A December Poetry Playlist
December at Tweetspeak Poetry!
It’s our hope that this playlist will give you a bit of an inspirational soundtrack, maybe spark the working out of some good poetry. When I set out to do a holiday haiku playlist, I thought, “Great . . . how many seventeen-syllable songs could there be out there?”
Turns out, not many.
So as a bit of a compromise, I’ve composed a list of my all-time favorite holiday songs. The old standbys are there to give you a bit of a touchstone–Mariah Carey, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland. There are some tunes that might be new, though, might stretch you a bit—The Shins, The Polyphonic Spree, Andrew Byrd. Give a listen and see what holiday creativity they might spark.
Enjoy the playlist, and have a happy December!
Writing Prompt: Do you remember how to write a haiku—that ancient Japanese poetic style? A haiku is composed of seventeen syllables, usually divided in sections of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively.
Join us in writing holiday haiku. Give it a try. Listen to the Tweetspeak Holiday playlist, and scratch a haiku in the comments below.
And remember, he knows if you’ve been bad or haiku, so be haiku for goodness sake.
Photo by Nanagyei, Creative Commons via Flickr. Post by Seth Haines.
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Maureen Doallas says
I’m featuring holiday haiku at Monday Muse today:
http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/12/monday-muse-writes-holiday-haiku.html
I have another half-dozen or so I haven’t posted. Here’s one of those:
Footprints in the Snow
this Early Christmas Morning.
Baby, Please Come Home.
L. L. Barkat says
loved listening to this.
And that photo is so quintessentially blossoms-in-the-snow haiku. You know? 🙂
Donna says
Here is my first Haiku to offer… Unhidden Secret, but please stop by the blog if you’d like to see the image I have been patiently waiting to use.
mystery remains~
an unhidden secret there
written on the soul
http://thebrightersideblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/unhidden-secret.html
Rosanne Osborne says
tissue paper toes
traipse into ever greening
portals of pleasure
Rosanne Osborne says
evergreen arms reach
for gifts just beyond their grasp
joy deadened in time
Joe Falcone says
Aluminum Pole
Hails airing of grievances
Happy Festivus
Donna says
hee hee 🙂
Seth Haines says
For the restofus!
Joe Falcone says
A Holiday rite
Let the Feats of Strength begin
To end it, pin me
Rosanne Osborne says
Christmas Eve Trilogy
crushing cold winter
threatens to reach inside scarves
distancing Christmas
street bound old matron
feels the gingerbread crumble
chapped hands touching dreams
childish eyes follow
the drunken Santa’s stumble
almost recalling
Rosanne Osborne says
Nativity
light shows dusting yards
pilgrim tires crunch on cracked glass
blazes of fake glitter
con temporary
faith and nostalgia displayed
it’s the thing to do
somewhere beyond stars
beyond Bethlehem memory
meaning rides its camel
Rosanne Osborne says
camels trudge the sand
shifting the grains of time’s glass
images in relief
lynndiane says
Japanese poets
don’t celebrate christmas but
say “haiku…bless you!”
Rosanne Osborne says
unexpected knock
guests intrude, uninvited
Bethlehem ballad
Rosanne Osborne says
Madonna and child
rest on the pristine mantel
pungent dung denied
Rosanne Osborne says
tired donkey dawdles
eminence beyond knowing
bearing hope’s burden
Rosanne Osborne says
urgency of snow
in night to cover the world
before day soil comes
Rosanne Osborne says
slipping on a rock
the hoof falters, load shifts
trinity moves on
Bethany R. says
What fun! Happy holidays to you all!
Natalie Salminen Rude says
oh dark gestation!
we smile in the mystery
darkness is as Light
(How I love the power of a humble haiku! Like a lowly manger bed, yet cradles the Christ.)
Merry Christmas to your lovely poet-hearts 😉