To dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
A time to live, a time to die
A ship called dignity
Acknowledgements for reproduction without permission as follows:
Bob Dylan for lines 1 & 2 (from 'Mr Tambourine Man').
The book of Ecclesiastes and latterly Pete Seeger in the song 'Turn, Turn, Turn'
for line 3 ( I changed a verb)
Ricky Ross of the band Deacon Blue for line 4 from the song 'Dignity.'
This is a great idea Dave. Perhaps you should propose it as the next WOL competition. A four line poem with each line being stolen from a well known book or piece of music. Full acknowledgements being provided of course. I'd certainly have a go if it happened.
Not so much a found poem as stolen?
All in all a hotch potch of poachings but I like it!
What is the other hand doing Dave? I'm just curious following Alvin's recent revelations. Maybe the ship is a metaphor - an ironic one.
You've missed the deadline for the Freedom thing so I'm expecting a disqualification. Haven't you heard there is a new sheriff in town - and he's real mean!
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Ann Foxglove
Thu 4th Nov 2010 18:05
Sounds lovely, wherever it came from! And I agree with Graham, it would be a good challenging idea for a comp - or would we be infringing copyright?