Music Monday: Musical Haikus Round 6

Time for some more nonsensical poems! 😛

I’ve done several versions of these musical haikus now, where I take lyrics from some of my favourite songs that fit 5- and 7-syllable phrases and work them into poems. And now we’re on round 6!

Check out this week’s poems below and let me know what you think!

Photo of Charlotte Cardin, a white woman with dark brown hair wearing a blue hoodie and looking down.

Photo of a Black man with dyed green short-cropped hair. He has a hand over his face and the index finger is bandaged.

Photo of a woman with long black hair looking at the camera. She stands in front of a pale pink background and wears a dark grey turtleneck and red lipstick.

Photo of Kwaye, a Black man, shirtless and holding his arms crossed over his chest. The photo is rotated so that he appears sideways and is cast in red light.

Photo of a Jewish woman with curly hair waving at the camera. She stands in front of a large window and is bent at the wait with a wide smile on her face.

Photo of Tayla Parx, a Black woman, looking at the camera with only her neck and above showing. The photo is tinted pink and she has a large afro digitally covered in flowers and leaves and with a guitar sticking out of it.

Close-up black and white photo of a Black woman's face. She is looking over her shoulder and wears a brimmed hat over her long dark hair.

Photo of Swinomish/Iñupiaq woman, Black Belt Eagle Scout. She has long dark brown hair and bangs and stands against a painted canvas of a blue sea, wearing a black-spotted white shirt and long necklace looking into the camera.

Forget you a day,

That was my part of the deal.

Now you’re still around

~~~

Fallen like darkness.

Are you afraid of light?

I’d know what to do.

~~~

Never what I seem.

I’ll try to keep my promise

when you look at me

Another set that almost works as one long poem! One of the best parts of this series is it’s an excuse to listen to these great songs as I work on the blog post, a truly musical Monday.

Songs: “Meaningless” by Charlotte Cardin ; “White Ferrari” by Frank Ocean ; “Face of the Sun” by Shana Cleveland ; “Paralyzed” by KWAYE ; “Love Me” by Erez Zobary ; “Residue” by Tayla Parx ; “Call Me Queen” by Ndidi O ; “At the Party” by Black Belt Eagle Scout