For today’s challenge let’s write a poem about music in any form. You can mention music fleetingly or write a poem dedicated to music. BUT please include any two titles from the following list. These are all taken from Linda Perry’s albums. These days my husband and I are enjoying the music of Linda Perry.

1. Edge Of Your Atmosphere
2. Sunset Strip
3. Life Despite God
4. Sunny April Afternoon
5. Bang The Drum
6. Life in a Bottle
7. Fruitloop Daydream
8. Tiny Box Of Lies
9. Knock Me Out
10. I Am My Father’s Daughter
11. Don’t Touch Me While I Am Sleeping
12. Secret Lover

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On the edge of your atmosphere I observe the tiny box of lies you are presenting to my rival. My orchestrated sonata of life despite god was everything I imagined, with you in it, but the gods now had other ideas. Along came the minor key requiem—your secret lover, and my fruit loop dream no longer had any bright colors. The sun faded into gray and I was alone once more, all harmonic notes destroyed.

http://dversepoets.com/2023/04/25/poetics-let-music-speak/

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

SHE HELD OUT HER ARMS TO HUG ME, BUT I KNEW THIS WASN’T MY HOUSE, AND SHE DEFINITELY WASN’T MY WIFE. She had similar features of course. After all, she was my mother-in-law. It’s just when she hugged me she whispered in my ear so only I could hear: “still alive I see…”. Such threats were no surprise after being married to her daughter for ten years.

http://fivedotoh.com/2023/04/25/fandangos-story-starter-94/

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Is everyone just staying in their own warm safe cocoon? Is the political climate too brisk to discuss the expedient need to persevere and overcome the huge problem we have here in the US?

Where is the strength of our forebears, who wanted to succeed in a new life with the hope that all people are created equal with freedoms hard won? We can’t sit idly by and hope and pray that Trump will be punished for his many wrongdoings. We need teamwork! He will take advantage of weakness as he’s done all along and reveling in it! Remember his speech about (he’s so popular that he could commit murder and able to get away with it)? Well he is! Make no mistake, he is murdering America.

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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/04/26/three-things-challenge-m310/Your three words today are:
PERSEVERE SUCCEED OVERCOME

https://cyranny.com/category/word-of-the-day/teamwork/

https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2023/04/26/your-daily-word-prompt-Expedient-ydwordprompt-April-26-2023/

https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/04/26/discuss/

http://fivedotoh.com/2023/04/26/fowc-with-fandango-brisk/

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/04/26/rdp-wednesday-cocoon/

http://lindaghill.com/2023/04/26/one-liner-wednesday-what-do-you-think/

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https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/04/26/w3-prompt-52-weave-written-weekly/

http://gmgblog.ca/2023/04/24/five-word-weekly-challenge-2317/

V for vampire, of course! A vampire in popular legend, is a creature, often fanged, that preys upon humans, generally by consuming their blood. Vampires have been featured in folklore and fiction of various cultures for hundreds of years, predominantly in Europe, although belief in them has waned in modern times. Because there is a long history of walking corpses and bloodsucking ghouls in folklore, it is difficult to pin down a distinct set of characteristics consistently attributed only to vampires. Giure Grando (1579–1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (Croatia) who may have been the first real person described as a vampire in historical records. He was referred to as a štrigon, a local word for something resembling a vampire and a warlock. Tales of the undead consuming the blood or flesh of living beings have been found in nearly every culture around the world for many centuries. In most cases, vampires are remains of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, but can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or a living person being bitten by a vampire themselves. Belief in such legends became so rife that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires.

My favorite vampire, Nosferatu:

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Santana and Peter Green perform at the 1998 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Song written by Peter Green.

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https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/04/25/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-317-4-25-23/