Let's play the blues

EASY:
write a poem about blue that includes these three words

1.chord
2.soil
3.speak

BUT does not include

1.eyes
2.desire
3.water

MEDIUM:
must be written without rhyme
(also must include the easy requirments)

HARD:
must be written as an acrostic (a poem where the first letters of each line form a word)
(also must include easy and medium requirments)

Re: Let's play the blues

They couldn't speak
They soiled their bluejeans
When John E WordSlinger
played his chord


Did I Strike the right Chord??

Last edited by WordSlinger 06-12-2009 at 05:36:28 PM

Re: Let's play the blues

Movement,
Banana strands with lose strings
They speak thru the secrets of every lip
Digging
The soil thru the root of the soul
As the scent of the lavender aroma grabs
Another soul’s hand
Let's play the blues

Re: Let's play the blues

Lovesick, Lonesome Blues





Looking out my back window,
O’er cross the fields,
Visions of your loveliness,
Enveloped the atmosphere (Oh Baby)
So sad & lonely, so sad & lonely, so sad & lonely
I could cry (Blues Riff)
Carried by six,
Killed by but just one,
Love left me for dead,
Oh! - My heart ate the gun
Now I’m, sad & lonely, sad & lonely, so sad and lonely I could cry (Riff)
Everlasting pain,
Silhouettes in the rain,
On my knees in the soil, and I’m, begging for your restraint!
My mind can’t speak,
Empathy’s for the weak, she says,
Baby you’ve given me, these!
Lovesick, Lonesome Blues! (Riff)
Unable to play my guitar, ya keep my soul in your jar,
Even my chords lost their heart , but ya, knew it from the start! Now I’m,
So sad & lonely, So sad & lonely, Oh, so sad & lonely, I could die (Riff)



http://www.originalpoetry.com/lovesick-lonesome-blues


This is an acrostic, which started out as a poem but ended as a Blue's Song, unfortunately I could not keep from rhyming completely.

-Spence

Re: Let's play the blues

DELTA BLUES



Melodiously stricken chord

Ushers sweet refrain

Delta soil laborers

Driven by unbroken soul

Yearn their hearts to speak



Whipped beyond mercy

Anchored to a plow

Tendered to labor

Ere slips a saddened song

Repressed by society

Still it is heard!!



I know that I failed in the test here, guys, because I used Waters in my acrostic, but to me, Muddy Waters embodies the personification of the Blues. I grew up in the Mississippi Delta, and I cut my teeth on music such as this. I could do no less than to write this as I have. Thank you for the challenge.

Re: Let's play the blues

I am so pleased, and excited by the response and effort you guys are giving this. I will continue to post these challenges weekly. I can't wait to see what you guys can do

Re: Let's play the blues

BLUES

Buried my heart in the soil of your rejection
Loveless day, lonesome night
Under the spell of misery
Every silent chord you play
Speaks volumes.

~mdpoetgirl


I think I met all of the requirements - EASY, MEDIUM and HARD.

Re: Let's play the blues

Blue Yo Yo

It spins its quiet chord
whirling on the string
kissing along the soil
walking at a fingers
command,
giggles the only
language
children speak
to the whirling,
spinning, blue
pearl dancing
on the string

Re: Let's play the blues

Willows bend in the soil- it’s what they do
Adapting to such wind as an oak would be defeated by
Instinct preserves, if the body and soul can strike a chord
That’s why we should give them a chance to speak before we decide things will work.

Last edited by NevillePark 06-19-2009 at 11:11:49 AM

Re: Let's play the blues

Despite its good name, a flag could be
Raised. There are forces afoot in the bones of ambition
Intent would speak at home plate - the batter is you
Virulent streams bleach skeletal frame to forsake an a-chord
Everyone loves a winner - but a victor speaks of a level field

Last edited by NevillePark 06-24-2009 at 05:18:45 PM

Re: Let's play the blues

Chords of azure music
Echo through blue skies
Redolent of our desires lying
Underneath the paper skin as
Learned voices speak in tongues to
Everyman’s needs, as basic to life
As the soil that is broken on the birth of
New spring irises from frozen ground

Re: Let's play the blues

Minor Thing

Pray for silence between chords;
Epiphanies need white space, punctuation;
Negative soil to bury the sound so that the
Tones ring clearer in contrast.
A wise person named Miles Davis once said,
"Take the horn out your mouth, motherfucker."
On the occasion of John Coltrane asking how he could keep from playing every single
Note he knew.
It speaks volumes of the man who
Can refrain to make a point.

Re: Let's play the blues

Easy challenge

She sings and hums as if no one can hear
A harmonica will speak the chord
She practices every day and eve
To the one she lost who loves her still
She sings and hums whether sun or rain
The man upstairs hears her wail on a drum
As he plants his garden hands deep in soil
Neither knows the other "blues"
Is their middle name

Last edited by ginga 06-21-2009 at 08:13:53 PM

Re: Let's play the blues

Now the Hard challenge

M y soul is sold to the soil
E ven though I speak to the sky
L ike a sour chord reverberating
A ll through the church
N o one can feel my pain
C hildren love the song I sing
H usbands loathe the chanting cry
O nly some understand that
L onliness and love can
Y earn in this heart of mine


My bluesy attempt

Last edited by ginga 06-21-2009 at 08:12:18 PM

Re: Re: Let's play the blues

Quote:

Originally Posted by ginga

Now the Hard challenge

M y soul is sold to the soil
E ven though I speak to the sky
L ike a sour chord reverberating
A ll through the church
N o one can feel my pain
C hildren love the song I sing
H usbands loathe the chanting cry
O nly some understand that
L onliness and love can
Y earn in this heart of mine


My bluesy attempt

Re: Let's play the blues

Ty you mdpoetgirl for your generous response. I also liked yours very much since you said so much in just a few lines.

Re: Let's play the blues

Vera Lynn


She rocks the E flat chord,
as blood onyx droplets,
crash into the soil,

Old girly barely speaks,
but screams and is understood,
As rage conflagrates the burnt summer
sun, because the lack of love sears
from her dreams that are nothing but passion.

~Zeta

Last edited by Cysonne 06-23-2009 at 03:05:06 AM

Overture of Spring

Eternal new beginnings,
Nature's preamble song,
Tulips trumpet their colors,
Enticingly picture perfect,
Rich, vibrant foliaged gems,
Soils soon blossom,
Perrenials come alive,
Robins sing, as if on cue,
Impatiens sprout in purplish blue,
Nothing can tame the beauty,
God's annual Overture of Spring.