Come on my beauty
Stop being all broody
Put on a dress, get out of your pajamaCome on sweet cookie
Stop looking so gloomy
Paint your lips, forget all the dramaI know the stage is all quiet and spooky
I know we all feel sad and droopy
We’ll turn on the lights and tune the pianoFill the place with laughter and goofy
With everything that makes life goody goody
I won’t let my love wilt in the shadowTell the piano player to play the boogie woogie
©RedCat
We’ll dance ‘til we’re all happy and woozy
Let’s us hear again your soaring soprano
Written for tonight’s Poetics: The Poet as Painter prompt at dVerse. Where Laura asks us to choose one title of modern and contemporary abstract art and write a painterly poem – in other words, paint a picture that we imagine fits the title.
I chose Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian, as it directly spoke to my longing for dance and fun. And while listening to Count Basie, imagined a very different painting then the referenced one.
The world according to RedCat 
Well!! I, for one, am ready to dance the boogie woogie! And at my age, I know how …. Wonderful poetry.
Thank you! 💖 Despite my age I do know how thanks to teachers thinking all dances are worth preserving. 💃
i like the stage all spooky in normal times but get that piano tuned i need some live music to cheer me up right now. thank you
I too like the stage a bit spooky, but right now it mostly feel empty and forlorn, hence filling it with music, dance and laughter.
This is so much fun! Dance and be happy!
You certainly got my foot tapping with this poem, Helene! I love the fun rhymes, rhythm and use of the imperative at the beginning, which is a great hook, encouraging me to get up and dance. The splash of light on the stage ‘all quiet and spooky’ is a volta that unleashes laughter, boogie woogie piano and a soaring soprano.
An uplifting boogie-woogie poem
taking us out of the darker times with this one – thank you!
“we’ll turn on the lights and tune the piano
Fill the place with laughter and goofy”
‘Put on a dress, get out of your pajama’ I think somebody needs to tell me this at the moment! A boogie woogie would do me good…this made my smile :-)
Fun, musical riff off of boogie-woogie!
Love this! 💝💝 Excellent, excellent use of rhyme here and yes you’ve got me dancing!
Until we can go out dancing here is a song I remember