May - title song poetry challenge V

23 May - letters V

May is dedicated to song title poetry. Letter V today. Thank you for treating this space with grace, love and music. This publication is free and gives you the opportunity to share your song titles. The daily challenge runs for the month of May and then we do this monthly the rest of the year. There are more free events. For £50/year you get this publication going so you can keep on enjoying free events like this. A heartfelt thank you to those who have upgraded and keep the free events going for everyone to enjoy. Thank you for your love and support. Tomorrow’s song title will have a theme where you pick one or more artists. We’ll return to letters after the weekend again.

Wild one

            I'm ready for love
            Heat wave

      Love
      Nowhere to run

   A love like yours
   I should be proud

No more tearstained make up
In my lonely room

   Wild one
   I gotta let you go 

      In and out of my life
      Bless you

         What am I going to do without your love
         I can't dance to that music you're playing

            Tear it down
            You've been in love too long  

Songs sung by Martha and the Vandellas

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 V.

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.

Photo by Sašo Tušar on Unsplash

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, 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.

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