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Jun 19 16, 01:22
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Ornate Oracle
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Greetings to all poets and writers!
A NEW challenge, this time featuring the titles of well-known songs!!
You may reply with any form, sonnets, villanelles, ballades, it's your choice! Free Verse and short stories are very welcome.
There are 14 titles below to chose from. You may use them in any order, so long as you don't change them. (Of course you don't have to capitalize as shown in the list)
You're challenged to use 8 of the titles, but if you can fit in more, or the whole 14, that's wonderful!
Here goes: The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
Suzanne (Leonard Cohen)
High Noon (Frankie Laine)
Return to Sender (Elvis Presley)
Time to say Goodbye (Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli)
The Great Pretender (The Platters)
The Sound of Music (Julie Andrews)
Earth Song (Michael Jackson)
We are the Champions (Queen, Freddie Mercury)
Strawberrey Fields Forever (The Beatles)
I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
The Music of the Night (Michael Crawford, The Phantom of the Opera)
Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Elvis Presley)
My Way (Frank Sinatra) All the songs can be found on Utube, if you wish to get inspired!! There are several versions by other famous singers, but they can't all be featured here.
Good luck to all!
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Mis temas favoritos The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
"There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction."
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Jun 19 16, 02:07
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Ornate Oracle
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Real Name: Sylvia Evelyn Maclagan
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Poets are invited to make suggestions for future challenges.
Just drop a line in this forum with your ideas, and we'll set up the formal invitation.
Bye, Syl
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Mis temas favoritos The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
"There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction."
Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, Wuthering Heights. Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!MM Award Winner
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Jun 20 16, 12:50
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From: Springfield, Louisiana
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Real Name: Larry D. Jennings
Writer of: Poetry & Prose
Referred By:Just wondered in.
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Man, The Great Pretender
I will survive the music of the night for at high noon the sound of silence reigns and though it’s time to say goodbye, my plight is knowing that the sound of music’s strains
will vibrate with the earth songs. Its demise, caused by tectonic plates that tore apart, when nations of the world tried to surprise each other with their bombs. The planet’s heart
and mountains now return to sender’s blast; for though we are the champions of lust, mushrooms bridge over troubled waters; cast a pall across my way of deadly dust.
Gone are my sweet Suzanne’s strawberry fields; forever with pretense that each war yields.
Songs used: The Great Pretender, I Will Survive, The Music of the Night, High Noon, The Sound of Silence, Time to say Goodbye, The Sound of Music, Earth Song, Return to Sender, We are the Champions, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, My Way, Suzanne, Strawberry Fields Forever
p.s. Syl, Bridge Over Troubled Waters was originally composed, recorded and sung by Simon and Garfunkel in January, 1970 and was their best ever single plus it received a Grammy for Record of the Year and another for Song of the Year. Elvis, Aretha and other artists released it later but theirs never attained the level of worldwide greatness seen by the original.
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Jun 26 16, 02:20
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Ornate Oracle
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Real Name: Sylvia Evelyn Maclagan
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Oh my, Larry, you've used the 14 song titles!
Not only that, you've deftly fitted them into what I'd call a protest poem.
So true. There are some hard truths woven into your sonnet.
Excellent title, gives one a hint of what's coming. Stunning.
QUOTE (Larry @ Jun 20 16, 14:50 ) Man, The Great Pretender
I will survive the music of the night for at high noon the sound of silence reigns and though it’s time to say goodbye, my plight is knowing that the sound of music’s strains will vibrate with the earth songs. Its demise, caused by tectonic plates that tore apart, when nations of the world tried to surprise each other with their bombs. The planet’s heart The above stanza linked to the one below is perfect. It's really what's happening in our cruel world. Not long ago, after hearing about still another catastrophe, it suddenly occurred to me that maybe Revelations (or Apocalypse) is not as far away as we imagine. It struck me that even though I'm not at all young, I might actually be around when it happens. It was like a sudden illumination...
