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Writer Pilgrim’s Song Title Poetry Challenge continues! Today’s letter was G, and I chose to make a poem out of Gordon Lightfoot titles (with a nod to the great double-G greatest hits album, “Gord’s Gold”).
A sonnet in song titles that also now exists as a Spotify playlist for your enjoyment.
Gord’s Gold If you could read my mind, rainy day people — if I could — looking at the rain the way I feel, early morning rain approaching lavender — I’d do it again. Sit down, young stranger. I’m not sayin’ the first time ever I saw your face talking in your sleep — that same old obsession: the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Gordon Lightfoot perfect!
Thank you for this. What a great artist to pay tribute to! Can anything really come close to his "Canadian Railroad Trilogy?" ("...When the green dark forest was too silent to be real...")