Music Meme 2: Brought to You By the Letter "L"

Guys, I'm back! My International Woman of Mystery persona kicked butt et cetera overseas, and it's good to be back.

Here's a tiny music meme, from clionona : 

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

Clio gave me the letter 'L' and I promised Lire I wouldn't overlap with her list ;). (links go to Youtube.)

1: Leonard Cohen, Famous Blue Raincoat. Amazing old school songwriter and storyteller (whom Renata and her mom love!). Vintage vid of that "one more thin gypsy thief".
2: Luka: Suzanne Vega. Love this singer, love this song: "Yes, I think you've seen me before." Also, and totally cheating, also love her Left of Centre.
3: Love Rescue Me: U2 with BB King. Classic U2, with Bono kind of pompous and certainly glorious, pre-Zooification:"Here without a name, in the palace of my shame".
4: Little Lies: Fleetwood Mac, the classic version! And covered more recently (and somewhat more hotly) by David Cook and the BoUH. Hey, they can tell me lies any time!
5: Life: Our Lady Peace. Awesome vid, the fellas and the apropos Mandarin calligraphy graphics: "Life is waiting for you..."

Thanks for letting me play, Clio! Anyone else want to, feel free to reach out!

Poetry Slam 2: Ode to The Beautiful Boy

Happy belated birthday, hopefulgenius! For some reason best known to Calliope, my poetry muse, I made you a Cookleta sonnet.

I hope you enjoy - the classic iambic pentameter was tricky, and I know it definitely can be improved, but Shakespeare is kind of tough to match up to, just saying, and it is absolutely non-constructive to be intimidated by the Bard (which is why I kind of filched this from his most famous sonnet  - hey, it worked for Sting!). Of course, lines and rhymes also borrowed from DFCook.

Title:Ode to the Beautiful Boy, or The Passionate Guitarist to his Love
Pairing: David/David
Rating: PG
Dedication: For Meg: happy belated birthday, dearest girl. May this year be filled with happiness and shining experiences, and love.
Also, for EGL, who apparently has a thing for Shakespeare. I hope this doesn't grate too badly, love; I do hope to improve in due course ;)
Acknowledgement: Thanks again to the lovely motherendurance, this time for her insightful poetry beta!

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Ode to the Beautiful Boy, or
The Passionate Guitarist to his Love

My lover's eyes are open in the sun;
His atmosphere is all that I breathe in.
His smile, the steady course my heart would run,
And in his arms, I find I'm whole again.

I love to embrace him, and well I know,
The fugues and symphonies that lie between
His lips, his arms; I'd feel the music grow
And watch him come before me like a dream.

I feared, at first, surrender to this love:
Thought it was best to live my life alone;
But he reached out to shine a light above
And light the fire that brought me back to home.

I tried but could not walk away from this:
In faith, it truly was some kind of kiss.

(...I think I have Archie's responsive sonnet somewhere on the back burner...! Maybe when Calliope gets back. Edited to add: She's back, it seems!)