Saturday, January 14, 2023

Poets' Blues

Joe Bonamassa at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 2013

 

Click here and listen to "Stop!" as you read


Bonamassa plays,

trancelike, dripping sweat,

buoyed on notes

from the deep heart's core,

a riff that curls the lip.


If words alone

could weigh as much

we might have cured our blues,

leaned back, and let it rip.



—Image a screensave from Joe Bonamassa Official - "Stop!"- Tour De Force: Shepherd's Bush Empire, linked above