Music Mondays

#MusicMonday is a trending topic on Twitter so I’ve given it a bookish twist here on the blog with music-inspired bookish posts. We’ve got song and book pairings, authors who are also musicians, reading playlists — any connection between music and books!

See below for previous posts, and join in with the hashtag #MusicMonday or share your own posts in the comments!

Music Monday: Haikus Continued

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Welcome to the fourth instalment of my musical haikus!

With this feature, I take 5- and 7- syllable phrases from songs I’m currently listening to and mix and match them to create new haikus! For more of my poems, check out the haiku tag.

Read on for the poems I created this week and links to the songs I pulled from!

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.
Photo of Rayland Baxter, a white man wearing a flat-brimmed hat and holding his hands clasped in front of his face. The photo is black and white.
Photo of Begonia, a white woman with reddish blonde hair, sitting in a squat against a green background. She has a kerchief over her hair and wears a pink shirt and green tights.
Photo of Yola, a Black woman, standing in front of a striped white and black background. She's wearing 60s-esque clothing, including a blue and pink patterned long-sleeve shirt and a matching headband over her long brown hair. She holds one hand over her head and the other under her chin.
Photo of Sister, a Black woman with a large afro wearing a fur coat and laughing with her mouth open and eyes closed.
Black and white photo of Raiche, a woman with darker skin posed with one arm across her body and one hand resting under her collar. She wears a white puffy sleeve shirt and has her hair back in a tight bun and wears large hoop earrings.
Photo of NIKI, an Indonesian singer, standing in front of a grey background and looking over her shoulder at the camera. She has shoulder length dark hair and wears a sleeveless black shirt and red makeup around her eyes.
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.
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.
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Music Monday: More Haikus

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I’m back with more haikus!

Some years ago I realized that many of the lyrics in songs I was listening to had 5 and 7-syllable phrases — perfect for haikus! So I mixed and matched them to create some new poems.

I felt like trying out this poetry style again as I’ve been listening to several new songs lately so I had many lyrics to choose from in creating more musical haikus. You can check out the other poems I’ve created from song lyrics in the haiku tag!

Photo of the band Cannons posing for the camera. A woman with blonde hair is in the front, wearing a long floral dresscoat and white platform boots. Behind her a bald man wearing a yellow sweater sits on the floor. Behind him a man wearing a blue button-up and black blazer stands and looks off to the side.
Photo of Charlotte Cardin, a white woman with dark brown hair wearing a blue hoodie and looking down.
Photo of Rayland Baxter, a white man wearing a flat-brimmed hat and holding his hands clasped in front of his face. The photo is black and white.
Photo of Caroline Rose, a white woman with blonde hair. She wears a red shirt, red fringe jacket, and orange-rimmed sunglasses and stands in front of a blue sky.
Photo of Your Smith, a white woman with short hair wearing a tank top and dark pants. She stands in front of a backdrop with her hands clasped in front of her torso. The photo is in black and white.
Photo of Begonia, a white woman with reddish blonde hair, sitting in a squat against a green background. She has a kerchief over her hair and wears a pink shirt and green tights.
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 the band BAILEN, three white people lying on the grass with their heads in the centre, looking at the camera. A woman with long brown hair is at the top and two twin men with dark brown hair surround her.
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Music Monday: In Search of Home Album Release

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Hello all! I have exciting music news for you this week!

Braeden Daggett aka From Ash & Dust joined us a couple weeks ago for a Music Monday interview about his upcoming album, In Search of Home, and it’s finally here!

Graphic of album art for In Search of Home by From Ash & Dust. Illustration of a tree, on the left side is a silhouette of a boy sitting at the base of a green tree. On the right side is the curled up silhouette of a boy sitting at the base of a dead black tree, though the trunk is connected. The album title is written in white text across the tree and the musician's name is written in pale pink in the lower right corner.

Officially released last Thursday, you can now find In Search of Home wherever you stream your music and for purchase on Bandcamp and iTunes! I’ve loved getting to listen to it in the making and I’m now even more excited to get to listen to the final versions!

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