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Fine Poetry by John Newlin
John Newlin is a published poet with his books on sale through national distributors. However, we can still claim him as our local California poet. Enjoy
Click on the following link which leads to the Amazon page for more information about John and the availability of his book for purchase. The Title is, The Poetry Cafe.
With his permission we have two selections written by John Newlin
Consensual Sax
In the smoky
midnight hour
at the N'orleans Blue Nile
on Frenchman Street,
we danced, hip to hip,
swaying bodies, grazing lips.
From the stage
the sax player's breath
rendered his magic riffs
with a heartfelt touch,
floating, teasing above
the rich, husky line
of the thrumming bass.
Soaking in the sweet jazz,
through the late musky hour
we lost ourselves in misty time
while drifting on the liquid sound
of that consensual sax.
To Tell A Love
How does one tell of one love to another?
In voice quicker and drier than the wind,
pretending the cup shared with the former
quenched no thirst from its imperfect blend?
How does one recount to one's current love
the loving once so fervently embraced?
With glib tongue and averted eyes above,
no hint that old thoughts ever be retraced?
How, to a now love, does one ever speak
of the gladdened days and nights freely spent
basking in the warm glow of former fire's heat?
With feckless words of disdain, coldly lent?
How, to a true love, does one yet express
an older love's truth not yet forgotten?
With cotton candy lips so sweetly pressed
on melting words deceitfully begotten?
How does one say of an old love to new?
By holding new love so tenderly near.
By speaking of love's worth, so dear, so true
and no word of old love finding new's ear.
The poet at work
