Inspirations, the Stories Space Coffee House: If you're reading this it just might mean I'm back, sorta. If you're not reading this, well, congratulations.

Tough call between the kebabs and key lime tarts but I love key lime so I guess that's where I'll land.

Good morning. Still in a heat warning here. 33C with a humidex (how it feels with humidity factored in) around 40. Supposed to be rainy tomorrow and then cooler.

Toying with stories but progress is slow. Between work and life, writing gets short shrift much as I enjoy doing it.

Those bee cookies look pretty tasty Cora.

I have a cold, though it isn’t too bad. I was in bed most of yesterday, and while I will get up and around today, I’m still feeling a bit punk, as my Dad used to say.

Roland, I am so psyched about a female umpire! A female pitcher is next! In other baseball news, the Mets appear to suck yet again, and with the highest payroll in baseball. Heavy sigh.

Coffee please!

Good morning. We are well-endowed with goodies now that Cora is back. I will put on some Tobermory Grotto coffee to go with those. Maybe some David's Breakfast and Buddha's Blend for teas. Washed the pitchers and made fresh iced tea and lemonade. Sodas are stocked.

How goes it? Still steamy here and isn't improving much in the coming days, either.

Good morning, everyone!

I wanted to write a song the other day so I looked up songwriting to see if I could get tips. It differs from poetry, which is what I seem to gravitate towards. It's rather difficult and challenging. I think I'll put writing a song on the back burner and focus on other things. I can't pin down a memoir which is something I've wanted to write for a long while. So inspiration has yet to come to me for a story/flash fiction, which is what I'm best at. I'll think some more today. My mind is always running from one thing to another.

I hope everyone has a lovely day.

🌹Cora's Creations🌹 brings you these delicious treats

Sweet Beach Cookies

Mini Lemon Cheesecakes

Flower Sugar Cookies

Enjoy! 😊

Quote by Cora
It differs from poetry, which is what I seem to gravitate towards.

They are different but I think they also interact. Just look at my posts about Leonard Cohen in the poets poll thread. And it is not just him, other songwriters have also been published poets (the late Gord Downie of Canadian alt-rockers The Tragically Hip comes to mind). Most lyrics are poetry in form, but then also need to adapt to the flow of music, which is where the difference comes in. Great lyrics are usually also great poetry, and lyric poetry is a genre for a reason, but the reverse is not necessarily true.

And keep in mind that we often see ancient works as poems that were actually sung in their day. The Psalms come to mind. While there are hymns and other works that are settings of them, we often encounter many of them as readings, in spoken word rather than musical form. Greek lyric poetry is mostly like that, too.

I have contemplated songwriting as well but I am not sure how one writes lyrics without a tune and while I dearly love music, I am terrible at it from a performance standpoint. So I would likely have to take an existing melody and adapt to it unless I found someone more adept at music than I to write me a tune (though I have occasionally had tunes in my head for my poems). Someone else was musing about this in a thread somewhere on here recently as well.