| = willy | Christopher Thripp [09.Mar.09 16:39] |
| nicely worded willy ...imaginative as always. | |
| = A song by The Beach Boys... | John Willy Kopperud [09.Mar.09 20:33] |
| ...that holds an almost unfathomable beauty, Chris. Thanks a lot for your kind comment! Cheers from Willy | |
| = niceeeeeeeee | Marius Surleac [09.Mar.09 22:47] |
| Well done Willy. A great nice poem as we are used to, which is well sustained by the visual effect. The last stanza - a splendour and very meaningful, expressionist as well. Thank you for sharing to us this history of music so beautiful and originally presented. P.S. I have one short question: The statue in the picture represents Don Quijote? - it looks like that Cheers my friend! | |
| = Just an impulse, Marius... | John Willy Kopperud [10.Mar.09 10:42] |
| ...since that sculpture was downloaded on my machine as a photo. It stands right outside the shopping center in the suburb where I work at a youth club two nights a week. You're right, it is Don Quixote on Rosinante, sculptured by Fritz Rød from that very suburb. I'm not sure, though, if it was adequate to use that photo, since there is no direct link between the poem and the sculpture. Thanks a lot for your generous comment, anyway! Cheers from Willy | |
| = castle | Horia Mocanu [17.Mar.09 21:14] |
| to keep a castle of sand standing for so many years is a performance, even for a poet :) nice. music must have helped. | |
| = A symbol of art itself, Horia... | John Willy Kopperud [17.Mar.09 21:46] |
| ...and art is a product of the human soul.Therefore it's fragile. Nevertheless, Brian's castle of sand keeps standing, engraved upon my heart. Thanks a lot for your comment. Cheers from Willy | |
| = gunsel djemal | Gunsel DJEMAL [21.Mar.09 19:55] |
| Hi Willy Love this poem. Great. Cheers | |
| = Thanks a lot, Gunsel... | John Willy Kopperud [22.Mar.09 19:24] |
| ...I perceive Good Vibrations from these comments! Cheers from Willy | |
| = gunsel djemal | Gunsel DJEMAL [04.Apr.09 21:36] |
| you are welcome Willy, ...you are the master. CHEERS! | |
| = are they | Simona Sumanaru [02.Apr.09 00:58] |
| Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch's "Good Vibrations", Willy? Just kidding. I can never understand these women (like Rhonda here) who feel a man should hide his tears. Still kidding... as I don't anything about the Rhonda in this story. Now, isn't it Willy that the initial appearance of the castle doesn't even matter anymore, if the memory of it "still holds it's splendor" for you?... I personally think one should grab all the good things that ever happened in their lives and preserve them ten times more powerfully beautiful in their memories. Nourishment for when they feel sadness lurking. I liked this poem. It is positive. | |
| = That's an entertaining comment, Simona! | John Willy Kopperud [02.Apr.09 10:29] |
| Here and there I spread clues to a number of titles around in these "History of Music" poems. In the line you refer to you get the obvious clue to another great Beach Boy hit - Good Vibrations - , "Help Me Rhonda, which is a Beach Boy track from about 64 and "Crying in the Rain" by Everly Brothers. Rhonda here is supposed to help me "hide the tears of joy". Thus she serves as a function of the outdated view on men's feelings that is present in a lot of these early pop and rock'n'roll lyrics. Sadly also in a lot of contemporary pop lyrics, I'll have to add. Tears? From me you'll get tars and laughter in all kinds of weather, Simona...just can't hide it! Thank you very nuch for appreciating the positve mode here! Cheers from Willy | |
| = why fears for tears | Simona Sumanaru [03.Apr.09 13:39] |
| men and women are miracle carriers. let them cry, laugh, be alive and celebrate life together, not apart, not in the hiding :-) | |
| = I totally agree, Simona... | John Willy Kopperud [04.Apr.09 17:44] |
| ...though it's obvious that a lot of pop and rock'n'roll lyric writers do and did not! Cheers from Willy | |