That got me thinking about which 15 songs and poems might reflect an image of my soul. I ended up making a list of 10 of each:
Songs Poems
Bohemian Rhapsody—Queen Wreck of the Deutschland—Gerard Manley Hopkins
We Are the Champions—Queen Adam's Curse—W.B. Yeats
Here You Come Again—Dolly Parton Facts About the Moon—Dorianne Laux
Music Again—Adam Lambert The Peace of Wild Things—Wendell Berry
Foot Loose—Kenny Loggins Valediction Forbidding Mourning—John Donne
Sea Cruise—Frankie Ford Fragments—Stephen Dobyns
Me and Bobby McGee—Janis Joplin Let Evening Come—Jane Kenyon
Maggie May–Rod Stewart Funeral Blues—W.H. Auden
We Didn't Start the Fire—Billy Joel After Making Love We Hear Footsteps–Galway Kinnell
Could This Be Magic—The Dubs Elegy for Jane—Theodore Roethke
After compiling this list, I looked into the mirror and saw the reflection of my soul. Oh dear. What does yours look like?
Diane, you should wear VERTICAL stripes. They'll make you look so much taller.
ReplyDeleteI thought I looked pretty tall there. In a sense, I am wearing vertical stripes also.
ReplyDeleteGregory Orr is so very inspiring. I heard him speak once at Writers@Work, once at an AWP conference, once at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. One of his poems which has been a "key to our being" for my own life is his "Investigation" which ends, "Wouldn't anything / cry like that, / pierced to the heart?" Thank you for drawing attention to him, Diane. The more people who read his fine work, the better for poetry and poets.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for this post. Love your lists and the picture. I'll be thinking about my own top 10 as well.
ReplyDeleteOddly, I found that the songs came to me faster than the poems. I added the bars to the picture and am feeling quite clever.
ReplyDeleteLove the list idea and your lists! Will ponder my own...over next few days.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea, Diane! Thanks for another thought-provoking post.
ReplyDeleteAfter much reflection, here are my lists:
Songs
1. MacArthur Park (James Webb/Richard Harris Singing)
2. Dust in the Wind (Kansas)
3. Hosea (Hymn)
4. All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
5. The Stranger Song (Leonard Cohen)
6. Till It Shines (Bob Seeger)
7. Still the Same (Bob Seeger)
8. We Are the Champions (Queen)
9. When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan)
10. Back on the Chain Gang (Pretenders)
Poems
1. Four Quartets –“Little Gidding” (T. S. Eliot)
2. The Stolen Child (William Butler Yeats)
3. Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)
4. Brown Penny (William Butler Yeats)
5. The Song of Wandering Aengus (William Butler Yeats)
6. God’s Grandeur (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
7. Pied beauty (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
8. Lucky Life (Gerald Stern)
9. St. Peter and the Angel (Denise Levertov)
10. Last Lines (Emily Brontë)
Great list, Adele! You should also post it at your blog.
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