CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Lyricizes April Shower Power!
This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 P.M.
Friday Fling #177 April 13th 2012
We’ve all heard the cliche “April showers bring May flowers.” But aside from that effect, what do April showers mean to you? What sensual, emotional, or other feelings do they evoke? Were such ever associated in your life with anything significant?
To express the nature of April shower power, we thought it would be interesting for you to try to write about it in a song! No you do not need to create your own melody. In fact that would be quite difficult to relate accurately here, unless you did a video of yourself singing it!
Instead, pick the melody of a popular song, one as many of your CPC Pals and readers would recognize and could repeat to themselves, and write a new lyric to it. For instance, here’s one I just did to the Pat Boone standard April Love:
APRIL RAIN
April rain, is for beginning growing.
Soaking down into the ground to wake the seeds.
April rain helps thaw soil after winter.
But it can’t tell the flower seeds from weeds.
It takes one April day to muddy ground with showers,
rain to nourish seedlings for their sprouting growth.
More April rain helps keep plants growing quickly,
just like love sustained grows not just one but both.
Here’s the original lyric by Paul Francis Webster:
April love is for the very young
Every star’s a wishing star that shines for you
April love is all the seven wonders
One little kiss can tell you this is true
Sometimes an April day will suddenly bring showers
Rain to grow the flowers for her first bouquet
But April love can slip right through your fingers
So if she’s the one don’t let her run away
This week the Friday Fling dowers its bowers with April shower power!
Be sure to save time to read and shower compliments on your fellow Pals’ soggy songetry. Then go enjoy the April weekend, which just might include a shower or two!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for April 13th
Congratulations Sonnet Diva!
Sorry I didn’t make it here last night (((Bob!))) I fell asleep on the recliner again. Me always so sleepy lol… This will be fun. See you at the fling tomorrow night with a song. :love: