The poem is not about the song. The song came to me at the ending stanza. Great song nonetheless. I decided to use a line from it and in the title, but choose different music to accompany it.
You do some of your most evocative work when you mine very intimate details for the truths in them. The dream here creates a spell encompassing both a distance and an immediacy that's very compelling. I like especially the fine description of the girl and the making fun and subsequent rejection. It's funny how we find ourselves at this age with almost shimmering recollections of times like seventh grade. Reminds us there's still lots to learn. Well done AK!... and great song. The perfect vintage. :)
OOOh I so can relate to this poem. Know those dreams all too well and know that ghost that still haunts our deepest psyche and won't dissipate. That is what got me into trouble with Ice Princess. This is done with clear understanding and I so hate it when I am woke up for a wonderful dream. usually mine is my dad vacuuming the floor at midnight when he get home from work. lol
Nice how this softly and sympathetically recalls how missed opportunities haunt you from the past, no matter how inconsequential they may have seemed over the years. As with the poem, the romance of this is quite haunting (inevitably) and similar moments in my own life were alive to me come the end. Perhaps the paths we didn't take in life somehow take on their own life in the subconscious (in an obscure way), as if the mere thought of considering that path creates a dream world that exists there all the same as if we had lived it.
Reminds me of a line in the film "Citizen Kane" where, as an old man, the character Bernstein attests how it is surprising the things you remember.. (for aficionados I apologise for any mis-quoting) "I remember back in 1903 I saw a girl getting on the Jersey ferry. She was wearing a blue dress, and carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for a second. She didn't see me at all. But I don't think a month has passed since that day when I haven't thought about that girl..."
PS. I never cared much for Foreigner but this song was rather smooth and atmospheric. Suits the poem.
yes why is it we get woken at the best part of a dream but no one disturbed you in the middle of a nightmare... I like this... a very tongue in cheek piece bout regrets and life lessons.
You do some of your most evocative work when you mine very intimate details for the truths in them. The dream here creates a spell encompassing both a distance and an immediacy that's very compelling. I like especially the fine description of the girl and the making fun and subsequent rejection. It's funny how we find ourselves at this age with almost shimmering recollections of times like seventh grade. Reminds us there's still lots to learn. Well done AK!... and great song. The perfect vintage. :)
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