npm pmmu #6: like cold water or a kiss

This month I'm posting daily Poetry-Music Match-Ups, and you're invited to join me! (See the bottom of the post  for ideas.)  When I don't have a crowd-sourced combo scheduled, I'll share one of my own many, many PMMUs!  If something comes to your mind, send it to me HERE.

From the C train in NYC, a Poetry in Motion poster snapped by my friend Jenn Sawin:

I found this, brand new to me, to go with it.

 "Cold Water" by Damien Rice, 2002

I'll be honest, though--the feel of this song doesn't quite match with the "cold water" of Shange's poem, which I read as sudden, shocking and refreshing.  The music kind of creeps up on you in a less pleasant, maybe even insidious way. 

Ways to match-up poetry and music--take your pick and send it to me!

·      your own poem with music that you've realized goes with it,

·      your own music with a poem that goes with it,

·      someone else's poem with someone else's music to match, 

·      song lyrics that you find particularly poetic,

·      poems written AS song lyrics

·      poems inspired by songs,

·      songs written about poems, 

·      poems written about songs, 

·      favorite nursery rhymes (which often have tunes),

·      and any other poetry-music combinations that make sense to you.