Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Playlist Poem


I've used this prompt with my poetry club and (full disclosure) I got this from a great website but I didn't save the name. Anyway, this is how to create a "playlist poem"

1. Pull up your playlist
2. Put on shuffle
3. Take first five titles and use word-for-word in your poem
4. Order of the titles doesn't matter

EXAMPLE:
My I-pod pulled up these five songs:
Nobody Home
Whiskey Lullabye
A Change Would Do You Good
Not Myself
Early in the Morning

Nobody home at my house
The floor is creaking,
Wind blowing
Each curtain flap makes me wince
Thinking it might be you.

I comfort myself with a whiskey lullabye,
Liquid gold going down hot and rough
Like your hands on me
Like your eyes on me
Wishing it was you.

My mama says,
A change would do you good,
But why would I want change
When I love loving you so much.
Though you’re not here to love.

The smell of you in the house
The print of your head on the pillow
The remembered touch of your flesh
On my flesh. I wish it was
Just not myself.

Early in the morning,
I wake and look and there
You are—smiling from the pillow
Next to me and our smiles
Join to form a new love.

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