A Coke can floats,
not yet full enough to sink
fat Vuitton chests are heaved onto
little skiffs
to be taken to her ship.
I listen closely to the Coke can
kissing the quay stone
tink, tink-tink
*
Her entourage exit the Marriott,
alight so quietly,
like sunrise
in a red dress
I’m surprised how tall she is
and how slender
the eloquence
of each soft step she takes
is in the waves, on the waves
today she articulates
her own fate,
her nation’s
we listen closely.
*
After they leave
I sit down with a Guinness
on the terrace, thinking
I light a Camel, inhale
exhale thoughts of Solomon
of gold stocks.
If she gets back
she’ll come back a rock star,
minimum, maybe a metaphor
A dancer on the water,
the morning light in song,
a moment in this harbour,
the hope of living on
Nuff Respec to Claude Lorrain - Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
14 comments:
Just perfect. Bravo!
beautiful introduction for a forum on mythology and pop culture filou.
It's interesting to notice how well SHE interacts with a mixture of brands rather I should say, interesting how your creative imagination get away with the most audacious casting for a multi brands commercial.
Official soundtrack from the Queen of Sheba's wardrobe
Oh Filou, to share a Guinness and a Camel (my favourite breakfast) with you while watching treasure laden ships pull away in the morning light...
It's all there, absolutely brilliant visual creation. And I'm talking about the words, but the picture is very good too.
Bling bling? Nah, just tink, tink tink.
I love this picture, but I'm curiously unoffended by what File's done to it! Probably because the poem is really good.
Putain ça penche, indeed! We will share that breakfast together one of these days O, probably right about the time we have a stake in the treasure on those ships. I am patient.
Thanks Gerry (and Hi!) and cher G, yes, it's a bit like one of MoTM's lectures isn't it?
Glad it didn't offend you Zeph, I love the painting too and certainly wasn't trying to disrespect it. The opposite, I thought that the longevity of fame of the Queen of Sheba might be mirrored in the fame of Lorrain/Gellee's light on water, how fragments might remain even when the whole is lost...
btw, this was a continuation of the line of thought inspired by the Mills @ Billy's place, ta as always
" We will share that breakfast together one of these days "
inch'Allah!
You, me, a vat of Guinnes and the Queen of Sheba... what could go wrong, eh?
)) Bring it on!
Well, it's nice to see that poster poems has a ripple effect. As good a poem of yours as I've seen, file. Delicately handled balance of vectors pulling off in different directions.
Very nice.
Here's another contribution to the soundtrack.
Thanks Billy, I think you'll find PP has more nipples than an Ephesian Artemis, oh sorry ripples, well them too
Great sounds munni, perfectly matches the mellow vibe here this morning
I'm not au fait with the poster/poems thing so just took this as it was.
Beautiful painting, loved the poem - they fit like a glove.
Not sure about the breakfast thing though - I like a camel but couldn't eat a whole one!
Just joking, I well remember when smoking camels was the coolest thing. Mind you, my friend has just built a smoker and he'd struggle to fit a camel in! Boom boom.
cheers mimi, tell your friend to dry his camel first, it should shrink
File. A great poem. I like the way you open the scene with the focus on the can, it's simple but brilliant the "tink, tink-tink" - I could see it and hear it and feel the waves hitting the harbour walls.
I liked this line too:
"she’ll come back a rock star,
minimum, maybe a metaphor"
Reflects that feeling which you get sometimes when you watch someone almost-famous and know that you've caught them a moment in time which will soon be overshadowed by their future greatness, but you'll always remember it.
There is a sadness in the use of the word "metaphor" and your last line - "hope of living on" - that this person is destined to become a symbol and to be owned by others, to lose their self like so many icons before. Tragic figures, who almost seem destined to be so.
Anyway lalala... nice weather we're having...
glad you liked it Pinkish, many thanks for your comments
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