Jesus says to be always ready, there will be no warning. Unless you've read the signs, as you've expressed so well in your sonnet.and mountains now return to sender’s blast; for though we are the champions of lust, mushrooms bridge over troubled waters; cast a pall across my way of deadly dust. Gone are my sweet Suzanne’s strawberry fields; forever with pretense that each war yields. Amazing work, Larry.
Syl Songs used: The Great Pretender, I Will Survive, The Music of the Night, High Noon, The Sound of Silence, Time to say Goodbye, The Sound of Music, Earth Song, Return to Sender, We are the Champions, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, My Way, Suzanne, Strawberry Fields Foreverp.s. Syl, Bridge Over Troubled Waters was originally composed, recorded and sung by Simon and Garfunkel in January, 1970 and was their best ever single plus it received a Grammy for Record of the Year and another for Song of the Year. Elvis, Aretha and other artists released it later but theirs never attained the level of worldwide greatness seen by the original. Thanks for telling me that, Larry. It's a lovely song. So is The Sound of Silence, which was one of the background songs used in the movie The Graduate. Wonderful composers. And good movie.
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Mis temas favoritos The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
"There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction."
Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, Wuthering Heights. Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!MM Award Winner
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Jun 27 16, 02:24
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Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr.
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I'm Left
The sound of music says that it is time to say goodbye. I will survive; my way is to the great pretender be and climb into the light until high noon and play
Strawberry Fields Forever, though I hear the music of the night and feel the sound of silence. Why'd Suzanne return to send 'er shatt'ring earth song, leaving me aground?
There's no bridge over troubled waters now because she blew it up before she left. She didn't even leave me with a plow to scratch my fallow ground. I am bereft
of strength, but I will live another day; you see, we are the champions of display.
Song titles used, in order: The Sound of Music Time to say Goodbye I Will Survive My Way The Great Pretender High Noon Strawberry Fields Forever The Music of the Night The Sound of Silence Suzanne Return to Sender Earth Song Bridge Over Troubled Waters We are the Champions
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Jun 27 16, 22:20
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Real Name: Larry D. Jennings
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Bravo Daniel,
A great use of all 14 song titles with a nice sonnet to boot. I am so glad someone else answered the challenge because I have, for the most part been doing it alone. Don't get me wrong. I have always enjoyed a challenge and sometimes the old muse needs a kick in the behind to get it started.
Enjoyed every innuendo and word play you created.
Thanks, Larry
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Jun 28 16, 16:42
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Ornate Oracle
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And another Bravo!!!! from me, Daniel. So glad you took up the challenge in your own great style, using the sonnet form that you so deftly manage. Kudos to you, hope you continue to be so wonderfully inspired.
And as I've said before, if you have any ideas for new challenges, do post them in this forum. Members have almost abandoned ship. Eira and myself are the only staff around, and she's been having the flu' and lost her energy. But she'll be back soon.
We need more staff, I don't know why Lori doesn't come and discuss the issue with us. I only see her now and then on Facebook, but I don't visit often, no time!!
There's no bridge over troubled waters now because she blew it up before she left. She didn't even leave me with a plow to scratch my fallow ground. I am bereft
of strength, but I will live another day; you see, we are the champions of display.
Love these final stanzas, Daniel. Sad but true. And the writer of We are the Champions was Freddie Mercury, who was certainly a champion of display...LOL.
It's sung at many sports events to this day, something I don't believe he ever imagined. Maybe not in the USA, where he didn't gain all that popularity due to his being bisexual...very bad in those days, where even Elvis was not allowed to move his hips when he sang in small towns.
OK, love what you two poets are doing! I'm thinking of a Pandora challenge, the reason I'm delayed is that my desktop crashed and I need to buy a new one. Using an old laptop...not my preference at all.
Syl
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Mis temas favoritos The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
"There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction."
Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, Wuthering Heights. Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!MM Award Winner
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