Today’s prompt: take any random song playlist (from your iPod, CD player, favorite radio station, Pandora or Spotify, etc.) and use the next five song titles on that randomized list in a poem.
Life
Dear Tuesday…
Dear Tuesday,
I swear, you had me fooled. I kept thinking you were Wednesday. Next time, don’t be afraid to be yourself…
Love,
Kevin
(8 April 2014)
Plundering the Archives #5
This track, ‘Refraction grid’, is one of my favorite pieces. It has a shimmering, luminous quality that remains constant through the various shifts from light to dark/heavy; it’s relatively simple; and it’s relatively short.
In addition to appearing as part of the Veiled Faces, Moving Shadows cassette, it was the first track on the Unit Circle compilation Nocturne Concrète. I’ve had my music appear on three compilation CDs (the other two were Mind/Body 3 and the Doppler Effect compilation Resurgence); Nocturne Concrète is still my favorite. Even though it covers a fairly wide swath—including ambient, experimental, noise, goth—it has the best overall track listing. Plus the artists got to design their own pages in the accompanying booklet; I got one of the color pages. And some of the connections I made as a result of that compilation are still in place today. As Martin Mull once said (on his album I’m Everyone I’ve Ever Loved, “Aren’t records a wonderful way of meeting people? I certainly think so—and that’s why I do them.” Okay, that wasn’t why I made recordings, but records can be a wonderful way of meeting people…
(8 April 2014)
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #8 (April 8, 2014)
Today’s prompt: was to re-write a famous poem, ‘giving it our own spin.’ Not being particularly familiar with ‘famous’ poetry—I rarely read poetry, actually—I gravitated towards song lyrics, selecting David Sylvian’s lyrics to the song ‘Ghosts’, from Japan’s Tin Drum album. But then I decided that I really couldn’t do that to David Sylvian, so I looked for a few other prompts. I went with one of LitBridge’s Creative Writing Prompts for Poetry—number nine, to be specific:
Find an unpublished poem that you haven’t looked at in years. Randomly choose three lines from the poem. Write a completely different [poem] using those lines.
Dear Monday…
Dear Monday,
Well… That’s all. Just…well…
Love,
Kevin
(7 April 2014)
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #7 (April 7, 2014)
Today’s prompt: I didn’t like today’s prompt. Actually, I didn’t like any of the prompts I encountered today, until I got to the Writer’s Digest site, and the prompt for Day 7 of their PAD Challenge: write a self-portrait poem.
Dear Sunday…
Dear Sunday,
Sleepy day today. Sleepy…
Love,
Kevin
(6 April 2014)
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #6 (April 6, 2014)
Today’s prompt: I didn’t like today’s prompt, so I went in search of another one. I decided to go with the sixth prompt listed in Kelli Russell Agodon’s 30 Writing Prompts for National Poetry Month: Write a poem in two sections about two completely different things. Have the title link both items in a surprising way.
Dear Saturday…
Dear Saturday,
Did it really have to be this way, Saturday? Did it?
Love,
Kevin
(5 April 2014)
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #5 (April 5, 2014)
Today’s prompt: write a ‘golden shovel’…The last word of each line from [Terrance] Hayes’ poem [The Golden Shovel] is a word from Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem We Real Cool.
