[Soaring Feather]

Lyrics are easier than poems or prose.

Really???Don't you need a tune in your head??? Some years back a tune writer want to work with me. I offered to help him, but never heard from him. :-( Sometimes I can write perfect rhyme, other times just Free Verse. Mostly Free Verse.

[Conspiracy Guy]

If you notice my little poems. They usually meter very strictly. Not always the same meter from poem to poem. Sometimes I change meter in a poem. In lyrics you can change the meter every two lines or stick with it. You can sub music licks for meter through lyrical pause. It is fun and you save a lot of words. It is easier with a tune but you can write lyrics first and a good tune writer can shovel music into it. I have worked both ways. Jim Morrison of the Doors was a poet first and a lyricist after.

[Darksheare]

I have tunes stuck in my head, and sometimes lyrics, but I have absolutely no musical talent at all.
Can't read sheet music to save my life, let alone write it.
And I'm tonedeaf as a post.

Sometimes poems will come to me to a tune in my head.
Or I'll hear a song while dreaming, a song that does not exist in the waking world.
I end up having to write furiously to get it down before it fades.

Kinda like these two fragments that came ot me last night, to Pink Floyd style music off of Momentary Lapse of Reason:

You shoved me, wingless
Out into the darkened sky
cruelly smiling
Knowing that I wouldn't fly

And again, this one to a tune similar to'Yet Another Movie'

here on the road
here onthe road to nowhere
without a hope
(what is hope?)
without a prayer
(borrowed prayer)
a kamikaze game
of truth or dare

Cripes dreams are so disturbing and surreal.

[Soaring Feather]

My Blue Dance

For my dance I decided upon
blue satin over antique white lace
I wanted to wear you
on my skin
breathe air filled with you
seduce you with smoky eyes
and slow music
want you until 
you became the music
and the fabric...

I wear you well

bentfeather ©
02/07/03