I like to write poems about Baha’is who excelled/ or excel in their creative field, and very briefly met Dizzy Gillespie at a Baha’i youth conference when I was a teenager. Here is the poetic tribute I wrote about his life.
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I saw you blow the trumpet
On Sesame Street
Tee, Arr,You, Em, Pee, Ee, Tee.
Your balloon cheeks
Transferring your spirit into The Sounds of Bebop.
My cheeks look funny, but they don’t hurt
This they made your epitaph
On the evening news
That’s all they could say
But you
You did more Dizzy
You loved that Cat God.
You were a Herald
Bringing Unity
Blending a trumpet
With a Didgeridoo.
What did you do?
You loved that Cat God.
When you played at Carnegie Hall
Your music
Blew a portrait of
The Spirit of Olinga;
Servant of Baha’u’llah
Hand of the Cause
An inspiration to you.
Joyful all you trumpeters rise
Dizzy is coming to the skies.
Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk
John Coltrane and Miles Davis
Glory to your bebop King.
Peace in heaven and music’s child
Mr Goh will wait awhile
To hear…
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