May - title song poetry challenge W

26 May - letters W

May is dedicated to song title poetry. Letter W today. Wham! Time goes fast and the challenge continues for every single day of May until we resume to our monthly service for the rest of the year. Once the alphabet finishes we have other themes for the song title poems. Hope you’re having fun so far and that you read and comment posts from others. Hit the subscribe button while you’re here. This challenge and the majority of my Substack is free. Paid subscribers get my podcast Writer Pilgrim Sounds which has poetry, travel and interviews to inspire your creative life. You’re welcome to upgrade to a paid subscription which is about the cost of a coffee per month. Upgrade if you can and thank you for the kind and generous subscribers who help keep this space free!

Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt

After Hours
Rules don't stop
One in, one out

Textbook
You should learn
Return the favor

Can't lose
You've lost your shit
Dumb luck

Impatience
Bought myself a grave
Worth the wait

The scene is dead
Lousy reputation
Let's see it

by We Are Scientists

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 W.

Photo by Victrola Record Players on Unsplash

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, 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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