morning has broken
should i stay or should i go
fly like an eagle
i want to break free
boulevard of broken dreams
with or without you
killing me softly
another one bites the dust
how deep is your love
the final countdown
we didn’t start the fire
with a rebel yell
Congrats!! You did it and you hit a lot of my favourites in this poem!!
Aw, thank you!! 🙂
I want To Break Free, so touches home for many different situations. So beautifully written.
Yes, I suppose it must, though at the time I only saw it through one lens. Thank you, I feel pleased and honoured that you liked it. 🙂
Took me a while to work out why these lines felt familiar (forgot what the prompt was haha) then it all fell into place.
From the POV of the exercise it works well, but for publishing sake you’d have to acknowledge each title (there is a form of poem which is basically cribbing lines from lots of other poems, I forget it’s name ATM)
But an interesting exercise I have used with my writing students is to go & bust those “cliches” (song titles). Find ways to see how changing just a word in each line refreshes the imagery & potentially gives you a stronger richer poem because of it. (I have at least two poems I wrote during the marathon where I intend to do exactly that, I wrote a double sevenling where each line was a book title — & I can’t wait to see wait poem lies hidden inside that one 😁)
Hope this helps
Hi again, and thank you again! Yes this definitely helps and is a great idea. I didn’t really plan to do anything with it because of the song titles, but now I can and I love that. You, sir, rock!
Hi Fiona,
I surmised that these lines are song titles and it is quite unique – and it works to describe love-lorn experiences that we all have faced. Very creative!
Seventh Solstise
Hi Sevenrh,
Thank you for the compliment, I appreciate it very much. 🙂
Fiona