Writing to Music

[Fire Monkey]

I was think about some of the comments on the poem I wrote a short while back which was written to a piece of music I had composed and I thought that it might be fun to challenge people to try writing poems to music so I'm posting a link to a new piece I did and I'm challenging people to listen and try and write a poem to go with the music. This is a percussion based piece, that is to say, I started with percussion and built that up then added a base line and a bit of melody to it, which means that it mainly has rhythm so it should be easy to write to

The song is called Elemental

[Brigid Briton]

OK, Tim. I wrote a poem inspired by your music. I don't know that it necessarily goes with the music as a song, but it's what your music brought out of me.

Relentless rain
forty days and forty nights
feels like forty years
of tears.

Thunder and lightning punctuate
the sentences of the storm
feels like forty years
of tears.

Pouring from the heavens
as if God’s heart were breaking
feels like forty years
of tears.

This is a neat challenge. I hope others will participate.

Brigid

[Fire Monkey]

That's excellent I think it fits well with the music. I believe the music has a range of possibility to it and you have certainly captured a part of that range so for me, it's quite interesting to see how your creativity interprets the music and finds expression in it. I like the poem, it delivers a strong statement that conveys a mood and thought well.

[Brigid Briton]

Hi Tim,

I think this is a great challenge. It was fun listening to your music as I wrote. My words seemed a bit down-tempo for your tune, but they were the only words that came to me at the time.

[Fire Monkey]

I think they fit - I believe the music has the potential to work with a wide range of moods.

[eiken]

Tim,
I am not writing at the moment but interestingly I wrote about rain too.......here is my spontaneous write, short and sweet. I found the music flowed....

Summer twilight
in the milling rain,
I watch the growing darkness,
clouds bulging with thunder
as sheets spill on slate rooftops,
rush along the rafters
swirl down drainpipes
swelling parched tree roots.
It trickles a barren stream
undulates deep beneath the valley
skirting wide green fields
of the nearby farm,
filling the dusty horse trough
with a torrent of sparkles.

7 July 2014

[Fire Monkey]

I like it, a nice feel - both the power of a summer storm and the refreshing that it brings.