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watcher of movies. listener of music. consumer of chocolate. despiser of avocados. conveyer of cosmic chaos.

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Okay #DavidsMonthOfMusic peeps

So far there's never been a challenge in November but as the hashtag has grown I didn't want to not have anything this month. So I've come up with something a bit different...

As always I hope you have fun and find/rediscover music you love!
I thought we could try something different this month... Connections! Day 1, pick a song. Any sing. Day 2, pick a song that is connected in some way to the previous day and each day just keep finding links to the song from the day before. You can be as basic or as nerdy as you like! A few ideas for links: Written by the same person. Toured together. Guest artist. On the same soundtrack album. Same producer. A cover version of the previous/next artist. Songs have the same name. Or anything glaringly obvious or deliciously obscure as you can find! Hope you enjoy the challenge and look forward to seeing the unexpected places this journey might take you! I'll be back to our scheduled prompts next month. Have fun and be good to each other.
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Day 28

Auf Der Maur - Followed The Waves

youtu.be/K4LObO91WTA?...

(Melissa Auf Der Maur was briefly in The Smashing Pumpkins)

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November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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forever dreaming
of learning
the rhythms
to make you hum

#vss365
#learning
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Day 27

Smashing Pumpkins - Never Let Me Down Again

youtu.be/dfOOtrxrDpM?...

(Depeche Mode cover)

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November 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Day 26

Depeche Mode - Home

youtu.be/DZHs-SRJbzU?si…

(Erasure's Vince Clarke was an original member of Depeche Mode)#DavidsMonthOfMusicic
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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darling just be yourself
and you will always be
my most sordid
yet most sacred poetry

#pennedreveries
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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each cadence
#timed
to perfection

exquisite anticipation
heavy
in each pregnant pause

the luscious lilting
binding
syllable to syllable

succumbing once more
to sound
and stirring

compelled by you
my beautiful poetess
reciting reveries

drown me in your verse again

#vss365
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Day 25

Erasure - Take A Chance On Me

youtu.be/L-d4J3YUQmU?...

(cover of the Abba song)

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November 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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earnestly

i dedicate another verse to you

you know how many times
you've been my muse

how many times
i've penned my adoration

maybe i should simply tell you
exactly how much i fancy you

#pennedreveries
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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A reading...
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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the words
you choose
for the fervour
you feel
will never not be
relevant to my interests

the potential
of your arcane disclosure
stokes my passions
like nothing else

like no one else

just imagine
held in the tenderest embrace
what would happen
if
we
kissed

#vss365
#relevant
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Day 24

Abba - I'm A Marionette

youtu.be/a0WMVEUb3FE?...

(this song was covered by Ghost)

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November 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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#Amatory
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#pennedreveries
poetry in motion truth through intimacy the cadence of your hips the lilting lyric the grace of your sex you are exactly the right kind of beautiful light and shadow rhythm and stillness make love to me fuck me compose epics with entwining limbs and insatiable lips then hold me in eternal epilogue closer tighter sublime wordlessness in the wake of every rapture
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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were it #achievable
by will alone
i would lend sound
to your every silent sentiment

maybe
it's that your voice
echoes my own
that i hear you
with such aching clarity

the artist
that made me muse

the dreamer
that envisioned me lover

speak darling
i am always listening

#vss365
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Day 33

Ghost - Lachryma

youtu.be/DLG9oTH-ZbQ?...

(Peter Gabriel was in Genesis and Ghost covered [an albeit post-Gabriel] Genesis song Jesus He Knows Me)

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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in smiles
and light

in discordant beats

in dreams that slip from me
upon waking

in reveries i'll never not recall

in quiet miracles
and abstract faith

in nameless senses

in the inexplicable certainties

how else
are we #measurable

how else can i tell you
how much

#vss365
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Day 22

Peter Gabriel (ft. Kate Bush) - Don't Give Up

youtu.be/VjEq-r2agqc?...

(features Kate Bush)

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November 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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what do you need from me?

more confessions?
i am yours to devour
should you desire

#specific details?
of every reverie
of us entwined?
you need only ask

how can i fuel
your already exquisite flame?
until every star
is fervently jealous
of but a fraction
of your light

#vss365
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Day 21

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

youtu.be/UXzx--YefD8?...

(Placebo covered Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill)

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November 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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felt deepest

held dearest

the warmest memories
are of embraces
we only dreamed

it's you

you know it's you

#pennedreveries
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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plan of action:

1. mull over the prompt
2. compose a poem
3. find new words for a lingering sentiment
4. hold nothing back
5. check word count
6. post
7. make her smile (hopefully)

#vss365
#action
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Day 20

Placebo (feat. David Bowie) - Without You I'm Nothing

youtu.be/c14qMbmP9eg?...

(David Bowie was the previous day's artist)

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November 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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blissed
a fleeting moment

there
then gone

an image of us
seared
yet ephemeral

sublime

a word or two away

#pennedreveries
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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the limbs
bend towards the light

the light
bends to your will

i have just as much option

i am this
because you are this too

inevitably inextricable

rains fall

stars burn

and i long for you to hold me

#vss365
#option
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Day 19

David Bowie - I'm Deranged

youtu.be/yF7M0D48MBE?...

(sung on the previous song)

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November 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM