I didn't do that many songs title poems (and I cheated my way through the ones I did do by adding lots of extra words ;) ), but I thought about this challenge constantly throughout the month. I was telling my husband last night that I might try writing a few poems about certain songs or artists and how they immediately transport me back to a specific time and place. My hat is freaking OFF to the many people who managed to make such gorgeous poetry without adding any of their own words. I hope I can do that at some point, too!
On the contrary Margaret, weaving in your own words was NOT cheating it was merely another way to meet the challenge- which had no rules!
I’ve had that same itch since I started this too. To explore songs and their influence and timestamp effect. Looking forward to reading more of your work here.
Once I knew this challenge was going to be about going through the alphabet using a diferent set of songs each day from an artist that began with that letter, I immediately set about planning which ones I would like to do.
Then each day, whichever artist it was time for, I would go through their albums looking for Song Titles that jumped out at me. Things that seemed to be telling a story or a fragment of a story. Things that seemed connected. It wasn't until Day 2 that I realised I could actually use the Titles as a sort of Prompt to build a story around.
After that, I think pretty much all the stories grew out of one song, or even the name of the artist, and then once I had that theme and direction in mind, I would pick other songs that fitted around it to flesh everything out into something more substantial.
It was a really fun process, and I definitely plan to continue doing more of these.
This has been such an amazing month, and it's incredible to think we all found stories that were out there just waiting to be discovered, hiding within the Song Titles of all these wonderful music artists... 😎
When I was working on the poem prompt for the letter "Z," I chose the U2 song "ZOO Station" as my inspiration. I thought it would be an intriguing concept to use the song title as a catalyst to create a series of haiku that delve into the dichotomy between nature and the urban landscape.
I made the decision to write each haiku from the perspective of a different imaginary Japanese poet. This approach allowed me to experiment with various styles and voices while maintaining a cohesive theme throughout the series.
The central concept I aimed to convey was the idea of the zoo station as a metaphorical space where the wild and the tame, the organic and the artificial, converge and clash. I employed vivid imagery to emphasize this contrast, juxtaposing elements such as the whispers of night trains and beasts in the dark against the concrete jungles and metal gates.
In order to maintain authenticity when naming my imaginary poets, I opted for traditional Japanese names generated from a name generator, placing the surname first, followed by the given name. I selected common Japanese surnames and chose a mix of male and female given names to represent different perspectives.
Although all the haiku adhere to the classic 5-7-5 syllable structure, I endeavored to imbue each imaginary poet with their own unique style. Some haiku are more abstract and metaphorical, while others are more direct and descriptive. I also incorporated various poetic devices, such as personification, alliteration, sensory imagery, and juxtaposition, to add depth and interest to the poems.
On the whole, I am quite satisfied with the outcome of the poem series. I believe it effectively captures the sense of conflict between nature and urban life, and the diverse haiku styles and voices contribute significantly to the richness and complexity of the work. My hope is that it will inspire readers to contemplate the intricacies of modern life from a fresh perspective.
That is my personal interpretation of the poem series. I am curious to hear your thoughts. Did any particular haiku resonate with you or encourage you to view things in a new light?
I completely got that, yes, and recognised that you were descriptively showing the different styles of each imaginary poet. It was fascinating and a very clever concept. Like the best Flash Fiction, it hinted at lots more going on around it, and that is always a wonderful thing to be able to accomplish. I think we approached the challenge in a fairly similar way. I also often used one Song Title as the Prompt to start building things around. I enjoyed your contributions a lot. Thanks for sharing them with us... 😎
I haven't participated in this for a while. Yet, all I can say is thank you for the grand idea and thank you to everyone who participated with such incredible effort and results. Chris and Jonathan took these to another level. I really need to go back and read more from other writers. I'm going to post another one of these tonight. I'm going back and forth between Heart and Van Halen.
It's been an absolutely incredible event. I've loved taking part in it and I've loved reading all the amazing contributions people have been submitting. Thanks for the mention. I'm glad you enjoyed the stories... 😎
Writing these song title poems is working with a special kind of limitation. There's a fair bit of room within the genre, but not a lot. To me, this is actually a good thing. Robert Frost said, I think about free verse, that it was like playing tennis without a net. He may have been wrong about that, but what he was not wrong about was how rules and limits of form serves creative freedom. Sometimes when we write, it's hard because we don't have a locus. That lack, one might say, defines the experience of writer's block. It's a case of too much freedom. With the song titles, combined with a love of the artist, one is able to zero in on that something you knew was there, but couldn't articulate until you saw the title. The one title provides the locus and one starts building to see what coalesces around it. That's how it worked for me, anyway. Which is one reason I tended to use repetition. I'm looking for structural unity as a form of aesthetic satisfaction, I suppose. What makes the exercise work especially well is that it is different from other type of 'prompts' where there is a much higher chance of it not resonating, ie. not providing a locus that is a fit for one's energy. With song titles, the energy is built in and a certain ease or 'flow' ensues in the creation.
