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The One-Line Lyric Challenge

by Anni Pon

Rated: 13+ · Book · Activity · #2293321

A musically-inspired challenge with writing prompts posted twice a month. Prizes included!

The One-Line Lyric Challenge has been updated -- please read below!

Welcome to the One-Line Lyric Challenge!

Every month, I will post two songs: One with a lyric prompt (start of the month) and one as a song prompt (middle of the month).
Entries will be due at the end of the month for either prompt.

Lyric Prompt: Write a poem or story and include the prompted lyric line somewhere in your work, word for word. It's up to you how you want to incorporate the line. Please bold the line to make it easier for me to find. It's OK if your work is loosely inspired by the song, but try not to make it too similar or copy the song. If you don't like the provided lyric prompt, you can pick a different line from the lyrics to incorporate (only one line).

Song Prompt: Write a poem or story inspired by the song. You do not need to include any lyrics directly, and in some cases there may not be any lyrics. Just write whatever the music or lyrics inspires.

Please link back to the challenge somewhere in your entry using {item:lyric} and post your entry as a link in the comments here.

The Prizes: 5K GPs, a merit badge of my choosing, plus a guaranteed review of your entry.
If you enter both prompts that month, you will get double the prizes!

Feel free to listen and comment on the music or other people's entries, even if you don't plan to enter the challenge! There may be gift points in store for people who are active in the comments or share / promote the challenge.

2023 Quill Nominee

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SAD Holiday Potato

Dec 16, 2024 at 4:52pm
In response to "Timekeeper"

Sending my entry for the song prompt: "Change the Record"

1 Like

Solace.Bring

Dec 16, 2024 at 2:12am
In response to "Timekeeper"

Time in Hurry

Time, you fleeting ghost, almost like a silent foe.
Your relentless rush, inspires my song of woe.
"Slow down," I whisper, “let the moments stay;
calm my unease, no need to hurry.”

Time, what you are a tempest! leaving tatters on life’s sails
and with each tick-tock, I can feel your whipping gales.
Your unseen powers surely mark those without might,
buffeting yesterdays and todays and my echoes.

I long for your patience, your tender embrace,
Will I can find peace and a quieter pace?
Asking you to listen heartbeats touched with angst.
“Slow down,” it’s simple as that.

~ ~ ~
12 lines
One-Line Lyric Challenge, song prompt: "Timekeeper" by Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

[Visit the entry for more...]

1 Like

Anni Pon

Dec 13, 2024 at 6:13pm
In response to "Mykonos"

Santeven Quokklaus It is! Thanks for entering, prizes and reviews will be sent out at the end of the month.

Santeven Quokklaus

Dec 13, 2024 at 6:03am
In response to "Mykonos"

"Followed"

Hope it's okay...

1 Like

Solace.Bring

Dec 9, 2024 at 8:03pm
In response to "Mykonos"

15 lines

One-Line Lyric Challenge, Lyric prompt: Footsteps follow from “Mykonos” by Fleet Foxes

"Long March"

1 Like

Solace.Bring

Nov 19, 2024 at 4:47am
In response to "I Me Mine"

One-Line Lyric Challenge, song prompt: "I Me Mine" by the Beatles

"Numero Uno"

1 Like

Solace.Bring

Nov 8, 2024 at 12:54am
In response to "Karma Police"

One-Line Lyric Challenge, lyric prompt: “he’s like a detuned radio” from Karma Police by Radiohead

"Fluctuation"

1 Like

Solace.Bring

Oct 19, 2024 at 2:24am
In response to "Do You Believe"

Inspired by "Do You Believe" by Here Come the Mummies ...

Let Magic Lead

There are certain things that can’t be explained,
Things so bizarre that can blow your mind.
They come from a place filled with magic,
And to take them lightly would be purely tragic.

Some are superstitious, some don’t care,
And some, like you, have suspicions keen.
I can’t give you reasons, I will only say
that what you believe will lead your way.

So don’t give up; let the magic come ‘round,
And get swept up in its haunting powers.
If you believe, and I think you might --
Reach out, grab hold, and hang on tight.

~ ~ ~
12 lines
One-Line-Lyric Challenge, song prompt: "Do You Believe" by Here Come the Mummies

[Visit the entry for more...]

2 Like

Solace.Bring

Oct 5, 2024 at 11:01am
In response to "Undun"

One-Line-Lyric Challenge, lyric prompt: It was too late from "Undun" by The Guess Who

I Lost

I wanted to sing forever,
but sadly, I lost my sweet voice.
Turned out, it was too late.
Luck just wouldn’t wait,
So I was left with no choice.

I wished to dance forever
but lost my dancing shoes.
Searched for them everywhere
but no one seemed to care.
That’s typical, when you lose.

I hoped to speak with finesse,
touch people’s hearts with a word.
But thoughts became hazy;
drive faded to lazy
and fluttered away like a bird.

So I gave up on my efforts;
none would turn out to come true.

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1 Like

AnotherDreamer

Oct 2, 2024 at 12:04pm
In response to "Undun"

STATIC

She's Come Undone

(18+)
The un thought out plan
#2327865 by AnotherDreamer

1 Like

December 15, 2024 at 10:46pm

#1081199

Timekeeper

I find this song fitting as we approach the end of another year.

The coming year is a complete unknown. I don't know where I'll be living or working just a couple of months from now.
I don't know what's going to happen politically to my country. I don't know what's going to happen financially.

I don't know what life I'll be living, but it won't be this one.
Which might not be such a bad thing...

Guess I'll have to ask the timekeeper.

Song Prompt: "Timekeeper" by Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

Lyrics: ▼

Although lyrics are provided, this is a song prompt so you don't have to incorporate any line.

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