Tuesday, April 19, 2011

An old poem.

My finals end May 6th. Hopefully, I'll be done before that, but it all depends on scheduling. And then I'll have a little over 3 months of idle time, in which I can actually focus on my writing and music and other art. In other words, there should be some more posts to this blog. Regular posts, even.

Anyway, here's an old poem I wrote several years ago for a creative writing class. It's one of my favorites, and it uses the villanelle structure.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Sipsey River Bottoms

A very long, long time ago, when I was but a wee girl of 20 or thereabouts, I was a huge fan of the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?  Actually, I still love the movie and own it, I just haven't watched it in a long time.  Maybe I'll have to do that once my finals are over next month.  Anyway, one of my reasons for loving that movie so much is for the old-timey music in it--gospel, folk, country.  So I endeavored to write a song in that style, and came up with "Sipsey River Bottoms."  Of course, I only wrote the lyrics.

I posted it to my LiveJournal, and a friend of mine on LJ who is a musician (Glen), took the lyrics and wrote music around it and recorded himself singing it and then gave it back to me.  I loved the result, and I need to record my own version.  Perhaps next month when The Collaborator is here we'll do some kind of guitar-harmonica cover of my own song.  Maybe even with harmony?!  We'll see.  You can download Glen's version of the song here.

Lyrics are below the cut, if you need them.