Song Praising Cape Canaveral's Environment and Our Enjoyment of It.
This is a new original song focused on the wonderful environment in which we are so blessed to live and the wonderful feelings experienced by the residents. It uses imagery to conjure emotions and paint scenes. Some of that imagery is more abstract than others, meaning that it is not necessarily clear to the reader, and is open to interpretation. For instance, the chapel referenced in the first line has two meanings to me. One is building sand castle towns on the beach, the other is the spiritual freedom that comes with taking a stroll on the beach (kind of like a church in its own sense, that we conjure up just taking it all in). The medicine is the sun and sea air that cleanses us and helps reduce the stress and transport us to our happy place.
The verses rhyme, but the refrain does not. The refrain adds lines each time it is repeated, making it what we call a strophe. This is done to build tension. Tension is a word people use to basically describe an element within the poem that makes makes it interesting. By making the refrain have no end rhymes, but instead contain internal rhymes and alliteration, it brings about a certain unstable feeling that contrasts with the fairly stable and calm scheme of the verses. Adding to the contrast is the use of piano on the verses and guitar on the refrains.
Quick note: the word "foleyed" is made up. Foley is a noun used to describe the addition of sounds to enhance viewers experience in a movie (If you have seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, think of the guy clapping coconut shells together to imitate a horse's hooves). This is referring to the sounds of nature marrying with the visual scenery in Cape Canaveral's environment and history to make a complete and unique locale.
The song ends with a "bob and wheel". A bob is a very short line, often alliterative or aggressive, that announces the start of a wheel (Here, it is "with wind"). A wheel is a group of lines, often a quatrain, that is rhythmic and often alliterative, very "sing-songy". A bob and wheel usually follows a strophe, which is a stanza that does not have a regular meter and rhyme pattern, like the refrain preceding it in this case. Here, the second and fourth wheel lines rhyme with the bob.
Green Night
Remember rendering the chapel
Setting our souls free
Dragging feet on a sunset shore
Beside a raging sea
Medicine flooding both our lungs
As we stop to breathe
Feel the breeze blowing colder now
And we unroll our sleeves
No expectations or stations to know
We found a quirky town and made plans to stay
Floridian obsidian,
Turquoise, and prehnite
Waves envelop all our joy
Onward we ride
Towards horizons enchanted
Not tainted with lies
Anchored by emotions
Our dreams explode the sky
No expectations or stations to know
We found a quirky town and made plans to stay
Lightning flashes, thunder crashes on liquid lace
Watch the clouds, prouder now, falling over us
Hear a foleyed matrimony
On this holy dive
Violently vulnerable
Defenseless and alive
The heron's fairing better now
And the anhinga dries
With grasped hands contrast the land
Feel the Ais thrive
No expectations or stations to know
We found a quirky town and made plans to stay
Lightning flashes, thunder crashes on liquid lace
Watch the clouds, prouder now, falling over us
with wind
Where the water waits with wonder
Between the wrecks within
Blessed with bliss and blunder
But we've stayed steadfast since
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RnsGTHL_6JEPMKKgpNQFlCNLhdYxgoZh
The verses rhyme, but the refrain does not. The refrain adds lines each time it is repeated, making it what we call a strophe. This is done to build tension. Tension is a word people use to basically describe an element within the poem that makes makes it interesting. By making the refrain have no end rhymes, but instead contain internal rhymes and alliteration, it brings about a certain unstable feeling that contrasts with the fairly stable and calm scheme of the verses. Adding to the contrast is the use of piano on the verses and guitar on the refrains.
Quick note: the word "foleyed" is made up. Foley is a noun used to describe the addition of sounds to enhance viewers experience in a movie (If you have seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, think of the guy clapping coconut shells together to imitate a horse's hooves). This is referring to the sounds of nature marrying with the visual scenery in Cape Canaveral's environment and history to make a complete and unique locale.
The song ends with a "bob and wheel". A bob is a very short line, often alliterative or aggressive, that announces the start of a wheel (Here, it is "with wind"). A wheel is a group of lines, often a quatrain, that is rhythmic and often alliterative, very "sing-songy". A bob and wheel usually follows a strophe, which is a stanza that does not have a regular meter and rhyme pattern, like the refrain preceding it in this case. Here, the second and fourth wheel lines rhyme with the bob.
Green Night
Remember rendering the chapel
Setting our souls free
Dragging feet on a sunset shore
Beside a raging sea
Medicine flooding both our lungs
As we stop to breathe
Feel the breeze blowing colder now
And we unroll our sleeves
No expectations or stations to know
We found a quirky town and made plans to stay
Floridian obsidian,
Turquoise, and prehnite
Waves envelop all our joy
Onward we ride
Towards horizons enchanted
Not tainted with lies
Anchored by emotions
Our dreams explode the sky
No expectations or stations to know
We found a quirky town and made plans to stay
Lightning flashes, thunder crashes on liquid lace
Watch the clouds, prouder now, falling over us
Hear a foleyed matrimony
On this holy dive
Violently vulnerable
Defenseless and alive
The heron's fairing better now
And the anhinga dries
With grasped hands contrast the land
Feel the Ais thrive
No expectations or stations to know
We found a quirky town and made plans to stay
Lightning flashes, thunder crashes on liquid lace
Watch the clouds, prouder now, falling over us
with wind
Where the water waits with wonder
Between the wrecks within
Blessed with bliss and blunder
But we've stayed steadfast since
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RnsGTHL_6JEPMKKgpNQFlCNLhdYxgoZh
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