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He stared down at me
from the billboard,
leaning against the
“Little Bastard”.
Beautiful and mystical;
I imagined he would
lay eyes on me
and fall.
I pleaded "don’t go",
we will picnic on Mulholland,
pate and chardonnay.
timeless and immortal,
not one photo stained with tears.
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I love it. It fits my taste entirely. It's not too long, not too short either. It has it's own melody, I like it, i like it very much.
Keep up 
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I pleaded "don’t go",
we will picnic on Mulholland,
pate and chardonnay. --> shouldn't you keep the quotes until the end of the stanza? (unless that's some device I'm missing or something... )
loved the content and writing. simple, poignant and relate-able. but I don't have any clue what the Little Bastard part is all about... maybe it's some brit cultural reference? anyway thanks for sharing dear!
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(05-11-2013, 07:17 AM)justcloudy Wrote: I pleaded "don’t go",
we will picnic on Mulholland,
pate and chardonnay. --> shouldn't you keep the quotes until the end of the stanza? (unless that's some device I'm missing or something... )
loved the content and writing. simple, poignant and relate-able. but I don't have any clue what the Little Bastard part is all about... maybe it's some brit cultural reference? anyway thanks for sharing dear!
Cloudy, the Little Bastard is what James Dean called his Porsche 550 Spyder that he crashed and died in. I'm not British but red, white, and blue through and through. I prefer to leave the quoted words as is, but appreciate your idea on that. Thank you for reading and commenting dear.
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James Dean liked The Little Prince too. Am I fated to make endlessly indirect and irrelevant connections? Or...?
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haha, forgive me, guess it's just a general cultural reference that I missed, can't blame it on my nationality this time, damn. ;p
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(05-11-2013, 07:34 AM)rowens Wrote: James Dean liked The Little Prince too. Am I fated to make endlessly indirect and irrelevant connections? Or...?
rowens, you have sent me googling but I failed, come on back and clarify this for me. Please don't leave me hanging on this riddle about the Little Prince. Don't make me feel silly either, that happens enough, ;-).
It's a French book. The Little Prince used to have good translations, now it doesn't. James Dean loved it. If you don't know French, I barely do, and only in emergencies, find the Woods translation from the '40s I think. It was officially out-of-print, but the Weekly Reader, remember that?, or some form of school publication still had a Scholastic printing of it, my younger sister showed me a couple years ago....Or find a used copy. Or read it online. The Woods version, if not French. Saint-Exupery.
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lovely book. a kiddy book well beyond the scope of most adult minds. I've read it in french. maybe that makes up for my lack of knowledge of James Dean and his cars. ;p
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(05-11-2013, 07:53 AM)rowens Wrote: It's a French book. The Little Prince used to have good translations, now it doesn't. James Dean loved it. If you don't know French, I barely do, and only in emergencies, find the Woods translation from the '40s I think. It was officially out-of-print, but the Weekly Reader, remember that?, or some form of school publication still had a Scholastic printing of it, my younger sister showed me a couple years ago....Or find a used copy. Or read it online. The Woods version, if not French. Saint-Exupery.
I will definitely find this and give it a look, I expect I will be able to find it online. I did read a bit about it in Wiki. I was not aware that there was a connection to James Dean. Thanks, rowens.
(05-11-2013, 07:55 AM)justcloudy Wrote: lovely book. a kiddy book well beyond the scope of most adult minds. I've read it in french. maybe that makes up for my lack of knowledge of James Dean and his cars. ;p
Definitely!
The first version I read, a long time ago, was in English. The Woods version is kind of awkward in its wording, but more genuine, I feel. Since I live most of my life in English.
This line:
"The world is beautiful because of a flower that cannot be seen."
My favorite line. I even like it better than the French original.
But I have been noted before as the king of awkward situations. So I demand that that line doesn't get any better any other way.
The stars are beautiful...because of a flower that cannot be seen.
I forgot the context.
That's the line.
I've been on Earth too long. The Little Prince was an alien, kind of.
As for the poem, maybe it's a collective unconscious thing. Like your other poem that reminded me of that book. The last line about tears, or no tears. That's kind of in the book too.
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(05-11-2013, 08:10 AM)rowens Wrote: The first version I read, a long time ago, was in English. The Woods version is kind of awkward in its wording, but more genuine, I feel. Since I live most of my life in English.
This line:
"The world is beautiful because of a flower that cannot be seen."
My favorite line. I even like it better than the French original.
But I have been noted before as the king of awkward situations. So I demand that that line doesn't get any better any other way.
The stars are beautiful...because of a flower that cannot be seen.
I forgot the context.
That's the line.
I've been on Earth too long. The Little Prince was an alien, kind of.
As for the poem, maybe it's a collective unconscious thing. Like your other poem that reminded me of that book. The last line about tears, or no tears. That's kind of in the book too.
I am very moved by the line you have quoted from the book. So incredibly beautiful, I am looking forward to reading The Little Prince.
It sounds amazing.
If I wasn't drunk, I would never have screwed up the line. I used to read the whole book within about 30 minutes, then walk through open fields, no power lines obscuring, and look at the stars.
The very first poem I ever put on this site makes reference to that line.
But all the stuff we screw up when we're drunk becomes more important after we've had to fix it.
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(05-11-2013, 09:17 AM)rowens Wrote: If I wasn't drunk, I would never have screwed up the line. I used to read the whole book within about 30 minutes, then walk through open fields, no power lines obscuring, and look at the stars.
The very first poem I ever put on this site makes reference to that line.
But all the stuff we screw up when we're drunk becomes more important after we've had to fix it.
I must find that poem to find how you have integrated the reference to that gem, do you remember your title?
It's one of my simple angry, loving poems to my muse that causes my mania. I'm wasting space on your poem's thread. But it's friday night in America, and it happens. And you're asking.
Food Stamps. It's called that.
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(05-11-2013, 09:54 AM)rowens Wrote: It's one of my simple angry, loving poems to my muse that causes my mania. I'm wasting space on your poem's thread. But it's friday night in America, and it happens. And you're asking.
Food Stamps. It's called that.
it's Friday night, we can use our threads as we see fit (or not)
;-). Thanks for the title!
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