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Here is whatColleen’s has given us for this week’s prompt. “This week, share the view outside your window by writing a poem in syllabic form. If you write a freestyle form, please add a syllabic form to your post. Have fun!”
I have decided to write a Shadorma. This is a poetic form consisting of a six-line stanza (or sestet). Each stanza has a syllable count of three syllables in the first line, five syllables in the second line, three syllables in the third and fourth lines, seven syllables in the fifth line, and five syllables in the sixth line (3/5/3/3/7/5) for a total of 26 syllables.
Plip plop plip Not seeming to stop Gentle rain Or hard rain Continuously drip drops Will it ever stop
Spring is here It sure is trying Pushing roots Crocuses And daffodils are sprouting Starbursts of colour
Rain drops on Splatter my window A chill wind Still blows hard Where is the warm spring sunshine I fear it is lost
Under foot Squelching as we walk Water pools Runs down hill Next month brings April showers Hopefully with warmth.
Flip flop swish We’re in the car now Windscreen wet Wiper blades Swipe steadily side to side It’s just like winter.
Hi it’s day 23 of Bee Halton’s Love Is In Da Blog. Todays prompt is Flora and Fauna. I chose The Move’s Flowers in the rain. It’s an amazing song I have a sneaky feeling it’s about drugs but that apart it’s a great song . It also has a lot of history ….
“Flowers in the Rain” is a song by English rock band The Move. The song was released as a single and reached number two in 1967 on the UK Singles Chart, and number four in Ireland.
The song was written by the Move’s guitarist/vocalist Roy Wood. As with many of Wood’s early songs, the basis of “Flowers in the Rain” was a book of fairy tales which Wood authored while at The Moseley College of Art.The distinctive instrumental arrangement, including oboe, clarinet, cor anglais and French horn, was suggested by assistant producer Tony Visconti.
Flowers in the Rain achieved its own place in pop history by being the first record to be played on BBC Radio 1 when the station was launched on 30 September 1967. Played by DJ Tony Blackburn.
In a promotional stunt for the record — typical of the band’s manager Tony Secunda — a postcard was released with a cartoon of a naked then-Prime MinisterHarold Wilson in bed with his secretary Marcia Williams. Wilson sued, and the High Court ordered that all royalties from the song be donated to a charity of Wilson’s choice. This legal arrangement remains in force to this day and is thought to have cost the group millions of pounds over the years. During the single’s chart success, most of the money went to the Spastics Society and Stoke Mandeville Hospital. In the 1990s, The Observer newspaper reported the royalties had exceeded £200,000 and found that The Harold Wilson Charitable Trust had extended the range of beneficiaries to include, among others, the Oxford Operatic Society, Bolton Lads Club and the Jewish National Fund for Israel.
“Flowers in the Rain” is a song by English rock band The Move. The song was released as a single and reached number two in 1967 on the UK Singles Chart, and number four in Ireland. Information Wikipedia
Woke up one morning half asleep With all my blankets in a heap And yellow roses scattered all around The time was still approaching four I couldn’t stand it any more Saw marigolds upon my eider down
I’m just sitting watching flowers in the rain Feel the power of the rain Making the garden grow I’m just sitting watching flowers in the rain Feel the power of the rain Keeping me cool
So I lay upon my side with all the windows open wide Couldn’t pressurise my head from speaking Hoping not to make a sound I pushed my bed into the ground In time to catch the sight that I was seeking
I’m just sitting watching flowers in the rain Feel the power of the rain Making the garden grow I’m just sitting watching flowers in the rain Feel the power of the rain Keeping me cool
If this perfect pleasure has the key Then this is how it has to be If my pillow’s getting wet I don’t see that it matters much to me
I heard the flowers in the breeze Make conversation with the trees Relieved to leave reality behind me With my commitments an a mess My sleep has gone away depressed In a world of fantasy you’ll find me
I’m just sitting watching flowers in the rain Feel the power of the rain Making the garden grow I’m just sitting watching flowers in the rain Feel the power of the rain Keeping me cool
Watching flowers in the rain Flowers in the rain Flowers, flowers in the rain Flowers, flowers in the rain Flowers, flowers in the rain
The sun is out again here and at Glastonbury it’s hot but tomorrow and until the festival finishes and beyond! there is a drop in temperature and 60/70 % chance of rain, no wonder they call it Mudstonbury?
It’s Sunday again and time for Song Lyric Sunday. Our host Jim Adams has given us the prompt. Songs that mention rain.
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Its Sunday again and time for Song Lyric Sunday. Our host Jim Adams has given us the prompt, Songs that mention Rain .
