RIDING ON THE RAINBOW by Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

 

(With the Jazz Giants at my

first poetry reading 22:5:68)

Boom! Boom! Boom!

the bass rumbles, trumpet screams, 

cymbals hiss, sax moans, the piano clanks.

And off I go

streaking across the sky like David's slingshot

hitting 'The Giants' 

into the rainbow's face.

Up and up 

on a wild horse of jazz 

we galloped on a network 

of blue notes 

delivering the message: 

Men, Brothers, Giants!