This is me engaging in internet intercourse through the media of poetry and song. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT ON ANYTHING THAT TAKES YOUR FANCY! Genuine comment/critique/discussion of poetry/individual poems is quite rare (for me) so please say something; be brutal if needs be! The red emboldened links below will take you to individual poems with the most recent first. Navigate to other pieces using, 'Categories' or specific links at the bottom of this and the other pages. Click the title pieces to access the poem in full. A selection of videos of TWaTsongs and video-poems are also available when you click a link icon.

Tag: music

music poems Song lyrics

All the Way There and All the Way Back (song lyric)

Post author By Pete Aki'i
Post date November 19, 2012
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I went for a ride – on the back of my old blues harp. Chasin’ the blue notes, sevenths and sharps blowin’ the steel real hard. I went as low as it is to go and up so high I grazed the sky. All on the back of a beaten up old blues harp. I […]

Tags blue notes, guitar, music, phoenix, rebirth, renewal, resurrection

Prose

Harpin’ on the Street; music from the pedestrian lane.

Post author By Pete Aki'i
Post date August 22, 2012
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There was a time in my life when I enjoyed the status of ‘full time musician’… I’ve yearned for that status many times since, though not in the manner I am about to describe to you. So – was it as a member of a successful touring band playing to thousands every night? Or maybe […]

Tags busking, harmonica, music, saxophone, street entertainment