Interestingly, the nineteenth entry into my song-inspired poem series (this one!) was inspired both by ‘Lust For Life’ by Iggy Pop, which I’ve embedded below, and also another poem from this series. I’d consider this poem to be something of a ‘sister poem’ to Paper Memories, which was, in turn, inspired by ‘Mess’ by Real Friends. Both of them have memories and remembrance at the core, but I think they explore that theme in slightly different ways, while still being quite complementary to each other, especially towards the end of this one. In any case, I hope you enjoy this one!
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Ghost Words Chasing Their Own Tails
Although my song-inspired poem series has been on hold for a few weeks (sorry – it was my birthday, and then I had a lot of beta reading/proofreading work to sort out afterwards!) I’ve got another poem in the series for you this week. This one is inspired by ‘Paint Me Red’ by Avatar, and takes a slightly more meta approach than some of the other poems in their inspiration, but I hope you enjoy it nevertheless!
Where Do You Go?
Unlike the last two weeks, this poem is star-free – but hopefully you’ll still enjoy it anyway! This one was inspired by ‘BCKYRD’ by Hot Mulligan, and, oddly, reminded me somewhat of the fantasy poem series I was doing – not in terms of the content, but more the tone that the speaker of those poems uses.
Nothing Stays The Same
Somehow, between this week and last week, I’ve managed to stay on the theme of ‘poems about stars’ despite writing two poems that feel almost completely different, at least to me. In any case, this week’s poem is the thirteenth entry into my song-inspired poem series, and it was inspired by ‘Notes’ by Modern Baseball – which is embedded below!
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!
Oskar Leonard 