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Golden Lines-Song lyrics with a sprinkling of poetry and proseCompiled by Addie Hunter, Lisa Craig, Marla Taylor, Michele Kelley, Stacey Meyer, Sheryl Walker 

Take the lines/words below and arrange them into a “found” poem.  You may add filler words such as “a” “an” and “the,” but the majority of the poem should be the words below.  You may mix and match words and phrases of your own as well.  Feel free also to change pronouns (ie:  change “he” to “she” or “I” to “you”).

 

Turn around, bright eyes

A good man is hard to find (short story of the same name by Flannery O’Connor)

On little cat feet (Carl Sandburg’s “Fog”)

Simply irresistible

Total eclipse of the heart

I need a hero

‘tis better to have loved and lost (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

Shot full of love

Something wicked this way comes (Shakespeare’s Macbeth)

A view to a kill

Mental health will drive you mad

Can you hear me now?

Thunderstruck

How do I get you alone?

We beat on, boats against the current (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby)

Back in black

Goodbye, Michele, it’s hard to die

You’re poison

Nevermore (Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”)

Running with the shadows of the night

We all live in a yellow submarine

Pour some sugar on me

She’s got Bette Davis eyes

You shook me all night long

I’ve fallen and I can’t get up

Purple rain

It was the best of times (Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities)

Dancing on the ceiling

Jesse’s girl

Can’t repeat the past?! Why, of course you can! (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby)

Paradise by the dashboard lights

Material girl

I want to check you for ticks

My give-a-damn’s busted

She thinks my tractor’s sexy

She sweeps with many-colored brooms (Emily Dickinson)

Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys

Cool, clear water

Like a rhinestone cowboy

She was a phantom of delight (“She was a Phantom of Delight” by William Wordsworth)

Where’s the beef?

You light up my life

Crazy ex-girlfriend

Oh, Mandy, you came and you gave without taking

Your nobody called today

The coward of the county

I ain’t missing you at all

They call him the streak

Can you feel the love tonight?

Neither a borrower nor a lender be (Shakespeare’s Hamlet)

Sleeping single in a double bed

Walk the line

I shot a man in
Reno just to watch him die

Kicking and a’gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Every rose has its thorn

She don’t know she’s beautiful

Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter

I’m crazy for feeling so blue

It was the worst of times (Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities)

Walking after midnight

Don’t it make my brown eyes blue

Jaded

Searching for my lost shaker of salt

Wake me up inside

Fair is foul (Shakespeare’s Macbeth)

Lean on me

Little red corvette

To be great is to be misunderstood

I must be cruel, only to be kind (Shakespeare)

Gag me with a spoon

The queen of my doublewide trailer

Raspberry beret

Hit me with your best shot

It’s a nice day for a white wedding

White sport coat and a pink carnation

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby)

Here I go again on my own

Life is but a shadow (Shakespeare’s Macbeth)

Our life is frittered away by detail (Henry David Thoreau’s Walden)

Eye of the tiger

You can eat crackers in my bed anytime

Life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue

Ring of fire

Ruby, don’t take your love to town

Bille Jean is not my lover, and her kid is not my son

Stay off of my blue suede shoes

The mind can make a heaven of hell (Milton’s
Paradise Lost)

You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog

I did it my way

Come sail away with me

I get around

Fly me to the moon

She let herself go

Living in a powder keg and giving off sparks