I guess a song title offers a tried and tested element, it’s served the song, its recognition and we know it works. Then again, each song title needs to fit in the space where it’s placed within the poem with the lines after and before. I thought you did that really well, finding the position of the song titles inside the poems.
That's aboslutely right. Having the Song Titles in front of you and seeing connections between them does give you that starting point and a clear direction you can move forward in, which is hugely inspiring... 😎
The hardest task was narrowing down which artist for each letter! I didn’t plan ahead and kept it daily fresh. I did as Pilgrim did and searched for song lists and then put the ones I liked or that spoke to me, in no order into Notes (app) then spent some time playing with form and order. Trying to see where message lay or where language flowed best. I didn’t spend more than 30 minutes on them. Not because I didn’t take it seriously, rather I needed the spontaneity.
Some were easier and the words matched, moved and melded with ease. Others needed more convincing to tell their stories. Some of them were created whilst walking (always interesting to add some risk to the task😅) some over coffee and some whilst avoiding marking essays😊.
Someone else’s words they may be but aren’t all words previously used aren’t we all in a constant cycle of reuse, reformat or refresh? How we have all managed to stitch together such fun, meaningful, thought provoking and fresh verse from pre-used creation is inspiring!
Will be posting about this all soon but I leave you today with this mornings extra letter offering (with a wee not so hidden message for you all).
I dont ever write romance but there are so many love songs out there it was hard to avoid. You tongue me in honey! I'd never have the balls to write that myself but it seemed ok to use when it was someone else's words.
Thank you for the wonderful idea and opportunity. I had a blast doing this activity. I found the exercise fun but also a little challenging. In addition, I really enjoyed seeing others creations and song arrangements. As I am looking to write more, this was a great way to generate ideas for songs and poems. I definitely have to create this Poem for Z and a tribute to Frank Zappa, who I had the privilege of seeing twice, once in the 1970's and once in the 1980's.
Very nice. I like the repetition of "the torture never stops". I didn't realise you'd only been on Substack for a few weeks. Welcome! Good luck to you with your journey on here... 😎
I've already talked a bunch about my process, and did the video and what-not. But one other thing I found really interesting was the ways in which it allowed me to think about poetry, and structure in poetry. Typically, the "word" is thought of as the smallest unit of meaning, and as poets we combine words into phrases, and so on. And we write poetry. But in haiku, for instance, the kigo can often be a set of words (autumn moon, first blossoms, etc.) and take up the whole first or last line. In this sense, the "image" or "phrase-fragment" becomes the smallest unit of meaning, and then these are combined (toriawase) in the poem, to produce resonances (unlike the dominant idea in Western poetry, the goal is not to make a clear 'statement of meaning', but to encourage "meaningful suggestions" - resonant combinations). And so yeah, working with song titles was a lot like working with kigo and "images/phrasal-fragments" in haiku (and tanka). The combination of images is then achieved through kireji (the cut/join/pause/caesura). And yeah, doing this challenge really helped me learn a lot about cutting/joining, both in terms of revealing what I could already do with these techniques - so I learned a lot about my process - but then also opening the door to new ways of navigating the technique as well, which will inform my poetry moving forwards. In short, I think it taught me how far I could push the cut/join within a series of images. Super inspiring and interesting. Thanks again Pilgrim!!!!!! What a ride.
You’ve definitely taken this challenge to a philosophical, cultural and theoretical level as well as very practical. I have enjoyed reading about your processes in approaching the challenge and the video. Especially, the lines where you put where I thought they should go! Hahahahahhaa There were a few of those and I was like there’s a universal line position here. I love what you write about cuts and joins. Unsure of how to express it myself but I see that in poetry of my own, where the joint or cut could impose/inflict/withdraw meaning. What is not said, is power, what is not said is opportunities. Thank you!
