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Stanley Wotring's avatar

Nirvana for the soul! Oops, wrong band.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Pretty close, though!

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Ken LéMarchand's avatar

This is pretty dope! I kind of want to do one based on Nine Inch Nails song titles bow.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thanks, Ken, yeah you should do it.

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Ken LéMarchand's avatar

I actually finished it just a while ago. Though, to be honest, I'll probably have to sit on it overnight and give it a read through again tomorrow. Something about the ending felt rushed I think, or it didn't sound right when I read it at least.

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Rod Bluhm's avatar

This is excellent! I feel like we’re all Learning to Walk as we get deeper into the alphabet.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thanks, Rod -- yeah, it's a lot of fun.

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Broo's avatar

My hero! I'll stick around

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

February stars (we are)

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Wonderful. Loving these sonnets/centos.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thanks, X. P. Possible theme song for you: X-Static

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Richbee's avatar

Good times rock n roll. Beat goes on; the next letter G. What’s to come?

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Garfunkel & Simon, maybe. Or not.

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

For all the cows, I have that song on a record and thanks for reminding me. Great song title poem, as if the lines were made to compose a poem like this!

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thanks WP. I'm enjoying getting a little more insight into your lovely Substack, too, but I still haven't figured out what the "by So Elite" is. Can you help me out?

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Thank you so much Jonathan! It's the pen name! Very kind comments thank you again!

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

The pen name is So Elite and the Newsletter is called Writer Pilgrim? So we should be addressing you as So Elite? So?

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Writer Pilgrim by So Elite is the pen name. Some call me writer pilgrim, some just pilgrim. I don't mind, others SE others WPSE, or WP. Whichever...

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

I like WPSE, pronounced “Whoopsy”

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Not sure of the Whoopsy!

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Ronald Drimmel's avatar

Clever, making a playlist.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you, amico

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Luis A. Estable's avatar

I like the humor in this. To read this is entertaining. Not much to say but to have fun when one goes through these lines.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thanks, Luis.

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Carolina Segura-Ruiz's avatar

Loved the playlist on Spotify. I had forgotten about several songs by FF from your playlist because I usually listen to their greatest hits. And I enjoyed those not very famous gems :) Very interesting exercise to write a poem out of song titles! Thank you for creating both: the poem and the playlist!

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thanks, Carolina. See my reply to Sea, below.

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Sea's avatar

lol! At least I did hear Gordon Lightfoot as a teenager! I’ll have to take your word for it on this one, and since it’s coming from you, it must be great, Jonathan!

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Truth be told, I was almost completely ignorant of Foo Fighters prior to doing this. I had no idea, even, of the connection with Nirvana. Now I feel a little more educated and am quite taken with them.

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Carolina Segura-Ruiz's avatar

This is even more interesting! So glad about you discovered Foo fighters! By writing.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

I’m looking forward to a lot more listening — really liking it.

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