Comments on: found: a poem in a playlist

By: Leigh

Leigh — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:12:52 +0000

google reader made changes and i’ve missed a month of your writing! sadness. signed up for the e-mail subscription. in the meantime, it’s like christmas. i have a month’s worth of posts to peruse! don’t know if there’s anything that can be done to fix the google reader glitch.

By: Lyric Poetry | G-lish

Lyric Poetry | G-lish — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:00:55 +0000

[...] This “lyric” poem evolved from a writing exercise in the Sunday School for Sentences series at Kelly Diel’s Blog, Cleavage: “And, in order to write better, for the last two weeks I’ve been asking you to listen and pay close attention to spoken word and song lyrics.” [...]

By: Nikki

Nikki — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:10:31 +0000

I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Heaven’s no longer above
And hellfire’s a promise away

I caught a glimpse
But it’s been forgotten
I love the way you lie
So here we are again

Just gonna stand there
And watch me burn
So let it rain down
And wash everything away

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:49:29 +0000

Who’s that conscience sticking on the sole of my shoe?
Take me, I am an ordinary player in the key of C
And when they say that you’re not good enough
Well the answer is, you’re not
They are handcuffs on the soul, my friends
Handcuffs on the soul, and worse
But where was it when I first heard a sweet sound of humility?
It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody.
It was in a foreign hotel’s bathtub I baptized myself in change.
And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been.
Because you cannot walk with the holy if you’re just a halfway decent man
“Oh my patient prisoner you have waited for this day
and finally you are free! You are free! You are freezing.”
I’ll try to say a little more:
Love went on and on
But there was nothing left between
The Nameless and the Name.
How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery,
to love and to be loved. Let’s just hope that is enough.
And everything about it is a love song
Everything about it
Everything about it is a love song
Everything about it

By: Sunday School For Sentences #5: Why You Should Write Bad Poetry | Cleavage by Kelly Diels.

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:08:56 +0000

[...] for the last two weeks I’ve been asking you to listen and pay close attention to spoken word and song lyrics. The idea was that if you can learn to discern beautiful, raw, emotionally fraught sentences, you [...]

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:00:55 +0000

I’ve been carving you
to see what form you’d take
you were hiding in ivory
I just wanted to free your shape

I’ve heard the sound
That silence makes
And I realize the world
Can break
From the inside out
Or outside in
On a breath of wind

Two of my faves.

By: Elana

Elana — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:14:48 +0000

Great idea! But you already knew that Happy Saturday…I’ll be doing this exercise tonight. I’m in full on mommification mode. Dasvedanya!

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:26:00 +0000

Found writing.

And unfinished business.