tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post2998564309238360867..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Movies & Poetry: "A Film from the Sixties"Frescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-8763858955071627162010-04-22T10:16:21.546-05:002010-04-22T10:16:21.546-05:00P.S. And "Giddings Garden"---it's li...P.S. And "Giddings Garden"---it's like a T. S. Eliot title, eh?Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-12767360426333439362010-04-22T10:15:39.992-05:002010-04-22T10:15:39.992-05:00Wonderful, Nancy/Lill!
So much in it.
I love how ...Wonderful, Nancy/Lill!<br />So much in it.<br /><br />I love how you tell the plants' backstory --brought on a plane, especially---I remember my mother smuggling clippings of plants home from Europe. <br /><br />Nice job showing the balance of human news with the news of the weather... <br />I find it weirdly comforting--putting things in perspective, anyway--to remember that the planet will be fine, whether we are here or not.<br /><br />This is almost a poem about movies, since there's a plant named "Yellow Submarine."<br /><br />Did you know there is a Captain Kirk hosta?<br />It is green and gold, like his two uniform tops.<br />I tried to order one last year, but they were SOLD OUT!<br /><br />Thanks for adding to my poetry month.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-82682386586982938892010-04-21T21:06:01.794-05:002010-04-21T21:06:01.794-05:00In honor of your encouragement in Poetry Month:
...In honor of your encouragement in Poetry Month:<br /><br /><br />Giddings Garden News<br />April 21, 2010<br /><br />It did not frost last night.<br />Fiddleheads the workman crushed underfoot<br />are still unfurling.<br />Last year’s violas reseeded, unintentional gardening triumph,<br />yielding yellow and cornflower-blue blooms in the brown spring garden.<br />Red tulips the non-gardening former owner neglected<br />are blooming for the first time in years.<br />Lungwort ML carried on the plane in a plastic bag<br />Shows tiny pastel blue and pink bells.<br /><br />The strawberry plants were green all winter.<br />The “Yellow Submarine” has new leaves, <br />and the river birch.<br />Giant allium, Eli’s totem plant, are raising their fat, single bud<br />to be ready to celebrate his luck in May.<br />Lily of the valley, spiderwort, Jacob’s Ladder, coral bells, <br />penstemon – all are back, emerging where only weeds grew<br />two springs before.<br /><br />The stock market is down, it is up,<br />people lose their homes, or do not,<br />a gang-banger’s bullet misses, or it hits,<br />a politician steals this or that city blind, <br />or this or that state, or this or that country,<br />people work hard to destroy, not to cultivate,<br />those headlines I will read later,<br />with eyes too dry, no water for those seeds.<br />Now I am reading the garden news:<br />Last night it did not frost.<br /><br /><br />Nancy L. WadeLillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-12692471210603598822010-04-21T12:11:26.620-05:002010-04-21T12:11:26.620-05:00M & C: Right: smoking and sunglasses--very GQM...M & C: Right: smoking and sunglasses--very GQMF, but what kind of film editor is this?!? <br /><br />SPARKY: I have to admit that one of the few films I ever walked out of was Alain Renais' "Last Year at Marienbad."Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-46278158362696879052010-04-21T11:20:12.068-05:002010-04-21T11:20:12.068-05:00Is he really smoking that close to the film? Inch...Is he really smoking that close to the film? Inches away?<br /><br />That can't be wise.Clowncarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02219213001049223673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-67892535121148333302010-04-21T10:37:00.281-05:002010-04-21T10:37:00.281-05:00Oh, man. That is so funny. I belonged to a film gr...Oh, man. That is so funny. I belonged to a film group not too long, ago, had a crush on the guy who ran it who was WAY into the Nouvelle Vague. But, I'm afraid I'm with Gene Hackman's character on this (except for Agnes Varda).ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-11431176998243360332010-04-21T08:46:13.696-05:002010-04-21T08:46:13.696-05:00The bit about filming poets made me laugh out loud...The bit about filming poets made me laugh out loud - it's so spot on! <br /><br />I was thinking of AnTOINE Doinel while reading the poem, myself. <br /><br />Jean-Luc Godard (Jean-Luc Picard is way to close for coincidence. . . .) is one cool smoothy. I think it's appropriate to say he's a regular GQMF. <br />Makes me wonder if it's too late to start wearing sunglasses perpetually.Marzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05258262409718943594noreply@blogger.com