A couple of people have decried Amanda Bloom's botanically incorrect lyric to "The Rose," but, in truth, while I realize roses seldom, if ever grow from seeds and usually survive snow, that bit of poetic license has never bothered me any more than do lyrics about "feeling" things "from the heart" -- which we all know is not the part of the body wherein emotions lie, either.

And, Teresa, if anyone wants to nit-pick about "The Rose," the last verse ends:

Just remember, in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snowS, (rhymes with "rose,")
LIES the seed that, with the sun's love,
In the spring becomes the rose.
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[[ McGrath of Harlow -

"songs she brang to me .." "Bring" for "brought" is common enough in quite a lot of dialects. And pronouncing "bring" as "brang" is not such an unusual way of doing it in some places. We don't always notice that kind of thing when it isn't written down.]]

Hey, that line irked me like chalk on a blackboard the first time I heard it. And I don't think I've actually ever seen it written.   
Harry Belafonte sings the lines:
"Songs she sang to me,
Songs she brought to me,
Words that rang for me,
Rhymes that sprang from me ... "

And it sounds just fine. Far better than the way Neil wrote and sings it.

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[[GUEST - 03 Feb 05 -
I once saw on Country music tv a guy who was quite good and i was enjoying the song till he took it too far and sang;
"I've a burning, yearning, churning, deep inside o'me" ...]]

That really does sound like he was singing Cole Porter's "Night and Day" or some spin-off from it.
"Night and day, under the hide of me,
There's an oh, such a hungry yearning, burning inside of me ... "

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[[GUEST,Joe_F - 4 Feb 05-

Sometimes, a word that is not poetic diction can be not only tolerable but an improvement in the poetry. An example, IMO, is in "Angel Band":

I hear the noise of wings. ... ]]

For what it's worth, the version of that "Angel Band" lyric I like best is "I hear the rush of wings."

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[[YorkshireYankee - 5 Feb 05

Come to your life like a warrior/Nothing will bore ya is from Cris Williamson's "Song of the Soul". And I have to agree, it is a jarring couplet in an otherwise glorious song. But it can (with the right delivery) add a bit of humor to a song about (IMHO) getting the most out of life by not always playing it safe...

Come to think of it, Cris Williams was certainly not "playing it safe" by using those lines, so in a strange way, I guess it's appropriate (whether or not that was her conscious intention).]]

Poor Chris!   If you listen to her recording of the song, it's really not all that forced a rhyme. She doesn't enunciate "warrioR." Rather, she pretty much sings "Come to your life like a warriah, Nothing will bore ya ... ."
Still not the most eloquent rhyme in the world, but it does approximate how an American might normally pronounce both "warrior" and "you," and the rhyme does work that way.

What made the lyric seem really awful was my seeing lyric sheets printed up that had the lines as "Come to your life like a warrior; nothing will bore yer ... "   Aarrgghh!

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