how much is that doggie in the window?
(I got my first real six-thing!)
it takes a crane to build a crane ~
I just wanted you to comfort me
I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined…
I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden --
you, get up every morning
I'm glad you're home,
you, with the sad eyes
[from underneath the trees, we watch the sky]
well, I've heard those city singers singin 'bout how they can love
there used to be a graying tower alone on the sea.
my child arrived just the other day
{head underwater}
when I'm feeling blue, all I have to do…
she's like the wind through my tree
saying I love you
I got brass in pocket:
this used to be my playground [used to be]
Excuse me, madam
I'm coming out, I'm coming!
well, the midnight headlight find you on a rainy night!
I spent 20 years trying to get out of this place
(your everlasting summer,)
she's a brick house.
I feel so bad, I got a worried mind
(I want to live)
you got a smile so bright.
girl, to be with you is my favorite thing
I Took My Baby,
someone told me long ago there's a calm before the storm,
all the leaves are brown ;
you have my heart &
I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine!
oh oh oh oh oh
I wanna love you and treat you right,
she Was More Like A Beauty Queen From A Movie Scene /
what if I said yes?
L.A. proved too much for the man,
they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
overseas through the air
a lonely mother gazing out of the window
well, I love a rainy night,
it's been a hard day's night --
what happened here???
every breath you take and every move you make,
there she was, walkin' down the street -
it's strange to think the songs we used to sing
I don't feel like loving you today,
take all of your wasted honor,
fly, robin, fly
{doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo}
Author notes
i don't have an ipod; so i did it manually from my playlist. i wrote each song on a tiny piece of paper, and then shuffles it with my hands haha. it felt "like a puzzle." as to my title. fun yes.
in scrambled order:
1. How much is that doggie in the window -- Patti Page
2. Summer of '69 -- Bryan Adams
3. Life is wonderful -- Jason Mraz
4. You sang to me -- Marc Anthony
5. Unwritten -- Natasha Bedingfield
6. I never promised you a rose garden -- Martina Mcbride
7. Taking care of business -- BTO
8. Ring my bell -- Anita Ward
9. True colors -- Cyndi Lauper
10. If everyone cared -- Nickelback
11. Deeper than the holler -- Randy Travis
12. Kiss from a rose -- Seal
13. Cats in the cradle -- Harry Chapin
14. Love song -- Sara Bareilles
15. A groovy kind of love -- Phil Collins
16. She's like the wind -- Patrick Swayze
17. More than words -- Extreme
18. Brass in pocket -- Pretenders
19. This used to be my playground -- Madonna
20. No parking on the dance floor -- Midnight Star
21. I'm coming out -- Diana Ross
22. Driving my life away -- Eddie Rabbitt
23. Who says you can't go home -- Bon Jovi
24. Reeling in the years -- Steely Dan
25. Brick house -- Commodores
26. Blue Bayou -- Linda Ronstadt
27. Heart of gold -- Neil Young
28. The way you do the things you do -- UB40
29. Boogie shoes -- KC And The Sunshine Band
30. Black or white -- Michael Jackson
31. Have you ever seen the rain -- CCR
32. California dreaming -- Mamas And The Papas
33. Umbrella -- Rihanna
34. Pocketful of sunshine -- Natasha Bedingfield
35. D'yer maker -- Sheryl Crow
36. Is this love -- Bob Marley
37. Billie Jean -- Michael Jackson
38. Joey -- Sugarland
39. Midnight train to georgia - Gladys Knight And The Pips
40. Big yellow taxi -- Counting Crows
41. Sister don't cry -- Collective Soul
42. Waterfalls -- TLC
43. I love a rainy night -- Eddie Rabbitt
44. A hard day's night -- Beatles
45. Empty garden -- Elton John
46. Every breath you take -- Police
47. Do wah diddy diddy -- Manfred Mann
48. Should've said no -- Taylor Swift
49. I don't feel like loving you today -- Gretchen Wilson
50. Say -- John Mayer
51. Fly robin fly -- Silver Convention
52. Singing in the rain -- Gene Kelly
A contest entry
- another ipod shuffle contest... by just weak hands.
650 points, ended November 17, 30 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
this took more than three hours
Comments
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"Well I've heard those city singers singin 'bout how they can love
There used to be a graying tower alone on the sea."
"L.A. proved too much for the man,
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"
loved those parts ! There were some other good parts in here, but I don't think they all meshed very well together. Granted, it is difficult when you don't have something to electronically do this for you ahaha as I've told some others, I think if you put it in a different format, it could seem a lot more profound then if everything was left mashed together. It just doesn't help the flow. If there was some other punctuation, too, for some distinction, that could definitely help with your piece.
thanks for entering !
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I didn't mean to scramble my life around so much as to not back to you, but I just moved 350 miles. I did play with your permission to add punctuation -- but, since you didn't let us rearrange lines, my mind got too tired figuring out where the natural line is anymore. -bird
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ahaha oh no, it's all good ! :] and believe me, what you did was fine !
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