Fun Friday–Playlist First-Lines Poem
Rules: Using your iPod, your MP3 player, your iTunes, your Windows Media Player, (set on Shuffle/Random) or Pandora.com or AccuRadio.com, create a “free-form poem” by writing down the first line of a song, then skipping to the next song. Try at least 20 and see what you come up with.
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I feel the sudden urge to sing:
More than the greatest love the world has known.
If you’re ever in a jam, here I am—
I can’t give you anything but love, baby.
It’s the wrong time, and the wrong place—
In the still of the night, as I gaze from my window—
Dance, ballerina, dance . . .
I’d cry like a baby if you told me good-bye.
You’re the fly in my ointment.
I walk along the street of sorrow;
Every time we say good-bye, I die a little.
Life’s great, life’s grand.
I know that someday, you’ll want me to want you—
Saturday night is the loneliest night of the week.
I’m back in the saddle again . . .
Cuddle up a little closer, oh, lovey mine.
Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle;
The moon belongs to everyone.
It looks like love; it feels like love—
The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly.
Do you recall that night in June when first we met?
I was just another who laughed at romance.
Where stately oaks and broad magnolias shade inspiring halls,
Just in time, I found you just in time.
Heart and soul, I fell in love with you
Way down upon the Swanee River
In Napoli beside the sea, it happened on a night like this.
Return to me.
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Now it’s your turn. Share your poem here or post it to your blog and come back to post the link. Your comment today will count toward the drawing for the Sheaf House books gift pack!
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KayeDacus.com 
I’m off to do this right now! 🙂 You should put up a McLinky so we can all go around and visit each other today…
I don’t know if I should be giddy or scared to see what emerges…
Love yours!
Here’s a link to mine:
http://www.noordinarymomentsblog.com/2009/08/on-my-itouch-fun-friday-poem.html
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Here’s the link to mine! This was fun!
http://steelergirl83.blogspot.com/2009/08/fun-fridaysong-lyric-poem.html
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Fun idea, though I’m twentieth-century enough that I still have most of my music on CD, so this would be more trouble than its worth:) Someday I’ll get with the program, just not today. I need to be in WWII mode today if I’m going to get any writing done.
Speaking of writing, were you serious that we should comment if your word count meter hasn’t gone up in a few days? Get some words going, even if you have to delete most of them later:)
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I’m with Emilie – Get crackin’ on that sequel!! 🙂 Your anxious fans await!
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Okay, when I have a few free minutes I have to try this, cause that’s kind of cute 😀 And do you want to just send my the second novel in the Ransome Series now 😀 Seriously I don’t know how I’m going to wait!!!! 😀 😀
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Yes, please keep writing the next Ransome book. We are all longing for some great, normal, page-turner, Christian fiction.
I must say that I don’t own an i-pod, mp3 player, or anything like that. I hardly ever listen to music, but when I do it’s mostly classical (no words) or gospel. I hardly have any regular secular singing CD’s, except The Scarlet Pimpernel broadway.
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This reminds me of when I took my favorite sentence from every poem in Psalm 119 to make one huge… I don’t know what you would call it, but it was interesting. Okay, here’s mine:
I feel the sun it’s returned again to chase the cold far away
I waited for You today
I come on my knees and lay down before You bringing all that I am
Oh for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer’s praise
Remember when I was young so were you
There’s always a better way
Wonderful so wonderful is Your unfailing love
Who am I that the Lord of all the earth would care to know my name
would care to feel my hurt?
I never liked the rain till I walked through it with you
I catalog these steps now
I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses
I’ve been here grounded for too long
The dawn is breaking a light shining through
There are days when I feel the best of me is ready to begin
Well I went down to the Grundy County Auction
Let’s go back, back to the beginning
In the darkest hour I must face
We call upon Your name
Take a look at the mountain stretching a mile high
I have a shelter in the storm when troubles pour upon me
I long for Your embrace every single day to meet You in this place.
And that is that.
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Ok – the Grundy County auction line just made me laugh out loud – so serious up until then! 🙂
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No kidding! I thought she was writing down the first lines of the Psalm that she was referring to from a different translation than I was used to hearing. I realized that it certainly wasn’t a Psalm when I read the Grundy County auction line!
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Kaye, this was SO MUCH fun!! I’ve been laughing so hard, tears are rolling down my face! Thank you for such a fun time! LOL
Here’s my link: http://sugarandgrits.blogspot.com/2009/08/fun-fridaysong-lyric-poem.html
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