There are so many songs I could of chosen , Adele Bubby Hollie, Brook Benton, Police, Beatles the list goes on… But I went for these three.
1999 was a strange year because it was leading up to the millennium….talk of “The Millennium Bug” All computers were going to crash, traffic lights stop working, planes fall out of sky and the world would never be the same again! ….well it didn’t happen and we all survived.
Our youngest was 16yrs old and the older lads were both left home. Then up popped Travis with this great song which I still sing to myself when I feel low or stressed out !
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“Why Does It Always Rain on Me?” is a song by Scottish band Travis, released as the third single from their second studio album, The Man Who. The song became the group’s international breakthrough single, receiving recognition around the world. It was their first top-ten hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 10 in August 1999. The song also peaked within the top twenty in Australia and achieved moderate success in mainland Europe, North America, Ireland, and New Zealand. In a poll by listeners of Absolute Radio, the song was ranked 62nd on a list of the top 100 songs of the 1990s.
The music video was directed by John Hardwick and filmed in Cornwall, with scenes filmed on Bodmin Moor. The pool of water that Healy (actually a stuntman) jumps into is part of a disused mining quarry known locally as “Gold Diggings” in Craddock Moor which is on the edge of Bodmin Moor. The video features the band in a rain-soaked setting, with the band having locked frontman Healy, wearing a kilt, in the trunk of a 1970s Vauxhall Viva. Healy escapes, and chases the rest of the band into a disused mining quarry. The video continues with the band being shown in a floating living room, performing the song. The video ends with the living room floating away. It does not actually rain at any point during the video.
The underwater scenes were filmed by underwater cinematographer Mark Silk, in the tank at Oceanic SW Limited, Honiton, Devon. (The company went into administration in January 2019). The director of photography of the video was Ben Davis with Derrin Schlesinger the producer.
Fran Healy started writing the song while on holiday in Israel. According to Healy, he wanted to go somewhere sunny in the middle of winter because in his hometown of Glasgow, Scotland, it rained frequently. His accountant suggested the southern vacation city of Eilat, Israel which is known for its hot weather even during winter time. However, on the way to the hotel, it began to rain, which lasted until he left a week later.
Healy said he wanted to write the song, and wrote the second verse starting with “Why does it always rain on you? Is it because I picked you up in ’92?” but decided that it wasn’t good and changed it. He said that the line “Is it because I lied when I was 17?” refers to the time when he lied about his age to get a job behind the bar at the biggest club in Glasgow. The rest of the song was written six months later in Madrid at 1 o’clock in morning. He had just spoken to his manager on the phone who assured him that his career is taking off, but he felt things were not working for him, and wrote the lines “I can’t sleep tonight / Everybody’s saying everything is alright” and “I can’t stand myself” which refers to him hating himself as well as not being able to stand up. “I’m being held up by invisible men” refers to people in the music industry who propped him up as well as holding him up like robbers.
can’t sleep tonight Everybody’s saying everything is alright Still I can’t close my eyes I’m seeing a tunnel at the end of all of these lights Sunny days, where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong
Why does it always rain on me
Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Why does it always rain on me? Even when the sun is shinning I can’t avoid the lightning
I can’t stand myself I’m being held up by invisible men Still life on a shelf when I’ve got my mind on something else Sunny days, oh, where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong
Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Why does it always rain on me? Even when the sun is shinning I can’t avoid the lightning
Oh, where did the blue sky go? Oh why is it raining so? It’s so cold
I can’t sleep tonight Everybody’s saying everything is alright Still I can’t close my eyes I’m seeing a tunnel at the end of all of these lights Sunny days, oh, where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong
Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Why does it always rain on me? Even when the sun is shinning I can’t avoid the lightning
Oh, where did the blue sky go? And why is it raining so? It’s so cold
Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Why does it always rain on me? Even when the sun is shinning I can’t avoid the lightning Why does it always rain on me? Why does it always rain on, on
Now Take That, I love them! They are so talented infact all of them have great voices, and can write songs! I think Gary Barlow once said that when they are all together in one room there is just so much talent !
I have chosen flood from their Progress Tour….that was such a fabulous tour. The opening song was flood , as you can see from the video it was spectacular and Robbie diving off the top of the structure, while the others came down in their lift wel I just love it.
“The Flood” is a song by British pop group Take That from their sixth studio album, Progress (2010). It was released as the lead single in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2010. The song is the first to feature Robbie Williams since his return to the band in July 2010, and features both Williams and Gary Barlow on lead vocals.
THE FLOOD.
Standing, on the edge of forever, At the start of whatever, Shouting love at the world. Back then, we were like cavemen, But we map the moon and the stars, Then we forgave them.