Haha - yeah, it's just the way my brain works. :-) I love that you could sense where the line was about to go - and that it felt like the right place. Amazing. And yeah absolutely - you put it so well here: "What is not said, is power, what is not said is opportunities." For me, this came out of studying late-1800s and early-1900s poets like Yone Noguchi ("I have an art; that is the art of suggestion" & "express through non-expression"), Stephen Mallarme ("To suggest is to create, to name is to destroy"), F.S. Flint ("The half-said thing is the dearest: the suggestion, not the complete picture"), etc. :-)
Aw thanks so much Fotini! Tbh, that was kind of a hope of mine - to eventually do some kind of poetry course or something. It'll probably be a while away, but hopefully one day haha. Your support and encouragement of that means heaps!
Oh, and I wrote one final one a day or so ago while editing, which I guess will be my encore. It's another one using the titles of Steve Earl. :-) And it is pretty fitting as a final poem from me for the month haha.
Cheers Pilgrim - yeah, all the poems have been reformatted with lower-case and no full-stops - that's how I usually write, so ended up going with that format for these as well. :-)
I was already doing something like this in my books. Instead of regular titles for chapters, I title the chapter with a song title, with a graphic design of the title. I like the song title poetry contest too. I wrote one about the group the Police. I was going to write one about the singer vesta and Luther vandross when you were going alphabetically, but my computer wouldn't let me.
Oh no, I hope you got to write your poem on paper anyways. That’s an interesting aspect, but I think if it is a book for you, you’re fine, but please do read about using song titles as chapter names for a book to be published. Am not sure that’s something we can do. But better look it up. Love Luther! What a voice he had.
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Dam - love this. Great encore. And The Make Up! Yay - haven't listened to them in aaaaaaages - gonna have to fire up youtube and take a stroll down memory lane. :-)
A month full music and lots of unexpected poems, what else could one ask? It was a pure joy! Mind stifling, yes, but that was the part I really liked. The limitation of the exercise -using only song titles- was the greatest challenge, but it kept things rolling. Being on the flow each day, now, that is something!
Writer Pilgrim, thank you for hosting such an event, and thank you all for turning this into a celebration!
Thank you Fotini! The days you were a bit late with posting I was wondering and worrying… Is she ok? Why has she not posted? Each day you thrilled us with a new band and mesmerized us with the titles and your arrangements. Thank you for making this so much fun, educational and exciting.
I didn't do that many songs title poems (and I cheated my way through the ones I did do by adding lots of extra words ;) ), but I thought about this challenge constantly throughout the month. I was telling my husband last night that I might try writing a few poems about certain songs or artists and how they immediately transport me back to a specific time and place. My hat is freaking OFF to the many people who managed to make such gorgeous poetry without adding any of their own words. I hope I can do that at some point, too!
The ones you did had us all talking and wanting you to do more!
And I think it’s a way of letting go of the words we want in between and still not including them.
On the contrary Margaret, weaving in your own words was NOT cheating it was merely another way to meet the challenge- which had no rules!
I’ve had that same itch since I started this too. To explore songs and their influence and timestamp effect. Looking forward to reading more of your work here.
I know she didn't write these but Vonda Shepherd sang them all in Ally McBeal
Newspaper wife
Walk away Renee
This is crazy now
Baby don’t you break my heart slow
Soothe me
Tell him
Clear
You belong to me
Hooked on a feeling
Searching’ my soul
I only want to be with you
Will you marry me?
I used to love that show! Poughkeepsie! Bygones! Haha... 😎
And Barry White!
Haha! And the dancing baby! 😎
Had forgotten about that!
Once I knew this challenge was going to be about going through the alphabet using a diferent set of songs each day from an artist that began with that letter, I immediately set about planning which ones I would like to do.
Then each day, whichever artist it was time for, I would go through their albums looking for Song Titles that jumped out at me. Things that seemed to be telling a story or a fragment of a story. Things that seemed connected. It wasn't until Day 2 that I realised I could actually use the Titles as a sort of Prompt to build a story around.
After that, I think pretty much all the stories grew out of one song, or even the name of the artist, and then once I had that theme and direction in mind, I would pick other songs that fitted around it to flesh everything out into something more substantial.
It was a really fun process, and I definitely plan to continue doing more of these.
This has been such an amazing month, and it's incredible to think we all found stories that were out there just waiting to be discovered, hiding within the Song Titles of all these wonderful music artists... 😎
When I was working on the poem prompt for the letter "Z," I chose the U2 song "ZOO Station" as my inspiration. I thought it would be an intriguing concept to use the song title as a catalyst to create a series of haiku that delve into the dichotomy between nature and the urban landscape.
