I participated in this challenge in February of 2019 and 2020 and it is coming back again this year, however it will be a bit different. Bee the host has a private blog, so there will be no pingbacks this year, the prompts are themed as the Great Love Stories and she is expecting poetry or music, so you can choose a song or a write poem or do both. February will have 28 days of love and the prompts are here with my planned choices listed below.
- Choose your own
Peter & Gordon ‘A World Without Love’
- Romeo & Juliet~ Find a love song and/or write a Madrigal about them.
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts ‘I Hate Myself For Loving You’
- Casablanca~ Find an unusual version of “As Time Goes By” and/or write an Acrostic with this song title
Cyndi Lauper ‘Time After Time’
- Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal(Taj Mahal) ~ Find a Bollywood song and/or write an Epitaph for lovers
Taj Mahal ‘That’s How Strong My Love Is’
- Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo~ Find a Jazz love-song and/or write a Contrapuntal poem about Rivera & Kahlo
Sarah Vaughan ‘All Of Me’
- Paris & Helen~ Find a love song of war and/or write an ode to Helen & Paris
Dusty Springfield ‘I Only Want to Be with You’
- Bonnie & Clyde~ Find a Blues love song and/or write a Nonet about doomed love
Muddy Waters ‘Just Make Love To Me’
- Choose your own
Neil Young ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’
- The Butterfly Lovers~ Find a pop love song with a butterfly in it and/or write a Gu Ti poem (second form in the article)
Bob Lind ‘Elusive Butterfly’
- Johnny Cash & June Carter~ Find a country love song and/or write a Senryu about love
Johnny and June duet ‘You’re A Part Of Me’
- Tristan & Iseult~ Find a love folk song and/or write an Ae Freislighe about love
Emmylou Harris ‘A Love That Will Never Grow Old’
- Dr Zhivago & Lara~ Find a “revolutionary” love song and/or write an Onegin Stanzaabout Zhivago and Lara
Andy Williams ‘Somewhere My Love’
- Orpheus & Eurydice~ Find a singer/songwriter song about love and/or write an Ovillejo poemabout love
Todd Rundgren ‘Blue Orpheus’
- Niulang and Zhinu (Cowherd and Weaver Girl)~ Find a Valentine’s song and/or write aSijo poem about love.
Shirley Bassey ‘My Funny Valentine’
- Choose your own
Beatles ‘And I Love Her’
- Pretty Woman~ Find a great opera love song and/or write a Bop poem about Edwards & Vivienne’s love
Andrew Lloyd Webber from The Phantom of the Opera ‘All I Ask Of You’
- Cleopatra & Mark Antony~ Find a 50’s love song and/or write a Descord Poem about love
The Platters ‘Only You’
- Choose your own
Adele ‘Make You Feel My Love’
- Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas~ Find a chanson about love and/or write a Lai poem about Gertrude & Alice
Petula Clark ‘Love This Is My Song’
- Sisi & Franz~ Find an acapella Love song and/or write a Sestina poem about Sisi & Franz
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons ‘Can’t Take My Eyes off You’
- Lancelot & Guinevere~ Find a love rock song and/or write a Hir a Thoddaid poem about love
The Pretenders ‘I’ll Stand By You’
- Choose your own
The Cure ‘Love Song’
- Aragorn and Arwen~ Find a classical love piece and/or write a poem in your own invented language (With translation please)
Joe Cocker ‘You Are So Beautiful’
- Jackie Kennedy & Aristotle Onassis~ Find a love song from 1968 and/or write a free verse poem about love
Big Brother and the Holding Company ‘Piece of My Heart’
- Hadrian & Antinous~ Find a metal ballad about love and/or write a Rispetto poem about their love
Ozzy Osbourne ‘Mama I’m Coming Home’
- Katniss & Peeta~ Find a love song from the “Hunger Games” films and/or write a Tricubes poem about love
Van Morrison ‘Hungry for Your Love’
- Dante & Beatrice~ Find an Italian love song and/or write a Palindrome poem about love
Billy Joel ‘Scenes from an Italian Restaurant’
- Clara & Esteban (House of Spirits) ~ Find an exotic love song and/or write a Katauta poem
Savage Garden ‘Truly Madly Deeply’
Thanks for sharing the info ablout this challenge Sounds like fun!
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You are welcome Susan and I think it is nice to have a choice between music and poetry.
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I agree. Choices are always a plus.
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Thanks for posting the day by day list, as I hadn’t seen it yet. You do have some great choices! 🙂
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Thank you Barbara.
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Not an easy task whether you choose music or poetry. You’ve done a great job Jim.
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I hope to be able to write about all of the songs that I selected, but so far I only have the first one started, but what else am i going to do with my time.
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Run for office?
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There is no chance of that ever happening.
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Some really good songs listed here, plus a few I’ve never actually heard.
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I think I remember that you are a big fan of the Cure.
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You are so methodical in your blog work. Just having fun reading them and looking forward to this February lineup
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Thank you, that is nice to hear.
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Thanks so much for taking part. It is always a joy to learn from you and find new music. And again, I am so sorry I missed so many of your posts. Am on it now 🙂
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Well you sure caught up today. It is a pleasure for me to write in your challenge and this year’s prompts have really been great.
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Oh, I am glad you like them. I think next year I’ll ask for prompts again though. That was great last year and then we’ll see what I come up with 🤗🙋♀️🐝
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