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STORY STARTER
Write a story about a character who has a melody stuck in their head constantly.
Is this just the result of a catchy tune, is there something deeper going on, or is it a sign of something they don't understand yet?
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I’ve been hearing you, Dad. I know you are somewhere close. I just need to find you.
I keep hearing a tune that you used to whistle every morning. I hear it in my dreams at night and even when I am in the pick up line at school. 🤔
It reminds me of the song you used to sing us right before sleep. Something about Cupid? It twas like, “Cupid, lend me your bow before a tantrum I throw.” 😁
OK… The...
‘Happy birthday to youu’
ChA cHa ChA
Cheery voices sing happily
Trying hopelessly to harmonize
‘Happy birthday to you’
cHa ChA cHa
All eyes on me
Me and my desperate attempt to be happy
Happy birthday dear Camilah
Happy birthday to you
I force a smile and tell myself
‘It’s not there fault, they don’t know’
AnD mAnY mOoRe
That one guy belts in the back
I blow out my candles 12, 13…an...
The song never left me. You Spin Me Right Round, baby Right around, like a record baby. Round and round in my head it went, on a loop. Just the chorus. The rest of the song was lost to be burbles and murmurs. Right round baby right round…sometimes I would dunk my head under the water in the bathtub just to stop it. The chorus just would not let me alone, like a fever dream at night when I tried to...
Swinging
Up
And
Down
The playground
Is
My
Home.
‘So you’re still thinking of me, just like I know you should…’
I wonder if
She’s
Thinking
Of me
The air rushing
Into my
Face
‘I cannot give you everything, you know I wish I could.’
I imagine her eyes
I want to give her
Everything,
She deserves it all.
The swing comes up
‘I’m so high at the moment,’
Then down
‘I’m so caug...
You don’t tell your heart to beat.
You don’t need to think to blink.
I don’t have to reach inside,
these words -
they just come out of me.
My mind is a symphony,
I think in a melody,
I fail to hear the sound of me,
But I still call it harmony.
I swear I don’t write poetry,
Most my pieces are like silent music.
These words just sorta come to me,
a muse I find truly amusing.
Let’s speed th...
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