May - title song poetry challenge R

18 May - letters R

May is dedicated to song title poetry. Letter R today. How are we doing with 11 letters to go? There are some other themes that will fill up May. As always, thank you for treating this space with grace, love and music. As much as I love to read a title of a song I know in your song title poems, there’s a lot of charm and wonder in discovering new songs by well known artists and new artists. If you’re here and have wondered about this space, it’s free. That gives you the opportunity to decide if you want to be generous or not. For £50/year you get this publication going so you can keep on enjoying free events like this.

Alimony

Alimony
Do Re Mi
One Meat Ball
Pigmeat

My Old Kentucky Home
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
France Chance
Available Space

Goin' to Brownsville
Dark Is the Night
How Can You Keep On Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)
Teardrops Will Fall

Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All
Money Honey 
Vigilante Man
Fool for a Cigarette/Feelin' Good

Married man's a fool
Mexican divorce
Good night, Irene
Good morning Mr. Railroad man

Ry Cooder

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, we started with a band or singer with A and now it’s letter R.

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.

Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash

One artist by letter. So if it’s A, 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

And then you kissed me
After all
Losers. Been it.
Your new cuckoo
Communication
For what it's worth

This “poem” consists of titles from The Cardigans. 

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.

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.

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R day is like a constant radio and I couldn’t resist to do one more:

Your new morning alarm
Vibes alright
you and me
late to work 

The way you make me feel
surviving 
therapy
hold on

I feel so alive
in the summer 
you were there
throw that shit out

Vibes alright