Congratulations to Ronovanwrites this week’s prompt see a five year anniversary. ππππΎπ₯πππ
Ripples on water
Born from the wind, ranging out
Like a child skims stones.
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15 Jul 2019 8 Comments
in Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Ripple, Ripples, Ronovanwrites, Weekly Haiku Challenge, wind
Congratulations to Ronovanwrites this week’s prompt see a five year anniversary. ππππΎπ₯πππ
Ripples on water
Born from the wind, ranging out
Like a child skims stones.
*******
15 Jul 2019 11 Comments
in Music, Poems, songs Tags: Borrow The Lyrics Challenge, death, Ribbons, War
I was very interested to receive this challenge from Jim Adams. (You can read his entry here)
Here are the Rules.
1: You need to choose a verse from a song and use it in an original poem or story.
2: You must include the name of the song and the singer at the end or beginning.
3: You need to challenge someone else and invent ONE rule they need to follow.
4 You must credit the person who started this challenge (a.k.a. PJ β Iβm sorry for the inconvenience) and the person who challenged you, which was Jim Adams.
Thank you for the challenge Jim and your new rule that the song I use must contain the word ribbon in it.
So here goes. I did not want to use the obvious, Scarlett Ribbons, because I really do not like that song.
So I have gone for the song Ribbons by the group, The Good the Bad and the Queen.
The Good, the Bad & the Queen, comprising Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong and Tony Allen Their first album The Good the Bad and the Queen debuted at number two in the UK Albums Chart and was certified Gold in the UK within days of its release despite little media recognition and airplay. In the United States, the album entered the Billboard 200 at No. 49. In October 2018, it was confirmed that the band’s official name is The Good, the Bad & the Queen after they announced their second album, Merrie Land. It is from this second Album that I have chosen the track, composed by Damon Albarn, Tony Allen, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong and Tony Visconti.
The lyrics are in the video.
Ribbons of War.
Out of the blue
Come the arrows that kill me and you.
Dance round the maypole while you can
Wear your coloured ribbons pray for your man.
The king’s men are fighting below the hill
Wearing their colours as the enemy’s blood they spill.
Dance in the morning feel the warmth of life
You’ll be wearing black ribbons by dark tonight.
The Queen in the castle the King on the hill
It’s the peasants of the fields the ribbons and arrows will kill.
Horses and maypoles carry ribbons blue, red, white green and black.
Flowers will bloom, in glorious dawn
Planted for the dead by those left to mourn.
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So there is my little anti war poem about Ribbons. I think I may of stretch the rules by using more than one verse but I do love the lyrics of the song.
Now I nominate Fandango this, that and the other. My extra rule that the song must have the word home in its title or lyrics.
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