Let Us Go

Song of the Day: The Bird and the Worm by Owl City

I recently received an English Assignment to write a poem with the prompt "Let us go..." from T.S. Elliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". The point of the poem we were to write was supposed to take the reader through a visual spin of our mind. Of course, I did mine on a spin of music. So I decided to share it with you today! Ho-ray for school assigned poems. I've written a bazillion and one of these in my lifetime.

"Let us go then into the airwaves of music

To the colors painted by invisible tones

To the moods spun out of utter nothingness

To the feelings created of innumerable experiences

Plastered on the canvases of your mind

Let us go to the place where emotions are almost tangible

To a place where you can drift in carefree bliss

Or sink into a hammock of lines and words and phrases

And notes and chords and key changes

It’s a world that you can create

And share with others

That others can share with you

With vibrant rifts and colorful flowing notes

You can paint your own masterpiece

You can write your own story

Where you can mold your own destiny

In the airwaves of music"

Clever, eh? I'd say it's pretty crazy. I'm just excited to be writing something without writers block again! :)

The reason today's song is one by Owl City is because Adam Young does a fantastic job of writing incredibly visually oriented music and lyrics, kind of like T.S. Elliot did. Sometimes the world needs to be painted with a bit more color, and both of these literal artists did so; one with music, one with literature. If anything, this goes to show there are a million ways to express what you want to say, so what's holding you back? "Let us go..." and create our own worlds!

Keep on Listening

Love, Lydia