Re: Denim Blue Eyes
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
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> George J. Dance wrote: > >> Will-Dockery wrote: >> >>> 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 that all his poems be unpublished, people would still be able to read it.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. >> >> 😏 > > > I missed this earlier, Will; thanks for keeping the thread alive. > "Denim Blue fading up to the sky ..." - that is the most likely > source for him. https://youtu.be/NMucaQXUUuc?is=AXT7JMmxuyJG5kBH Exactly. 😏 View the attachments for this post at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=710336624#710336624 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