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Re: Philosophical songs

#733518
From: Will Dockery
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: 
> 
> > > > > Life’s 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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