John William Davis: Sonnet 129 [purchase] John's website is down and further research shows no CDs are available on CDBaby or Amazon....

Iron Maiden: Rime of the Ancient Mariner [ purchase ] Enough with these namby-pamby singer-songwriters, Star Makers. Let's rock! Back w...

The Innocence Mission: No Storms Come [ Purchase ] When I was reading up on Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to prepare to write this p...

Brady Earnhart : Wild Nights [ purchase ] Wild Nights is a short poem by Emily Dickinson. There are three stanzas of four lines each, a...

The Story: love is more thicker than forget [ purchase ] / [ read the poem ] The ever-lowercase e.e. cummings isn't the obvious choice ...

Mark Stewart & The Mafia : Jerusalem [ purchase ] Geoviki´s post on Jerusalem as interpreted by Billy Bragg made me remember another fi...

Glastonbury Tor Billy Bragg : Blake's Jerusalem [ purchase ] The poem we know as Jerusalem is William Blake's 1808 preface to ...

Loreena McKennitt : The Lady of Shalott [ purchase ] Alfred Lord Tennyson published his original version of The Lady of Shalott in 1832...

The Welcome Wagon: But For You Who Fear My Name Purchase I didn't think I would be able to post anything this week, but when our just a...

Fisher: Mad Girls Love Song [ Purchase ] It's difficult to look at a picture, like the one above, of Sylvia Plath and imagine the darkn...

Leonard Cohen : Take This Waltz [ purchase ] ¡Ay, ay, ay, ay! Leonard Cohen´s admiration for Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García L...

Peter Mayer : Now Touch The Air Softly [ purchase album ] [ purchase poem ] Even to a cynical heart like mine, it seems appropriate to post ...

Joni Mitchell : Slouching Towards Bethlehem [ purchase ] “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” It’s a very familiar quote. The o...

Des'ree: Kissing You [ purchase ] I am running out the door for a Valentine's Day/CD Release Party I am presenting in my concert se...

Lucinda Williams: Passionate Kisses [ purchase ] Lucinda Williams: Still I Long For Your Kiss [ purchase ] There's a ten year differen...

Seamus Kennedy : Ae Fond Kiss [ purchase ] Eddi Reader : Ae Fond Kiss [ purchase ] Karen Matheson (with The Duhks and Bryan Sutton)...

Kuroyume : Kiss [ purchase ] Alice Nine : Kiss Twice, Kiss Me Deadly [ purchase ] Buck-Tick : Just One More Kiss [ purchase ] Kiyoh...

Wayne Cochran : Last Kiss J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers : Last Kiss [ purchase ] Just before Christmas 1962, teenagers Jeanette Clark ...

Jill Sobule: I Kissed A Girl [ purchase ] Long before cherry chapstick popstar Katy Perry kissed her girlfriend, popfolk goddess Jill Sobul...

Loreena McKennitt : The Bonny Swans [ purchase ] Here's our missing sin: Envy. The Bonny Swans is a murder ballad about sexual jea...