Tuesday, March 17, 2009

I'll show you my heart in six different ways


                                                          The picture                       
                                                         
It was really hard for me to find a picture that can express myself. I think this one is most suitable one. A young old-fashioned girl, who daydreams a lot about her own black and white world and looks sad most of the time. Just like me...

The poem

''Ballad of the moon'' by Federico Garcia Lorca

The moon came into the forge
in her bustle of flowering nard.
The little boy stares at her, stares.
The boy is staring hard.
In the shaken air
the moon moves her arms,
and shows lubricious and pure
her breasts of hard tin.
''Moon, moon, moon, run!
If the gypsies come,
they will use your heart
to make white necklaces and rings''
''Let me dance, my little one. 
When the gypsies come,
they'll find you on the anvil
with your lively eyes closed tight.
''Moon, moon, moon, run!
I can feel their horses come''
''Let me be, my little one,
don't step one me, all starched and white!''

Closer comes the horseman,
drumming on the plain.
The boy is in the forge,
his eyes are closed.
Through the olive grove
come the gypsies, dream and bronze,
their heads held high,
their hooded eyes.

Oh, how the night owl calls,
calling, calling from its tree!
The moon is climbing through the sky
with the child by the hand
They are crying in the forge,
all the gypsies shouting, crying.
The air is viewing all, views all.
The air is at the viewing.

I never were an avid poetry reader but it was impossible for me not to notice and love this little poem...

The song

                                         ''In dreams'' by Roy Orbison.

Roy Orbison had the dreamiest voice and this particular song of his is out of this world. Probably the most beautiful, loving and nostalgic song ever written and performed.
You should definitely listen to it. All of you! And if you can't get enough of it, I recommend watching blue velvet...

The quote

''Why was I born with so many contemporaries?''
Oscar Wilde

The item of clothing

My dark grey hat that I bought from a men's store or my vintage, black, high-waisted mini-skirt I got from my mom's old closet. Unfortunately, I haven't got a photo of them so unleash your imagination...

The place

An old, small, shady diner perhaps with a jukebox playing songs by Tom Waits. Me wearing my favorite dark grey hat, drinking a huge cup of hot, black filter coffee and watching the rain outside from a small foggy window.

The Disney princess

Uhmm that's a tough one. I'll pick Snow White because ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' was the first movie that I ever saw and it affected me a lot (in a good way I suppose...)

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That was a fun tag. Thanks Stella For Star


14 raindrops:

  1. καλα,το ποιημα με τουσ τζιπσισ ειναι φοβερο!!! :D εχω μια κλιση στο τζιπσικο, γ αυτο ενθουσιαστηκα..!:p
    και η ολη αναρτηση εννοειται,ειναι υπεροχη οπωσ παντα :)
    τωρα φοβαμαι οτι θα φανω χαζη, αλλα οταν λεσ να ολοκληρωσω το Tag εννοεισ να κανω οτι κι εσυ,ετσι? να βαλω μια εικονα και να γραψω τα υπολοιπα..? (καλα, εγω αυτο θα κανω κι οτι βγει!:p)
    σ ευχαριστω παντωσ για τα καλα σου λογια! ισωσ δεν ειναι δυσκολο να βρεισ μια ταρατσα, ισωσ μαλιστα να ναι κατω απο τη μυτη σου(ή πιο σωστα, πανω απ τη μυτη σου:p) κι εσυ να μην την εχεισ δει ;) καπωσ ετσι εγινε κι με μασ βσκ :)

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  2. That is probably the loveliest tag I've read so far! I can really envision you in the diner and wearing your grey hat.

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  3. Oh this is lovely! I love that photograph!

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  4. i love oscar wilde's quotes! they're so cheeky

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  5. I was also tagged with this thing. I'm gonna make the post some time soon i think...
    Gosh your comment made me so, so happy! You are too cute, it really brightened my day. (And yes, i only post my own photos.)
    I love that photo. Oh how i wish i was a flapper! Oscar Wild said so many smart, funny things, i think i will cite him in my post too. :)

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  6. Wow, what wonderful answers... I particularly love your "place." I can just imagine it. Why is sadness so much more poetic than being uncomplicatedly happy?? Who knows! ^^ Glad you like my dress, I hadn't even noticed the Sleeping Beauty resemblance until you pointed it out! Although, being Merryweather at heart, I should have been rooting for the blue... ! xxx

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  7. Heheheh lovely!! xD

    I totally want to be at that place you described!

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  8. i love the poem...its soo pretty.

    alicexinwonderland.blogspot.com

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  9. I arrived here from Polyvore and I couldn't resist read this post... How many correspondences between those six different ways of your heart... Sublime!

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  10. "A young old-fashioned girl, who daydreams a lot about her own black and white world and looks sad most of the time. Just like me..."

    Wow, you just described me perfectly there. It's almost scary how much we are alike...
    And to answer your question, if you are talking about the poem about masks, I did indeed write it myself. But the other poem about me was from Angela, owner of Rags and Scribbles, a very inspirational blog.
    xoxo,
    Micaela

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  11. fabulous choices!just lovely

    marie

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  12. i really like that image of the dingy diner with tom waits on the jukebox. perfect. i can imagine you sitting outside on the doorstep in a big hooded coat, smoking a cigarette in the drizzly rain.
    /#2

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