Bob Dylan challenge......

sultryevening

cheers sweets!
just passed a scuba diving course!

Being Enlightened

sultryevening wrote:

cheers sweets!
just passed a scuba diving course!

That's awesome! Wow! Man, your gonna have some deep sea diving fun, I suppose. You taking a vacation anywhere that you can use your new found skills?

Goulet

Bob Dylan is a poor man's Ramblin' Jack Elliot, who, in turn, is a poor man's Woody Guthrie, who, in turn, is a poor man's Leadbelly, who, in turn, stole songs from those before the age of recorded sound.

sultryevening

man, i love leadbelly.

he did some great songs

"you must have that pure religion , Halleloo,

"green corn"
think my favourite is "green goose"

i heard Rock Island Line by him years before I heard Johnny Cash do it, and I still think Ledbelly rules it!!!!1

sultryevening

Being Enlightened wrote:

That's awesome! Wow! Man, your gonna have some deep sea diving fun, I suppose. You taking a vacation anywhere that you can use your new found skills?

i just got back from Dubai where i did my course.
done two sea dives in the Indian Ocean since I passed- honestly the most amazing sights ive seen- for a man who gets panicked in the ocean- its so peaceful down there!
bliss!

Ms. Haiku

Unplanned, their clothes match in academic brown.
Standing, they stare at the bunched up sheets
scoping for liner notes. They read the space
in between them like test directions.

He sits on the bed and begins to remove his shoes.
He places them next to textbooks he didn't buy.
His fingers like feelers outline a circle around him
little by little renaming this bed temporarily his.

She walks to the window through the incense,
past the cigarette ash, and inhales the fading plume of Autumn inspiration.
It is leaving in backpacks zippered shut,
and locked in car trunks for just a few hours.

ISN

honestly bibliobella....I don't wanna flatter you, but I didn't like this.....it didn't click with me......:( I can't ever imagine bob singing it......I'm listening to subterranean homesick blues right now......and I didn't get any rhythm from your piece......nothing.....I'm only being honest .....flat.....nada......nothing.....) bob's best friend was rhythm....but this one doesn't have any......I'm only being honest.....cos I like you......

Ms. Haiku

ISN wrote:

honestly bibliobella....I don't wanna flatter you, but I didn't like this.....it didn't click with me......:( I can't ever imagine bob singing it......I'm listening to subterranean homesick blues right now......and I didn't get any rhythm from your piece......nothing.....I'm only being honest .....flat.....nada......nothing.....) bob's best friend was rhythm....but this one doesn't have any......I'm only being honest.....cos I like you......

No problem, sounds good. So, I have to write a song like him, not just be inspired by him? I've never written a song. I could try to write a poem more like his words . . .I just bought my first album of his, and I like it. I used to own books of his words, but not anymore. Ok, so the assignment is to write like him, what he would write . . . ok.

ISN

yep.....that's it......because this is a nice poem....although I switched off after realising.....but for this challenge you have to scream like bob......seeeeeeem like bob....etc...your poem doesn't fit right now, although I respect you as a poet.......this is not Dylanesque.....listen to him a bit more.....he's amazing....a real guru.....a real God of Poetry....and Master of Music......thanks......I jus wanted to be honest cos I'm having an honesty drive tonight.......:)

Ms. Haiku

ISN wrote:

yep.....that's it......because this is a nice poem....although I switched off after realising.....but for this challenge you have to scream like bob......seeeeeeem like bob....etc...your poem doesn't fit right now, although I respect you as a poet.......this is not Dylanesque.....listen to him a bit more.....he's amazing....a real guru.....a real God of Poetry....and Master of Music......thanks......I jus wanted to be honest cos I'm having an honesty drive tonight.......:)

Just call me Bobbybella or Bibliobob or Dylla . . . I'm making myself laugh, silly me.

ISN

you're making me laugh too honey......let's hug.....hey, I got no disease.....I got no fleas........I'm not a tease......kiss me and make up......Bibliobella cakecup

Ms. Haiku

ISN wrote:

you're making me laugh too honey......let's hug.....hey, I got no disease.....I got no fleas........I'm not a tease......kiss me and make up......Bibliobella cakecup

Here's a hug right back at you, ISN.

ISN

hey you might not be Bob Dylan.....still an' ya might be somethin else.....still an' ya might be one great person (gal ) who lives without pretense

Ms. Haiku

I tried I tried I tried. I was going to write words to the music of "I Want You" and it was going to be "I Dropped It" which would be words about the chocolate chip ice cream cone that I dropped when I was 8, and I still haven't quite recovered from. It was going to be witty, as Dylan is, and yet insightful, as Dylan is, and light and fun, as Dylan can be, and chock full of words, but . . . .nope. I think I'll just stick to being inspired.