This is the thirty-first entry in my song-inspired series of poems! We’re revisiting the topic of memory this week (seems fitting), with a poem inspired by the song ‘Garamond’ by Arm’s Length, which I hope that you enjoy!
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The End Of The Cycle
We’ve made it to the thirtieth entry in this series of song-inspired poems! That definitely feels like an achievement, although the tone of this week’s poem does clash a little with that – it’s definitely one of the slower, ‘quieter’ poems, I think, but I hope that it creates a scene that you find interesting to read! It was inspired by ‘Only Time Will Tell’ by Asia, which I’ve embedded below as per usual so that you can listen to it while you read the poem, if you like!
Starlit Wishes
This week’s poem marks the twenty-ninth entry in my song-inspired series of poems! I actually have a cool little bit of trivia to go along with this week’s poem – there’s a poem, which you may have previously seen on the blog, that I wrote with the name of this week’s song inspiration, ‘Take Me With You’ by Neck Deep – and also a similar extra-terrestrial theme to the song. I’m actually not sure if the song was a subconscious inspiration for that poem, but it’s nevertheless a cool coincidence!
Stop And Smell The Roses
This is the twenty-eighth entry in my series of song-inspired poems! This week’s poem, as you can probably tell from the title, does focus on nature, but also art, in what I think, at least, is a pretty interesting scene. It was also, of course, inspired by this week’s song, ‘Avant Gardener’ by Courtney Barnett. I hope you enjoy reading it!
Togetherness
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!
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!
My Orchestra
This is the twenty-fourth poem in my song-inspired poem series, and once again we’re going down the path of memory – I think a lot of these songs, at least for me, inspire the topic of memory, even if they themselves aren’t connected to specific memories (although sometimes they might be!). It’s also more along the lines of the topic of music, which does feel suitable for this series in particular. In any case, I hope you enjoy this one!
Seeing
Welcome to the twenty-third poem in my song-inspired series! As with a few of these poems now, I did end up writing around the topic of memory, and I think this week’s song (‘As The World Falls Down’ by David Bowie) did lead me towards that more pondering, ‘quiet’ tone, but I ended up having a bit of fun within that too, focusing on the idea of physical eyes. But anyway, I hope you enjoy this week’s poem!
Wherever You Are
The tone of this week’s poem and the tone of this week’s song might seem to be at odds with each other, but the idea for this poem came through really strongly while I was listening to the song (‘World War Now’ by Kreator) so I hope you enjoy this one despite the contrast. Letters seem to pop up a lot in my poetry (off the top of my head, Love Letter Penned By A Pining Princess comes to mind), often the handwritten sort–they just have that poetic feeling to them, I suppose!