I made the decision to write each haiku from the perspective of a different imaginary Japanese poet. This approach allowed me to experiment with various styles and voices while maintaining a cohesive theme throughout the series.
The central concept I aimed to convey was the idea of the zoo station as a metaphorical space where the wild and the tame, the organic and the artificial, converge and clash. I employed vivid imagery to emphasize this contrast, juxtaposing elements such as the whispers of night trains and beasts in the dark against the concrete jungles and metal gates.
In order to maintain authenticity when naming my imaginary poets, I opted for traditional Japanese names generated from a name generator, placing the surname first, followed by the given name. I selected common Japanese surnames and chose a mix of male and female given names to represent different perspectives.
Although all the haiku adhere to the classic 5-7-5 syllable structure, I endeavored to imbue each imaginary poet with their own unique style. Some haiku are more abstract and metaphorical, while others are more direct and descriptive. I also incorporated various poetic devices, such as personification, alliteration, sensory imagery, and juxtaposition, to add depth and interest to the poems.
On the whole, I am quite satisfied with the outcome of the poem series. I believe it effectively captures the sense of conflict between nature and urban life, and the diverse haiku styles and voices contribute significantly to the richness and complexity of the work. My hope is that it will inspire readers to contemplate the intricacies of modern life from a fresh perspective.
That is my personal interpretation of the poem series. I am curious to hear your thoughts. Did any particular haiku resonate with you or encourage you to view things in a new light?
I completely got that, yes, and recognised that you were descriptively showing the different styles of each imaginary poet. It was fascinating and a very clever concept. Like the best Flash Fiction, it hinted at lots more going on around it, and that is always a wonderful thing to be able to accomplish. I think we approached the challenge in a fairly similar way. I also often used one Song Title as the Prompt to start building things around. I enjoyed your contributions a lot. Thanks for sharing them with us... 😎
Thank you, Chris. I found the challenge of writing a poem and reading everybody’s work a fantastic experience.
I haven't participated in this for a while. Yet, all I can say is thank you for the grand idea and thank you to everyone who participated with such incredible effort and results. Chris and Jonathan took these to another level. I really need to go back and read more from other writers. I'm going to post another one of these tonight. I'm going back and forth between Heart and Van Halen.
It's been an absolutely incredible event. I've loved taking part in it and I've loved reading all the amazing contributions people have been submitting. Thanks for the mention. I'm glad you enjoyed the stories... 😎
Writing these song title poems is working with a special kind of limitation. There's a fair bit of room within the genre, but not a lot. To me, this is actually a good thing. Robert Frost said, I think about free verse, that it was like playing tennis without a net. He may have been wrong about that, but what he was not wrong about was how rules and limits of form serves creative freedom. Sometimes when we write, it's hard because we don't have a locus. That lack, one might say, defines the experience of writer's block. It's a case of too much freedom. With the song titles, combined with a love of the artist, one is able to zero in on that something you knew was there, but couldn't articulate until you saw the title. The one title provides the locus and one starts building to see what coalesces around it. That's how it worked for me, anyway. Which is one reason I tended to use repetition. I'm looking for structural unity as a form of aesthetic satisfaction, I suppose. What makes the exercise work especially well is that it is different from other type of 'prompts' where there is a much higher chance of it not resonating, ie. not providing a locus that is a fit for one's energy. With song titles, the energy is built in and a certain ease or 'flow' ensues in the creation.
I guess a song title offers a tried and tested element, it’s served the song, its recognition and we know it works. Then again, each song title needs to fit in the space where it’s placed within the poem with the lines after and before. I thought you did that really well, finding the position of the song titles inside the poems.
That's aboslutely right. Having the Song Titles in front of you and seeing connections between them does give you that starting point and a clear direction you can move forward in, which is hugely inspiring... 😎
Well said! Love this reflection on the process.
The hardest task was narrowing down which artist for each letter! I didn’t plan ahead and kept it daily fresh. I did as Pilgrim did and searched for song lists and then put the ones I liked or that spoke to me, in no order into Notes (app) then spent some time playing with form and order. Trying to see where message lay or where language flowed best. I didn’t spend more than 30 minutes on them. Not because I didn’t take it seriously, rather I needed the spontaneity.
