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Post by thisismyengland on Aug 12, 2011 1:52:25 GMT -6
So, the thing here is to think of a favourite album by a singer or band you like and do something with the names of the tracks and/or the lyrics of some or all of the songs. Those are the rough guidelines but you can play around with that general idea as much as you like. If you want, make it abundantly clear which artist/band/album you're playing around with. But, if you prefer, you can an obscurantist like me and make no overt reference to the band/artist or album title. Stick song titles and lyrics into your poem either unchanged or chopped about, reordered or completely reworded. Whatever you feel like.
This is how I made this today:
not supposed to go and see them
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with a pocketful of change
GET steak and black onions,
twinkies, ho-hos, ding-dongs
and
enough dutch courage
to BEAT up beat,
MAKE a mission of coition and,
with trouser minnow,
IGNITE the superpussy
in kim's panties.
LAUGH at budd's hat,
FLEX your single eyebrow for
three minutes and
forty-five seconds,
HATE that chinaman (not a man by law) and
DETECT by radio:
love lizards,
callithrix,
cebuella,
callibella
and mico.
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Post by diannet on Aug 12, 2011 3:19:22 GMT -6
Well Time I can say I have no idea very obscurantist... mine won't be so obscure...but a great challenge...here is mine
On Your Planet
Twinkle
Beauty queen
Before father Lucifer
Way down in the depths
Where the sneeze was caught
And Muhammad my friend
Played in the springtime of my voodoo
With Mr Zebra
While Marianne rode horses through the blood roses
To Amsterdam where Talula
Found agent orange
Putting the damage on
For you are the professional widow
And if not for the Red Baron
I would live...hey Jupiter
Singing the doughnut song
On your planet
With the boys for Pele
Like a little masochist
Just lifting up her dress.
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Post by thisismyengland on Aug 12, 2011 5:28:22 GMT -6
I don't know what your album was... but I like the end product. I thought of this 'cos I was trying to write a short story that had song lyrics (from the period in which it's meant to be set) woven into the prose. I may yet finish that, but I could see immediately that a poem was going to be way, way easier. I may well do a few more of these.
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Post by diannet on Aug 12, 2011 13:14:15 GMT -6
This was a great excercise on many levels... a short story would be interesting.
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Post by Brigid Briton on Aug 15, 2011 8:24:23 GMT -6
Hi time & Dianne, Well, this is a very challenging challenge indeed. So much so, that I'm still mulling it over. I don't have a clue what artist or group either of you used as a basis for you poems. time: I'm grateful to you for introducing me to a new word, "obscurantist". At first, I thought that you had coined it and was going to congratulate you on that, but now I'll have to settle for congratulating you on being one!  Dianne, I admire the way you jumped right into this challenge and came up with something almost obscure, at least to me, as "time's" entry. I'll see you two later, I've got to work on my entry for this challenge.  |
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Post by Brigid Briton on Aug 15, 2011 13:15:12 GMT -6
OK, here's my entry. I think it'll be pretty easy, since I didn't make any attempt to be obscure in any way. One small hint, there's more than one album involved here, but just one artist. Just one more thing, no fair Googling! Meet me underground, down, down, down, beneath this town without cheer, where everything goes to hell. Back in the neighborhood, no one knows I’m gone, but I’m saving all my love for you, down here in the cold, cold ground. |
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Post by diannet on Aug 15, 2011 17:18:27 GMT -6
Is it Whitney Houston Brigid??? Saving all my love thats what I am thinking...TIME,a pocketful of change rings a bell but still not sure and my hubby couldn't get it and he's a rock aficionado (well punk ) and I am so surprised that no one knows mine...I felt sure it would be easy! I used one album and re-arranged the song titles, with the album name and added two lines of the lyrics...should I say or no....  |
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Post by Brigid Briton on Aug 15, 2011 20:05:38 GMT -6
No, Dianne, don't tell yet! Let's see if someone else can guess who your artist is. As for mine, no it's not Whitney Houston. Another clue is that there are a total of eight song titles in my poem. Anybody got any ideas? How about an entry in the challenge? |
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