market –
And spread Bach’s and Beethoven’s
Gospel this Sunday morning
05.27.18
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Notes to this poem…
I enjoy playing
Real pianos because –
They play me back with –
Reverberations not found
In digital pianos
04.28.18
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Notes to this poem…
I don’t have beautiful hands –
But they now sure can –
Play beautiful tunes
02.02.18 – 02.05.18
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Notes to this poem…
Minh Tan's Old Poetry 