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@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-12-26 22:13:58

An #earworm popping up in my brain lately. A poem I was made to memorize when I was 14. It re-emerges every couple years, for no reason I can figure. tbh, I usually only remember verbatim the first few lines or so, and have to look it up again. It’s one of those things, like advertising jingles from many years ago, that have lodged in my memory. 🎶You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush y…

Opportunity, a poem by Edward Rowland Sill —1841-1887

This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: —
There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;
And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged
A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords
Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince’s banner
Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes.

A craven hung along the battle’s edge,
And thought, “Had I a sword of keener steel —
That blue blade that the king’s son bears, — but this
Blunt thing!” — he snapt and …
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-11-15 04:32:11

I’ve got John Williams’ #DarthVader motif as an #earworm tonight.
Dun dun dun dunhta dun, dunhta dun. DUN DUN DUN DUNHTA DUN, DUNHTA DUN…

@davej@dice.camp
2025-10-31 18:07:37

It’s been a little bit since I’ve posted a #music link, so… this is the #earworm that’s been keeping me awake for the last couple of nights.
Great song, but my brain hates me.
WARNING: video contains serious strobing.