Looking Back on Spring/Summer 2015 at The Song Is, Part 1

This evening while the judges are mulling over the poems I'd like to begin looking back at the poems published this spring/summer at The Song Is...  Although you won't be voting on the poems, feel free to go back to them. A good poem is always worth reading.   A great poem is always worth rereading.  

Kavon Ward (spoken word):
“I Am Michael Brown”
“I Am Trayvon Martin”

http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/02/kavon-wards-i-am-michael-brown.html

Jerry A. Scuderi:
“Frivolous Fury”
“A Morning of Manna”
“Drizzled Darkness”
“Green Pea Soup”
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-winter-wonderland.html

“Men in Blue”
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-mourningmemory-contest-continuesand.html

“Yellow Bird”
“Working for Carrots”
“Abigail”
“Soggy Doggy”
“Pizza Pup”

http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/04/jerry-scuderis-pet-poems.html

Joan McNerney:
“Dream House”
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/02/poetry-by-joan-mcnerney-and-flash.html

Will Mayo:
“Alone”
“What Lurks in These Woods”
“Smitten”
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/02/poetry-by-joan-mcnerney-and-flash.html

“The Talk”
“Last Gasp”
“Edge of Night”
“The Night”
“The Raven”
"Notes on a Man Made Mad"
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/04/flash-fiction-and-poem-by-will-mayo.html

Charles Clifford Brown III
“Promise to Momma”
“For Dad”
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/promise-to-momma-and-for-dad-by-charles.html

David S. Pointer
“Beyond Eugenics Laws”
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-mourningmemory-contest-continuesand.html

“Smokeless Windjammers”
“Agelast Syndrome Overtime”

http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/05/two-more-by-david-pointer.html

Avis D. Matthews
“Chicago, 1971”
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/in-place-of-memory-trying-not-to-be-in.html

Doug Mathewson
“Which Goodbye”
“Sequenced Dream”
“Woman’s Way”
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/which-goodbye-and-other-work-by-doug.html

Catfish McDaris
“Elizabeth”
“Animal Crackers”
“17 Cents a Year”
“700 People Dancing Somewhere”http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/03/while-im-counting-votes.html

“Aida”
“61 Winters”
“California”
“We All Go Away Like an Echo of Sad Laughter”
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/04/get-ready-for-next-blogtalk-radio-show.html

Bea Garth
“Robert”
http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/04/get-ready-for-next-blogtalk-radio-show.html

To finish up, here is some music for you.  Continuing the theme of the poems, I'll look back at some of the music I posted this spring/summer.

Lately I have been listening to John Coltrane and Tommy Flanagan's album The Cats.  Here is "Minor Mishap" from that album:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAhal_-lNdI

Bud Powell's "Lullaby of Birdland" is here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW9EVC9Yv70

I am also going to bring back Ahmad Jamal's "Poinciana":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cytUz9KkK9M

As it is Sunday night, I'll finish with Ben Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama's "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca1vnGfIWVo