December 2, 2007

Day 2: Music as inspiration

Choose a song, performer, or band that you love to listen to and let the music (and perhaps lyrics) inspire your poem today.
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6 comments:

Deborah said...

Favorite Christmas song: In the Bleak Mid-Winter. Retouched as a mediation on impeding Seasonal Affective Disorder.


The moaning made
in bleak mid-winter
by blood of iron
sleep like stone

Snow is falling
snow on
snow and muffles
sharp to dull

Light descending
Light receding
Light retreating
Long and now ago

1:58 PM
jana said...

deborah: love it!! :)

do you wanna come and visit us in sunny socal this christmas??

6:16 PM
Caroline said...

I really want to contribute, but I'm blanking!

Deborah, I loved your poem.

8:04 PM
Brooke said...

When I’m feeling nothing I can make the sound
Of blood rushing behind my eyes by shutting them tight

And it feels a little like I’m trying to contain too much
like the knot might form at my throat

*

My affection is large
Too large for my catalog list to keep in check

I think about the sensation and it wrenches up my face
It makes me shiver like it already hurts

It weighs down on me and I can’t decide what it might feel like
Somewhere else alone without a scale

But I am only only only one person

11:37 PM
Bored in Vernal said...

She is defiantly shouting
Hands on hips
Fa La La
While I try to
Deck the Halls
La La La La
And Boughs of Holly
Torn off the shelves
And thrown in a fit of
Fa La
I must finish
shopping
quickly
La La La La
Sit in that cart, you!
'Tis the season
There goes the red ribbon
Fa La La
Sit there and be jolly
Before I deck your halls
Fa
La
La

8:52 AM
Zenaida said...

Radiohead - Nude

You'll see my heart,
go there slowly,
to share my intentions.

hell is far away from You,
for me,
what the degrees might mean,
your glory thins?

dirty water washes my wounds,
mind wrings soap leaving slime,
is it worth
thinking?

12:00 AM

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