Lyrics

Have you ever considered song lyrics as poetry?

I do from time to time. Tonight, as I’ve been on the computer, I’ve been paying extra attention to song lyrics, for some reason.

I have no intention of writing a song, but the rhythm of them has been catching my attention. Probably especially because I’ve been thinking of the poems-of-place projects I’m kicking around in my mind.

One time, I bought a book of poems, A Night Without Armor by Jewel Kilcher. They were poems and pictures she had taken. A couple years later, I heard one of the poems she had put in the book on the radio as a song. I’d have to find the book to be able to tell you which one it was. (The book is in storage.)

I remembered that book tonight, too, as I was paying attention to the lyrics.

One time, several years ago, a RL friend and I were talking. I said I wasn’t a songwriter. (I don’t remember how we got around to that.) He said I did, that my poems were songs. I still didn’t agree. He offered to put some of them to music to prove it to me. Time passed and that never happend.

Now, as I record some of my poems to burn to a CD for an aunt who lives in California, I wonder how they would have been put to music.

Another project for another time, perhaps. (Or perhaps not as I don’t play an instrument or compose music.)

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