Poetry Challenge “Favorite (or least favorite) Things”
A Bookstains Challenge
This poetry challenge is based upon a poem (well a bit of tomfoolery) that Lynda for Bookstains/Echostains wrote ages ago and forgot about. But the idea for the challenge was inspired by Jesssica’s Japes wonderful poem “My Least Favorite things.”
“The challenge is simple – just write a poem to the tune/rhythm of the song from ‘The Sound of Music’ inspired by your favorite or least favorite things. To start you off, here’s the first bit of the Julie Andrews version. In case you don’t know how it goes – here it is on video.”
My Favorite Things Sounds Like Life
Imagine an author rejected by agents
Piles of manuscripts rot in the basement
Trying to capture what’s lost through no means
Sounds like life music through lines that he dreams
Expressing emotions through vectors and color
Writing too much ’cause he can’t find a lover
Many see Jesus as resurrecting
Sounds like life music through lines that he dreams
Breakdowns through trauma; forever seems fleeting
Bombardment of images won’t equal feeling
Being original is poetry
Sounds like life music through lines that he dreams
And when the avalanche comes down
As our carnival leaves town
We still search for a reason through time…
Exhaling sad sorrow
Don’t cry for tomorrow
Sing onto death
Sounds like life
(repeat ad nauseam)
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