TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 313, 3/28/23

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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.

PART OF Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Tanka.

Love Is In Da Blog.

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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 oboeclarinetcor 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 Minister Harold 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

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Roy Wood

One-Liner Wednesday. Why does it always rain on Glastonbury?

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?

This is part of LindaGHill’s One-Liner Wednesday

Song Lyric Sunday. Rain, rain, rain.

It’s Sunday again and time for Song Lyric Sunday. Our host Jim Adams has given us the prompt. Songs that mention rain.

Jim Adams

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 GlasgowScotland, 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.

Nigel Godrich spliced the best parts of the song together at a session in Abbey Road Studios.

Why does it always rain on me

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

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Francis Healy

Why Does It Always Rain On Me? lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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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.

Now we’ll never dance again.

Oh ah,
Oh ah,
Oh ah,
Oh ah,
Oh ah,
Oh ah,
Oh ah

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Gary Barlow / Howard Paul Donald / Jason Orange / Mark Anthony Owen / Robert Peter Williams

The Flood lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group.

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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

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Annie Lennox / David Allan Stewart

Here Comes the Rain Again lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group.

HAPPY Sunday Everyone 💜💜

The Argument.

Here is  another old  Halloween  poem  this  time  from  2013. I bring it out every year, it’s one of my favourites, so I make no apologies.

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I know that it is  raining,  I can see that it wet

But you are my familiar,  and not a blooming pet!

I have asked you nicely I have even said please

Now go and get me food or I shall infest you with flees.

Excuse me, Lady  Mistress, this does not seem quite right

Just where in my contract does it say I have to work for you at night!

You have run me ragged every minute of today.

I am tired now and my feathers are wet and here in the warm I need to stay.

Pardon me! my fine feathered friend,pardon me my beauty.

I am not requesting, I am demanding that you do your duty.

I am the one in charge not you , I am a tortured soul Vampire.

You do as I bid and don’t argue. Go, go on, What are waiting for. Wet weather attire?

Well Mistress that would not go amiss for I am not a duck,

And if I get lost  you will miss out and that would be such bad luck.

Be Gone! Get out! and find me fresh blood

And if you play your cards right I shall dip you in the stream on your return to remove the mud.girl_gloom_rain_raven_3512_1280x1024

Scream into  the rain

Three Things Challenge #370

Welcome to The Three Things Challenge.
For those of you unfamiliar with the challenge, every day Di at pensitivity101 lists three things that may, or may not, be related.
The challenge is to simply read the prompt and see where your creativity takes you, using one, two or all three words in your post. There are no restrictions regarding length, style, or genre apart from keeping it family friendly.
You can use the 3TC, #threethingschallenge or TTC as a tag and the logo if you wish

Your three things today are:

RAIN
DRIP
PUDDLE

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Plip plop plip plop plip

Rain drops from the broken pipe

Forming a puddle

Like the puddle in my heart

My tears drip like falling rain.

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