Meanderings and Muses: Trombone Solo by Stoddard King

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Trombone Solo by Stoddard King

TROMBONE SOLO

I like people
Who strut their stuff,
Any kind of people,
Nice ones of tough,
I like people,
With swagger in their step,
Hot-air people, full
Of popcorn and pep,
Four-flushing people
Whose gestures are free –
Strut your stuff, people,
Don’t
Mind
Me!

I like people
Who feel their oats,
High-stepping people
With ego in their throats,
Telling tall stories,
Taller than the steeple,
Getting away with it –
That kind of people.
If it’s done properly,
Carried with an air,
Strut your stuff, people –
I
Won’t
Care

Stoddard King

1 comment:

Unknown said...: I noticed how the poem has a very even flow. The poem also has occasional rhymes that help keep the reader entertained.

Line 1:I like people
I chose this line because of how it shows the writers love people in general.
Line 2:High-stepping people
I chose this line because of how it focuses on pretentious people.
Line 3: Getting away with it
I chose this line because of how it is about the entertaining people that lie to create fun stories and such
Line 4:Strut your stuff, people
I chose this line because of how the writer finds the cocky or egotistical people entertaining.

I think this poem is unique on how it bases itself off the people I perceive as annoying instead of entering. The poem is written well and I wonder how the writer came up with such bizarre metaphors.

This poem's tone is definitely teasing. I say this because the way she describes that type of person is a weird almost silly manor.

I think the writer is the one speaking in this poem as it’s all in the first person and it’s not far fetched for a person to think like this.; June 28, 2021 at 4:13 AM

Books Read

Every year I promise myself I'm going to keep a log of books I'm reading. And I immediately forget. Then I remember again, but only after I've already read a few books, but can't be sure I'll remember them all and so - - can't bring myself to start the list. It's sort of like missing the first 30 minutes of a movie. I just can't watch it if I've missed the beginning. And being the anal ol' soul I am, I can't bring myself to start a list if I can't be sure it's going to be a complete one. So. I decided to keep a list during 2010 and found it to be a fun thing. Especially for a compulsive list-maker like myself.

You can see my 2010 list here -

http://meanderingsandmuses.blogspot.com/2010/12/books-read-during-2010.html

And, you can see my 2011 list here -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2011/12/books-read-during-2011.html

And here's my 2012 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2013/01/books-read-in-2012.html

And, my 2013 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2013/12/books-read-duing-2013.html

And, my 2014 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2014/12/books-read-in-2014.html

And, my 2015 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2015/12/books-read-in-2015_14.html

And, my 2016 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2016/12/books-read-during-2016.html

And, my 2017 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2017/12/books-read-during-2017.html

And, my 2018 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2018/12/books-i-read-in-2018.html

And, my 2019 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2019/12/books-i-read-in-2019.html

And, my 2020 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2020/07/books-read-in-2020.html

And, my 2021 list - http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2021/12/books-i-read-in-2021.html

And, my 2022 list - http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2022/12/books-i-read-in-2022.html

Books Read in 2023

The Magical Summer of Miranda Stone by A.D. Brazeau *
The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
What Never Happened A Thriller by Rachel Howzell Hall
Our Place on the Island by Erika Montgomery *
Looking for Clara by Simona Grossi
A Boat on the Ocean by Simona Grossi
The Little Red French Door by Simona Grossi
Take the Long Way Home by Rochelle Alers *
Wedding of the Season by Lauren Edmondson
Standing in the Shadows by Peter Robinson
The Block Party by Jamie Day
Sally Brady's Italian Adventure by Christina Lynch *
The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman *
My Magnolia Summer by Victoria Benton Frank
All the Days of Summer by Nancy Thayer *
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges *
Prom Mom by Laura Lippman *
I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
In a Hard Wind A McKenzie Novel by David Housewright *
Identity by Nora Roberts **
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis *
The Dark Edge of Night by Mark Pryor
The Friday Night Club by Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman and M. J. Rose *
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus **
The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand *
The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman
Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding *
The Paris Mystery by Kirsty Manning *
Elsie de Wolfe's Paris: Frivolity Before the Storm by Charlie Scheips
The Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George
The Heirloom Inn by Olivia Miles
The Love Scribe by Amy Meyerson *
Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head
Justice Is Served A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for RBG by Leslie Karst *
China by Edward Rutherfurd *
The Bird Hotel by Joyce Maynard ***
The Darlings by Hannah McKinnon
From Dust to Stardust by Kathleen Rooney **
Summer Roommates by Holly Chamberlin
An American Beauty by Shana Abe *
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
House of Clouds by K. L. Gleeson
The River Runs South by Audrey Ingram *
A Likely Story by Leigh McMullan Abramson *
The Thing About Home by Rhonda McKnight * *
All the Leaves Are Brown How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart by Scott G. Shea *
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay ***
A Killing of Innocents by Deborah Crombie *
What Became of Magic by Paige Crutcher
Halfway to You by Jennifer Gold *
A Paris Odyssey by Axel Forrester * *
At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber * *
Sleepless City by Reed Farrel Coleman * * **
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright * *
Homecoming by Kate Morton * * *
The Secret of FBI File 100-3-116 by Mark de Castrique **
Émilienne A Novel of Belle Epoque Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen **
The Truth Against the World by David Corbett ** **
The Summer of Fall by Laura Lippman *
The Book of Delights, Essays by Ross Gay ***
The Beach House by Jane Green *
The Measure of Silence by Elizabeth Langston * *
Silence of the Seamaid by Ann Medlock ****
Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews **
Summer on the French Riviera by Jennifer Bohnet
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane * **
We Are Family by Beth Moran
The Beginning of Everything by Jackie Fraser *
Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zanes * *
Wildwood Magic by Willa Reece *
The Engagement Party by Finley Turner
The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger ***
Day by Michael Cunningham
The Tiffany Girls by Shelley Noble *
The Chateau by Jaclyn Goldis * *
California Golden by Melanie Benjamin
Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy * * * * *
All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby * * * **

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