Re: Denim Blue Eyes
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
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> George J. Dance wrote: > >> Will Dockery wrote: >> >>> General Zod wrote: >>> Will Dockery wrote: >>> >>>> [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>> http://picosong.com/XvAZ/ >>>> >>>> (Defunct link) >>>> >>>> I remember this one well, a Jim Senetto classic. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Sadly the site is defunct..... >>> >>> "...picosong is shut down. >>> We provided a three-month notice starting on July 20, 2019. All files are now permanently deleted. Looking for alternatives? Check out clyp, Mixcloud, Soundcloud, or Bandcamp! >>> >>> We started in 2010 as a service for musicians to share personal short clips.. Operated by volunteers over the past nine years, we kept this site as simple and ad-free as possible. Today, there are better alternatives for musicians to share their ideas, so picosong will be closing. >>> We are grateful to all of our users for your support over these years. Thank you for using picosong! >>> >>> picosong staff" >> >> >> Too bad, this wS one of Jim Senetto's best poems, "Denim Blue Eyes." > > > Too bad. If he'd submitted it to PPB, *and* not demanded years later > that all his poems be unpublished, people would still be able to read it. > > At least we can discuss the title, which (I'd guess based on experience > with his poetry) is often the best line of the poem, anyway. > > "Denim blue eyes" is a great term, because it performs double duty: > First, it's an exact colour; everyone has seen denim, and has a > concrete memory of what color "denim blue" is. Second, "denim" > has connotations; it suggests a person who wears denim, a > young man (or more likely a young woman) of the mid-20th century, > very much like a character in several of your own poems. > > The color is in my magnum opus of col0rs, Penny, or Penny's Hat; but up until > today it was called only "Denim" Thanks to the beauty of electronic > publication, I was able to change that to "Denim Blue" almost > immediately. I think it results in a much better line. > > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2009/12/betty-s-4.html Again, agreed. This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=658993152#658993152 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655