Write It to the Tune of ... Poetry Contest

[YesNo]

I found a harp duet cover for this song by Camille and Kennerly that I like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvI5oy25QO4

Now to think up some lyrics.

[YesNo]

The lotus closes up at night
Awaiting dawn with a better light.
Nothing’s better until it’s bright
And that’s what we’re here for.

When you told me that time goodbye,
I wondered when and I wondered why
Some must stay while some others fly
If that’s what we’re here for.

In the night there is time to dream
When reality will not seem
Like a light that forgot to beam.
Is that what we’re here for?

I never said that you should go.
I always thought there’d be a way.
Don’t you know?

The lotus closes up at night
Awaiting dawn with a better light.
Nothing’s better until it’s bright
And that’s what we’re here for.

[Pendragon]

Living life and going fast
How quickly all the moments pass
A freeway between life and death
Isn't that what we're here for?

Chasing every single dream
Charging down the road full steam
Nothing is quite what it seems
But that's what we're here for!

Sometimes friends hang around
Sometimes up and sometimes down
Silence is a dreadful sound
God, is that what we're here for?

No one ever said life was easy
A walk in the park
Sorrow just makes me queasy

Living life and going fast
How quickly all the moments pass
A freeway between life and death
Isn't that what we're here for?

Pendragon
(C) Tuesday, August 12, 2014

[tailor STATELY]

2-entries... any other takers ? Deadline 8/19/2014

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed both interpretations.

My favorite lines from YesNo:
"The lotus closes up at night
Awaiting dawn with a better light."

My favorite lines from Pendragon:
"Charging down the road full steam
Nothing is quite what it seems"

The deciding factor for my decision comes with the differences in the structure of S4................... the winner: YesNo... Congratulations !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Pendragon]

Congrats, YesNo, and thanks Tailor for kind comments!

[YesNo]

Thanks you, tailor STATELY and Pendragon.

The next song will be "Greensleeves".

Deadline: September 15th.

[ZacheirII]

Is this thread submission still open, Please?
Thanks,
(Z)

[ZacheirII]

Here is what I could scribe

...when the Westerner arrived
the seas brewed in filter
the tillage bore fecund to barren
the mills on the mend to heed windy
the Civil had wound affable 'round our Preferred
Valleys descend in tolls they Hades
When Heaven descend...

...the Hanker after fauna began
lechery bestowed gracefully
Maidens merit in effleurage
saturated (their) sanity with opulence
only in time would greed revere, tactile sense detest
Lust marooned median in the Boulevard
and into Hell (they) descend

Babylon's den our beach became
Myriad umpteen must a villain accrue
that He might plunder his own proportion
diurnal demise cast up before Kinfolks start to drown
Nineteenth hole swallow (our) existence
to a descent where Nothing Else Matters

(Z)

[YesNo]

Yes, ZacheirII, the contest has just begun. Thank you for your entry and welcome!

[YesNo]

This contest is still open. I will give it one more week until the end of September.

[Hawkman]

Sometimes I actually miss the Sixties. In the Sixties there was a counter culture that voiced protest. It felt like every song on the radio was protest song. Look at the world today... It's not as if there's nothing to protest about, but where are the protest songs? Rap just doesn't cut it. It's a minority single-issue genre. Take a look at the world guys. Take a look at what's going on, what's being done every day. Say something!

There’s too much happenin’ here
The reasons aren’t exactly clear
There’s a guy with a saw over there
He’s cutting heads off while I stare

I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound?
Those’re bombs exploding on the ground

There’s battles fought in the east
A teddy bear’s becoming a beast
Some people annexin’ land
It’s really much too much, it’s out of hand

Time they stop. Hey, what’s that sound?
Only an airbus; shoot it down

Somebody’s fighting for hate
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
Don’t want to live in a caliphate
(Hmm. Hmm, hmm)
Chant slogans for a positive war
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
We’re indoctrinated to the core
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)

It’s time we stop. Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look! Boots on the ground!

So what if there ain’t no jobs?
Stop the dole, there’s still dosh for the knobs
Keep the proles in a state of fear
Can’t pay the rent? Then you’re out on your ear

We better stop. Hey what’s that sound?
Ain’t a protest song that’s going down

We better stop. Hey, what’s that sound?
Those’re bombs exploding on the ground

We better stop. Hey what’s that sound?
Only an airbus; shoot it down

We better stop, children, what’s that sound?
Everybody look! Boots on the ground

[YesNo]

Thank you for both for the entries! I just realized this contest should be over by now, so here's the verdict:

ZacheirII: I enjoyed the "descent" idea at the end of the three stanzas.

Hawkman: I don't want to live under a caliphate either unless it provides civil liberties. I remember that song as well.

Well, neither of these sounded like they could fit into the melody of Greensleeves, which is OK. Now to choose:

The winner is Hawkman! Congratulations!

[Hawkman]

Greensleeves? Ooops! I think I may have posted this in the wrong thread! Didn't Auntie have a similar one a while back? No matter, at least you got to judge, Y/N Well done for playing Zacheir II.

OK. So let's stick with protest songs. I want everyone to get worked up and complain. Protest, guys! You can choose your own protest song from the 60s but you must identify it with a link to a youTube clip so we can tell which one it's supposed to be You gotta protest about something rotten in the modern world, so make it a relevant update of an old favourite. The winner will be required to sing it, so make sure you get the phrasing right You've got until midnight GMT on 30th October.

Looking forward to reading your entries...

LLAP - H

PS you get extra brownie points if it's funny...

[Pendragon]

How many ways can a dollar be taxed, it's now worth about thirty cents?
How many years can a person be vexed, before they go postal and lose all their sense?
And how many lies must one swallow in life, before hurling becomes a defense?
Take your money my friend, and throw it to the wind, at least will float in the wind...

How many years must the middle class chaff, under the excess of the one percent?
They spent four million dollars on Fabergé eggs, and Hell I can't even pay my rent!
How long can we put up with these pigs, before the French guillotine makes perfect sense?
Burn them my friend, throw their ashes in the wind, they'll blow away in the end!

How much traffic can bottleneck the road, when I really need to make an event?
Flipping off guys who are cutting the line, and just end up making a mess?
We're backed up for miles and the cop on the shoulder, still is running his speed trap I guess
Take your petrol my friend and burn it in the wind, it makes such dark smoke in the wind

Pendragon
C) October 10, 2014