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Article #733518Re: Philosophical songs
From: Will Dockery
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:20
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:20
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On Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 8:43:17 PM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote: > On Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 8:18:31 PM UTC-5, JD Chase wrote: > > > > > > Lifeβs a funny proposition after all-George M Cohan > > > > > The Wanderer-Eden Ahbez > > > > > Sweet bird-Joni Mitchell > > > > > > > > It's a start...now you could have > > > > > > > > (with thanks to) > > > > > > > > Life's a funny proposition > > > > after all, the wanderer > > > > is a sweet bird. > > > > > > > > > > > > Now you cannot enter the Sunday Sampler with the above but you could any day of the week..with thanks for inspiration to whomever. > > > > > > > > So try it with book titles, movie title..see what you can come up with. > > > > > > My poem based on P Floyd song titles: > > > > > > > > > Goodbye Cruel World > > > > > > > > (based on Pink Floyd titles) > > > > > > > > > > > > So Goodbye Blue Sky, > > > > > > > > now pick Any Color You Like > > > > > > > > for I find myself > > > > > > > > On The Run > > > > > > > > with Nobody Home > > > > > > > > and Wish You Were Here > > > > > > > > to share > > > > > > > > the Us Against Them. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But alone, > > > > > > > > I'll Run Like Hell, > > > > > > > > for The Show Must Go On > > > > > > > > Outside The Wall of > > > > > > > > Comfortably Numb. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Time and Money, > > > > > > > > Don't Leave Me Now > > > > > > > > as I walk > > > > > > > > The Thin Ice, shouting > > > > > > > > "Hey You, > > > > > > > > Is There Anybody Out There?" > > > > > > > > or just Empty Spaces > > > > > > > > Waiting For The Worms > > > > > > > > To Speak To Me/Breathe > > > > > > > > the words, > > > > > > > > Bring The Boys Back Home, > > > > > > > > In The Flesh > > > > > > > > rather than > > > > > > > > an Empty Space in the arms > > > > > > > > of a Mother. > > > > There is a name for this poetry form, escapes me at the moment.... > > > > I think G.D. will remember it.... > First word that comes to mind is "cento", but that usually uses lines or parts of lines from poems or songs. There may be a specific name for one that uses only titles, but I don't remember one. > > Since it looks like it fits, here's my Pink Floyd cento, published as "At the Gates of Dawn": > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/alt.arts.poetry.comments/KYCco8cPdmY/UUVJ6Pcz2LMJ "At the Gates of Dawn" evokes early Pink Floyd: https://i.imgur.com/tIiQA9H.png
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