CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Revisits “September Morn!”
This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge., Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at PM EDT.
Friday Fling #199 for September 28th 2012
This week, on the last Friday of September 2012, we’re thinking it’s just the right time to challenge you to rewrite a most apporopriate pop song lyric: Neil Diamond’s now classic “September Morn.” Here are the original lyrics followed by a video so you can recall the melody.
SEPTEMBER MORN
by Neil Diamond
Stay for just a while
Stay, and let me look at you
It’s been so long, I hardly knew you
Standing in the door
Stay with me a while
I only want to talk to you
We’ve traveled halfway ’round the world
To find ourselves again
September morn
We danced until the night became a brand new day
Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play
September morning still can make me feel that way
Look at what you’ve done
Why, you’ve become a grown-up girl
I still can hear you crying
In a corner of your room
And look how far we’ve come
So far from where we used to be
But not so far that we’ve forgotten
How it was before
September morn
Do you remember how we danced that night away
Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play
September morning still can make me feel that way
Neil Diamond concert version:
Original hit version:
You are free to rewrite any part, or all of the lyrics. Entirely up to you. The main thing is to be creative and have fun while there are still a few September morns to enjoy and before we are mourning the best September morns we cannot relive.
This week the Friday Fling gives September Morn a new review!
Be sure to save time to read and comment unmournfully on your fellow Pals’ September morn recollections/imaginations. Then go enjoy the morns, afternoons and even the eves of this last weekend in September!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for September 21st
Congratulations Barbara!
NOVEMBER MORN
Pray for just a while
Pray, and let me vote for you
It’s not been long, I hardly know you
What have we in store?
Pray for me a while
we know we want to vote for you
You’ve travelled all across this land
to find Amer-i-ca
November morn
A chance of turning night into the day
when voters must end scenes from his nightmarish plays
November morn we hope will cure our sad malaise.
Look at what he’s done
He’s criticized until we hurled
I still can hear him whining
How Bush caused all of our gloom
Look how far down we’ve come
So far from where we used to be
But not so far that we’ve forgotten
How it was before
November morn
We all remember how he drove freedom away
One leader playing scenes from some nightmarish play
November morning votes can make him go away.
NOVEMBER MORN
Pray for just a while.
God insists I vote for you.
It’s not been long, I hardly know you.
What have we in store?
Pray for me a while.
We know we want to vote for you.
You’ve travelled all across this land
to find A-mer-i-ca!
November morn:
a chance of turning night into new day,
when voters must end scenes from his nightmarish plays.
November morn we hope will cure our sad malaise.
Look at what he’s done.
He’s criticized until we hurled.
I still can hear him whining
how Bush caused all of our gloom.
Look how far down we’ve come,
so far from where we used to be.
But not so far that we’ve forgotten
how it was before.
November morn:
we all remember how he drove freedom away;
one leader playing scenes from some nightmarish play.
November morning votes can make him go away.
Copyright September 27th 2012 RGD
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