We will meet you where the lights are, The defenders, of the faith we are. Where the thunder turns around They’ll run so hard we’ll tear the ground away.
You know no one dies, In these love drowned eyes, Through our love drowned eyes, We’ll watch you sleep tonight.
Although no one understood We were holding back the flood, Learning how to dance the rain. We were holding back the flood They said we’d never dance again.
Bleeding, but none of us leaving, Watch your mouth son or you’ll find yourself floating home. Here we come now on a dark star, Seeing demons, not what we are.
Tiny minds and eager hands Will try to strike but now will end today.
There’s progress now where there once was none, Where there once was none, then everything came along.
Although no one understood, We were holding back the flood learning how to dance the rain. There was more of them than us now they’ll never dance again.
Although no one understood There was more of them than us learning how to dance the rain, We were holding back the flood they said we’d never dance again.
We will meet you where the lights are, The defenders, of the faith we are. Where the thunder turns around They’ll run so hard we’ll tear the ground away.
Although no one understood, There was more of them than us learning how to dance the rain. (learning how to dance the rain) There was more of them than us now they’ll never dance again.
This was the year that our youngest was born and this was a song the album was released in January 1983 .
“Here Comes the Rain Again” is a 1983 song by British duo Eurythmics and the opening track from their third studio album Touch. It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced by Stewart. The song was released on 12 January 1984 as the album’s third single in the UK and in the United States as the first single. It became Eurythmics’ second Top 10 U.S. hit, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Here Comes the Rain Again” hit number eight in the UK Singles Chart, becoming their fifth consecutive Top 10 single in their home country..
Stewart explained to Songfacts that creating a melancholy mood in his songs is something at which he excels. He said: “‘Here Comes the Rain Again’ is kind of a perfect one where it has a mixture of things, because I’m playing a b-minor, but then I change it to put a b-natural (sic – the song is in A minor) in, and so it kind of feels like that minor is suspended, or major. So it’s kind of a weird course. And of course that starts the whole song, and the whole song was about that undecided thing, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But then it goes, ‘so talk to me like lovers do.’ It’s the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty that sort of is like the rose that’s when it’s darkest unfolding and bloodred just before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments.”[2]
Stewart also said he and Lennox wrote the song while staying at the Mayflower Hotel in New York City. It was an overcast day, and Stewart was playing “melancholy A minor-ish chords with the B note in it” on his Casio keyboard. Lennox came over, looked out the window at the gray skies and the New York skyline, and spontaneously sang, “Here comes the rain again”. The duo worked out the rest of the song based on that mood.
The string arrangements by Michael Kamen were performed by members of the British Philharmonic Orchestra. However, due to the limited space in the studio, the Church, the players had to improvise by recording their parts in other parts of the studio. The song was then mixed by blending the orchestral tracks on top of the original synthesized backing track.
The running time for “Here Comes the Rain Again” is in actuality about five minutes long and was edited on the Touch album (fading out at approximately four-and-a-half minutes). Although it was edited even further for its single and video release, many U.S. radio stations played the full-length version of it.[citation needed] The entire five-minute version did not appear on any Eurythmics album until the U.S. edition of Greatest Hits in 1991.
In the UK, the single became Eurythmics’ fifth Top 10 hit, peaking at #8. It was the duo’s second top ten hit in the United States, peaking at #4 in March 1984.
Here comes the rain again
Here comes the rain again Falling on my head like a memory Falling on my head like a new emotion I want to walk in the open wind I want to talk like lovers do Want to dive into your ocean Is it raining with you?
So, baby, talk to me Like lovers do Walk with me Like lovers do Talk to me Like lovers do
Here comes the rain again Raining in my head like a tragedy Tearing me apart like a new emotion (ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh) I want to breathe in the open wind I want to kiss like lovers do Want to dive into your ocean Is it raining with you?
So, baby, talk to me Like lovers do Walk with me Like lovers do Talk to me Like lovers do
So, baby, talk to me Like lovers do
Ooh Ooh, yeah Here it comes again Ooh-ooh Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Here it comes the rain again Falling on my head like a memory Falling on my head like a new emotion (Here it comes again, here it comes again, oh-ah) I want to walk in the open wind I want to talk like lovers do Want dive into your ocean Is it raining with you?
Ooh, here comes again Here comes the rain again (I said) Falling on my head like a memory Falling on my head like a new emotion (ooh, ooh, yeah) I want to walk in the open wind (ooh, ooh) I want to talk like lovers do I want to dive into your ocean Is it raining with you?
Here comes the rain again Falling on my head like a memory Falling on my head like a new emotion
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