May - title song poetry challenge A

1 May - letters A

May is dedicated to song title poetry. We write poems with the help of our favourite artists using their song titles only. My understanding is we can use song titles, don’t change them in anyway and don’t talk badly about the band/song if you wish to stay out of trouble.

Each day in May will have a letter assigned. So, in alphabetical order, get started with a band or singer with A.

This could take all night

If I didn't have you
I'll be ok
Birmingham
Sitting on top of the world

This could take all night
Colleen
The voice inside
Promises

If I didn't have you
Red magic marker
Dark horse
Fall from grace

by Amanda Marshall

This song title poetry festival started at the back of NaPoWriMo (national poetry writing month) last year. There was a prompt with the word Cardigan. It appeared in a song by a famous singer songwriter. I took the word and instead remembered The Cardigans, fronted by the lovely Nina Persson.

I took a bunch of their song titles and wrote a poem starting with the song that came to my mind first. You can read that song title poem and some of the comments here on my publication.

It isn’t a copyright issue as the lines are all quotes from song titles and you cannot copyright those. However, some titles may be extremely unique and other countries may have trademark laws that restrict use. We are celebrating music and our love for the artists and these songs. Don’t use the titles without letting us know who the artists are and one way to do this is by adding a short sentence at the bottom of your song title poem.

One artist by letter. So if it’s A like today, only use Abba, or Aerosmith or Anastasia, don’t mix artists. (For mixing artists and all that join us on First Friday of the month June to April). You can post more than one poem if you feel you want to do two poems about two different artists. Stay for the whole of May or pop in as and when you can.

My Favourite Game 

Erase and Rewind
My Favourite Game
In the round
A Lovefool
Hold me
For what it’s worth

This “poem” consists of titles from The Cardigans. 

Photo by Patrick Federi on Unsplash

I hope you guys join us again. Your reward is the community in here and making new friends and getting readers to your own stack eventually. I hear some friendships have grown out of the May festival of last year.

Rules: Be kind! Read others’ song title poems and comment. You can use the same title over again and you can write stanzas, sonnets you name it. Title can be the artist name or a song title. The archive is open for all previous song title posts from May onwards.

Dick Whyte Fotini Masika Chris J. Franklin Gloria Horton-Young roger hawcroft Gordon Schenck Treasa Tom Shaw Jonathan Potter Rod Bluhm PS Lorcan man of aran The Sea in Me (Síodhna) Kelly Thompson Steve Spencer Margaret Ann Silver Bethel Hew Richard Blaisdell Darienne Tali Sarnetzky Richard Donnelly Berkana Marinarena

Berkana

Dylan Delgado

B W Bruso

Marinarena

Please note that some of the emails will come to your inbox and others will be posted to web only as it can add a sense of overwhelm to get 31 song title poems in your inbox especially during the days my podcast gets dropped or it’s SPAWN and Prompt Station time.

If you took part last year, here’s a look at what you did.

Put your song title poem in the comments below. Subscribe, comment and have fun!