Some were easier and the words matched, moved and melded with ease. Others needed more convincing to tell their stories. Some of them were created whilst walking (always interesting to add some risk to the task😅) some over coffee and some whilst avoiding marking essays😊.
Someone else’s words they may be but aren’t all words previously used aren’t we all in a constant cycle of reuse, reformat or refresh? How we have all managed to stitch together such fun, meaningful, thought provoking and fresh verse from pre-used creation is inspiring!
Will be posting about this all soon but I leave you today with this mornings extra letter offering (with a wee not so hidden message for you all).
S for Simple Minds
*
Don’t you (forget about me)
*
I travel
Theme for great cities
Life in a day
*
Love Song
Ghostdancing
Speed your love to me
*
Time
Summer Solstice
Dancing barefoot
*
Alive and kicking
New gold dream
Someone Somewhere In Summer
*
New sunrise
Hypnotised
C moon cry like a baby
*
For what it’s worth
The earth that you walk upon
This is your land
*
Soul crying out
Colours fly and Catherine wheel
All the things she said
*
Sound in 70 cities
Book of brilliant things
Don’t you forget about me
…and the Lewis Capaldi video - next level! Sweet lad, great songs and such a sense of humour. Kudos to him!
And great singer too!
Love me some Lewis Capaldi! :-)
I dont ever write romance but there are so many love songs out there it was hard to avoid. You tongue me in honey! I'd never have the balls to write that myself but it seemed ok to use when it was someone else's words.
Yes, what is it about using it if someone else has said it? As if verification is needed or some type of justification?
Haha! That was a great one, yes, I remember that... 😎
Says he with shady shades on 🙃
Haha! Well I have to keep those on, because the talent on here is always shining so bright... 😎
Hahahahahhahahahaha that could be read in more than one ways Chris!
That line was a real banger! Fresh, and inspiring. It stays with me. :-)
Thank you for the wonderful idea and opportunity. I had a blast doing this activity. I found the exercise fun but also a little challenging. In addition, I really enjoyed seeing others creations and song arrangements. As I am looking to write more, this was a great way to generate ideas for songs and poems. I definitely have to create this Poem for Z and a tribute to Frank Zappa, who I had the privilege of seeing twice, once in the 1970's and once in the 1980's.
200 years old stick it out
Cosmik Debris and Inca Roads
You are what you is Zomby Woof
Ms Pinky Wind up workin in a gas station
The torture never stops
Peaches en Regalia
Black Napkins for Uncle Remus
Willie the pimp find her finer
Catholic Girls Jammin Joes Garage
The torture never stops
Why does it hurt when I pee
Dirty Love fifty fifty
Chungas Revenge
Nanook Rubs it
The torture never stops
Carolina Hardcore ecstasy
On the bus Po jama People
Ruben and the Jets
It must be a camel
The torture never stops
Very nice. I like the repetition of "the torture never stops". I didn't realise you'd only been on Substack for a few weeks. Welcome! Good luck to you with your journey on here... 😎
Hey thanks!! Enjoying it very much. I hope to keep adding photos, songs, and stories this summer.
That sounds great! I'm a guitar player myself, so I'm always interested in hearing new music. Good luck with it all... 😎
The torture never stops as repetition - excellent!!
I've already talked a bunch about my process, and did the video and what-not. But one other thing I found really interesting was the ways in which it allowed me to think about poetry, and structure in poetry. Typically, the "word" is thought of as the smallest unit of meaning, and as poets we combine words into phrases, and so on. And we write poetry. But in haiku, for instance, the kigo can often be a set of words (autumn moon, first blossoms, etc.) and take up the whole first or last line. In this sense, the "image" or "phrase-fragment" becomes the smallest unit of meaning, and then these are combined (toriawase) in the poem, to produce resonances (unlike the dominant idea in Western poetry, the goal is not to make a clear 'statement of meaning', but to encourage "meaningful suggestions" - resonant combinations). And so yeah, working with song titles was a lot like working with kigo and "images/phrasal-fragments" in haiku (and tanka). The combination of images is then achieved through kireji (the cut/join/pause/caesura). And yeah, doing this challenge really helped me learn a lot about cutting/joining, both in terms of revealing what I could already do with these techniques - so I learned a lot about my process - but then also opening the door to new ways of navigating the technique as well, which will inform my poetry moving forwards. In short, I think it taught me how far I could push the cut/join within a series of images. Super inspiring and interesting. Thanks again Pilgrim!!!!!! What a ride.
