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A Good Omens song text based on a 60ies pop song to express my optimism that in 2 weeks, all will be well in the end!
Rhythm of these lines based on the song
“Dancing in the street”, written by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson, and Ivy Jo Hunter for Martha and the Vandellas in 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc
Watch the video or just listen to the original song, if you like. It is quite flexible and incorporates diversity of syllable counts and rhythms with ease.
(lines in brackets are chorus only)
🎼🪇🎵🎶🎹🎶🎼🎸🎶🥁🎵
Do you remember VE-Day? (1945)
They were dancing in the street!
There was laughing, crying, and records playing,
We were dancing in the street.
When this war is over (soon, soon over)
And there is peace all over
They will dance again in Soho
We’ll be dancing in Whickber Street!
There will be all the traders (dancing in the street)
And all the shopkeepers
From the association
Dancing in Whickber Street
Like a cotillion ball (only even better!)
But freestyle
We will be having a ball!
But we’ll be dancing in the street
When this war is over (soon, soon over)
And there is peace all over
They will dance again in Soho
We’ll be dancing in Whickber Street!
There will be all kinds of music (more than Sondheim…)
On Earth, there’ll always be music
There will be music everywhere
There will be swing and bee-pop
And classical music
Music is here to stay
And there will always be sushi (all the sushi)
All the vol-au-vents you desire
Gravlax with dill sauce too
There will be friends and neighbours
Of every persuasion
And of every nation too
When this war is over (soon, soon over)
And there is peace all over
They will dance again in Soho
We’ll be dancing in Whickber Street!
We’ll be dancing in Whickber Street!
We’ll be dancing in Whickber Street!
We’ll be dancing in Whickber Street!
S3 promo pic under the cut, spoilers…
I wrote this for a WSWA internal weekly prompt list counting down to S3 release, all my weekly prompt and S3 promotion picture related fills for it are here on AO3.
A series of podficced Good Omens poems, performed by Literarion, written by different poets in the Good Omens fandom. Find the series here on AO3. (4 works currently, a new one every weekend)
Want to read more Good Omens poetry? Here are a few collections.
Best of: Good Omens Poetry Edition (16 works)
GOems (Poetry by the GOAD Writers Guild) (198 works)
GOetry - Good Omens Poetry Club Collection (143 works)
Want to write Good Omens poetry yourself, or just be the first to see new poems, or talk about poetry? Join the tumblr Good Omens Poetry Community, info post here!
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An Acrostic Poem for Style Sunday (I’m late…) over at the @whickberstreetwriters
(additional plain text below to ensure readability)
This is dedicated to all the lovely people at the WSWA discord, who’ve been showing me around their version of Whickber Street these past two months, sharing a (virtual) glass or two in assorted establishments (channels), making me feel at home.
Thank you all so, so much!
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Whickber Street
Won’t you come along to Soho with me?
Heaven on Earth, they call it Whickber Street …
It’s the street where the best folks always meet,
Come let’s go, get happy feet!
Kooky bookshop here, but the owner is hunky!
Brown’s World of Carpets, let’s skip that, that’s too swanky…
Eclectic choice of records in The Small Back Room, that’s funky,
Raise a few with me now in the Dirty Donkey!
Seamstresses crowd, who’ll mend your shirts and sox!
Tiny alleys full of old-fashioned sex shops…
Really, don’t pay the blue glassed fox,
‘Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, see any kinky white cops?
Eat Eccles cakes while my espresso cups pile…
There’s so much more to show, let’s tarry awhile!
And here are most of the sources that influenced me, if anyone wants to know more details about Whickber Street:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Good Omens (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Muriel (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Sandalphon (Good Omens), Michael (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Jesus (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: prompt fills, Countdown to S3 release, Limerick, Dancing in the street (song 1964), Whickber Street Traders and Shopkeepers Association, Haiku, renga
Series: Part 3 of Poetry in Shades of Teal
Summary:
Prompt fills for weekly prompts until Good Omens S3 arrives. Small poems, drabbles, … let’s see what else?