#NaPoWriMo #2025
In her poem, Duet, Lisa Russ Spaar tells the story of two sisters making music together, based on two pre-existing songs by different artists. Today, we challenge you to write a poem that involves people making music together and that references – with a lyric or line – a song or poem that is important to you.
Happy writing!
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Making Music - The Tuneless Way
There is a lot of shuffling,
a few smiles, a few grimaces,
a bit of coughing and a
clearing of throats.
We have done our warm-up.
Our enthusiastic choir mistress
Is bouncing on her toes, The
lady who starts the music deck
is poised and ready to go.
We look up at the words
projected on the stark white
wall, scanning them with
our eyes. The signal is given,
the first notes of the music
start, and we begin to sing.
Tentative at first, a few off notes
as we struggle to find the melody.
Up comes the chorus, and we are
as one, "Why, why, why, Delilah?" we
chant with great gusto - our
voices bouncing off the walls.
We sway in time with the music
Some do a little dance, and there is a
nameless joy as voices blend together
to belt out that old Tom Jones classic.
We sing with passion and enthusiasm,
and somehow, our voices blend out
the less than tuneful of us and then
we are one, in Oldham's proudly
named Tuneless Choir!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025
* Tuneless choirs exist all over England. They are for people who want to sing like no one is listening! They bring people together to have fun while singing.*
**Delilah by Tom Jones is special to me as it was the first and only song I have ever heard my son, Stuart, sing on karaoke. **
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VIXEN of VERSE 
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