You’ve definitely taken this challenge to a philosophical, cultural and theoretical level as well as very practical. I have enjoyed reading about your processes in approaching the challenge and the video. Especially, the lines where you put where I thought they should go! Hahahahahhaa There were a few of those and I was like there’s a universal line position here. I love what you write about cuts and joins. Unsure of how to express it myself but I see that in poetry of my own, where the joint or cut could impose/inflict/withdraw meaning. What is not said, is power, what is not said is opportunities. Thank you!
Haha - yeah, it's just the way my brain works. :-) I love that you could sense where the line was about to go - and that it felt like the right place. Amazing. And yeah absolutely - you put it so well here: "What is not said, is power, what is not said is opportunities." For me, this came out of studying late-1800s and early-1900s poets like Yone Noguchi ("I have an art; that is the art of suggestion" & "express through non-expression"), Stephen Mallarme ("To suggest is to create, to name is to destroy"), F.S. Flint ("The half-said thing is the dearest: the suggestion, not the complete picture"), etc. :-)
You would be a damn great teacher, Dick. If you ever decide to follow that path, sign me in, whatever the course!
Aw thanks so much Fotini! Tbh, that was kind of a hope of mine - to eventually do some kind of poetry course or something. It'll probably be a while away, but hopefully one day haha. Your support and encouragement of that means heaps!
Can you point us to the video please? We want to see it again. Especially for @Gloria
Oh, and I wrote one final one a day or so ago while editing, which I guess will be my encore. It's another one using the titles of Steve Earl. :-) And it is pretty fitting as a final poem from me for the month haha.
.
-: Last Words :-
.
heaven or hell?
.
raise the dead—
heaven ain't going
nowhere,
.
god is god
&
i can wait
.
.
.
Great encore. "I can wait" and I love the lack of full stop!
Cheers Pilgrim - yeah, all the poems have been reformatted with lower-case and no full-stops - that's how I usually write, so ended up going with that format for these as well. :-)
The grand finale!!!
Hehe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4
Here's my encore:
A Tribe Called Quest
Can I kick it?
Check the rhyme
1nce again
Excursions
lyrics to go
Can I kick it?
Oh my god
Find a way
Verses from the abstract
Push it along
Can I kick it
Butter Dis generation
Phony rappers
The hop, jazz
The space program
I was already doing something like this in my books. Instead of regular titles for chapters, I title the chapter with a song title, with a graphic design of the title. I like the song title poetry contest too. I wrote one about the group the Police. I was going to write one about the singer vesta and Luther vandross when you were going alphabetically, but my computer wouldn't let me.
Oh no, I hope you got to write your poem on paper anyways. That’s an interesting aspect, but I think if it is a book for you, you’re fine, but please do read about using song titles as chapter names for a book to be published. Am not sure that’s something we can do. But better look it up. Love Luther! What a voice he had.
It’s on here somewhere. On another thread. I can check it from my POSTS link on my account. Shows all the posts I have made and to who.
Don’t worry about the song titles as chapters. I have already had that cleared. But it already sound fun!
Oh great, yeah, I was reading about using them as titles for chapters so thought I’d better share that! Good you’re sorted!
The big exit - from one of the greatest bands ever!
.
Make Up
.
Born on the Floor
.
We Can’t Be Contained
Evidence Is Everywhere
Have You Heard the Tapes?
Every Baby Cries the Same
C’mon, Let’s Spawn
.
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMVyKp1CEtM
Every baby cries the same…
Dam - love this. Great encore. And The Make Up! Yay - haven't listened to them in aaaaaaages - gonna have to fire up youtube and take a stroll down memory lane. :-)
A month full music and lots of unexpected poems, what else could one ask? It was a pure joy! Mind stifling, yes, but that was the part I really liked. The limitation of the exercise -using only song titles- was the greatest challenge, but it kept things rolling. Being on the flow each day, now, that is something!
Writer Pilgrim, thank you for hosting such an event, and thank you all for turning this into a celebration!
Thank you Fotini! The days you were a bit late with posting I was wondering and worrying… Is she ok? Why has she not posted? Each day you thrilled us with a new band and mesmerized us with the titles and your arrangements. Thank you for making this so much fun, educational and exciting.
I felt I was in good company so it all came naturally! Thank you for getting us together!!!
Likewise! You are that great company and we are grateful for the time you spent here. I still need to go over the music you sent.