Re: Denim Blue Eyes
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
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> HarryLime wrote: > >> George J. Dance wrote: >> >>> Will-Dockery wrote: >>> >>>> General Zod wrote: >>>> Will Dockery wrote: >>>> >>>>> [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>> http://picosong.com/XvAZ/ >>>>> >>>>> I remember this one well, great song Jimmy. >>>>> >>>>> :D >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 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 that all his poems be unpublished, people would still be able to read it.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. >> >> <spamsnip> > > > > Dunce steals from Senetto... again. While Jim Senetto steals from Cat Stevens, who first used "denim blue" in 1973. 😏 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