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[taratemima]

So, browngirl had this meme. I decided to add my own touch to it.



Name a song/poem that...

reminds you of an ex
"Last Dance" The Cure ("Obsession" by Siouxsie and the Banshees reminds some people I had crushes on, actually, as well as some Rilke)
Understanding by Pauline E. Soroka

makes you cry
"Blood of Eden" Peter Gabriel
Tonight I Can Write by Pablo Neruda

reminds you of High School
"Ocean Sized" Jane's Addiction
Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay

reminds you of childhood
"The Chicken Dance"
Mother Goose and prayers

reminds you of junior high
"Channel Z" The B-52s
Alone by Edgar Allen Poe

mirrors true life a little too closely
"Deserter" Splashdown
First Memory by Louise Glück

makes you laugh
"Saturday Night Holocaust" Dead Kennedys (okay, so my humor's a little black today)
Shadwell by John Dryden

will always get you up to dance
"If I Should Fall From the Grace of God" The Pogues
Tommy Atkins by Rudyard Kipling set to a British dance hall song (no, haven't heard, but can imagine)

you used to hate but now love
Can't think of one, though I appreciate rhymed poetry now.

you love but wouldn't know about if not for a friend
Gackt, The Faint, The Curtain Society
Autumn in Spring (or at least that's the gist of the title in English) by Ruben Dario

you like from your parents' record collection
Most of Beatles #1
Much of the Prophet by Khalil Gibran

makes you think of sex
"Dazzle" Siouxsie and the Banshees
Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti

is your anthem
"Struggle" Killing Joke
For the Young Who Want To by Marge Piercy

is your ultimate love song
"Uncertain Smile" The The
Confession by Frantisek Halas

reminds you of a breakup
"You Don't Love Me Yet" as done by Bongwater
Kill Memory, Kill Pain by Anna Akhmatova

makes you think of your friends
"Love to Be Loved" Peter Gabriel
Outwitted by Edwin Marham

a National Anthem? Maybe.
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes

would be your choice for a planetary anthem
Could anyone really agree on one?

that you can't sing because you're crying
Surprising, the worst I get is misty, so can't answer that.

that makes you want to go to war
"Exorcism" Killing Joke
Jerusalem by William Blake

that makes you want to stop a war, any war
"Breathing" Kate Bush
The Diameter of the Bomb by Yehuda Amilchai

that changed your life in some pragmatic way
"Stop!" by Jane's Addiction
I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman

songs and poems that just took root
"Julian of Norwich"
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by William Butler Yeats

And a poem that looks long but worthy:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html