For some reason, I feel like this week’s poem has a slightly different vibe to it, for lack of a better word, compared to some of the other poems in this series. It started with a rather vague concept that became more defined as I worked on it, and I hope that comes through when you read it – and that you enjoy it, of course!
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Simulated Greatness
This is the twenty-sixth entry in my series of song-inspired poems! With this one, a couple of lines of inspiration came together (including this week’s song, ‘Do Ya Wanna Taste It’ by Wig Wam, of course) and I’m pretty proud of what I ended up with, so I hope you enjoy reading it!
Inescapable Endings
We’ve made it to the twenty-fifth entry in my song-inspired poem series! This one is, I suppose, a sort of fairy tale subversion – but, I can’t lie, as well as the song that inspired it (‘The One’ by Elena Siegman and Kevin Sherwood), I did have Shrek at the forefront of my mind while writing it. Although, as you’ll see, it does take a somewhat darker turn by the end of the poem. In any case, I hope you enjoy reading this one!
Create Your Peace
I feel like this week’s poem has a bit of a slower pace to it, but it follows in the footsteps of the past few weeks’ poems, which have flittered quite closely around the topic of memories and, in a sense, the creation of a personal history, which is something I’ve written about semi-regularly, so it’s nice to be on familiar ground for a while. This week’s poem was inspired by ‘Way to Fall’ by Starsailor, and I hope you enjoy it!
In The Corner Of A Nightmare
This week’s poem didn’t end up quite going in the direction that I thought it would, but nevertheless, I quite enjoyed writing this one. It veered straight into the world of dreams, daydreams and nightmares, and was inspired by ‘My Own Worst Enemy’ by Lit – as with all of the other poems in this series, the song is embedded below if you’d like to listen to it, and you can check out the first and previous poems in this series with the links below!
Paper Memories
As you might be able to guess from the title, this week’s poem is quite centred around the theme of memories, and more specifically those memories that we keep through actually writing things down–and the state that those memories might end up in after some time has passed. It was inspired by ‘Mess’ by Real Friends and is the ninth entry into this song-inspired poems series that I’m doing, and the links for both the first poem in this series and the previous one (coincidentally both inspired by Tears For Fears songs!) are below. I hope you enjoy this poem!
This Is For You
This week’s entry into my song-inspired poem series was inspired by another Tears For Fears song (just like the very first poem in this series, which there is a link to below!): ‘Head Over Heels’. Definitely a completely different mood than last week’s poem, but I hope you enjoy this one!
Retribution By Moonlight
This week I’ve got another song-inspired poem for you to continue the series, and this one was written with ‘She-Wolf’ by Megadeth in mind. I think it’s a nice mix of a bit of fantasy like last week and the more supernatural side of my writing (similar to Twisted Bloodlines), so I hope you enjoy this one!
Where The Gods And Rats Watch
Interestingly, this week’s poem had me thinking back to the fantasy poems I was writing for the blog a little bit ago, because I got into that similar sort of fantasy headspace for this one, which was inspired by ‘115’ by Elena Siegman and Kevin Sherwood (from the Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies soundtrack). As with the other poems, I’ve embedded the song below so you can listen while you read if you’d like to, and I hope you enjoy this one!
Teenage Odyssey
This week, I’ve got another entry in my song-inspired series of poems! This one was inspired by ‘Wind Me Up’ by Extreme, which I’ve included below so you can have a listen while you read, if you like!
Oskar Leonard 