Bright and lonely faces

[asakiyume]

Yesterday The Writer's Almanac featured the poem "Summer Night," by Connie Wanek. I was transfixed by the first image:

The street lamp looks down;
it has dropped something
and spends the whole night
searching around its feet.

The light it has dropped illuminates its feet, but the street lamp sees only grass and asphalt and senses that this is not what it's searching for.


Street Lamp 2 by ANDYWPHOTO on Flickr.

Also yesterday, I saw a loneflower:



The outbuilding's roof has collapsed and one wall has crumbled, but the sentinel doesn't abandon the post. In time the loneflower will hang its head . . . it will be searching around its feet for something.

And yamamanama saw a performance of A Midsummer's Night Dream in which a player played the moon by wielding a cane. The moon with a cane. The moon, puttin' on the Ritz . . .



PS, and unrelated, but I love it, so: The Boy Who Cried Wolves

Comments

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

That is a lovely poem. Thanks for linking it. Though I feel for the streetlight, always looking and never finding what it lost...

Why was there a moon with a cane in A Midsummer's Night Dream? Or, better question: Why don't all productions of A Midsummer's Night Dream feature a moon with a cane?

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Towards the end, the characters put on a hilariously inept play, and the moon is played by someone with a lanthorn on a stick. Somebody else plays the wall between Pyramus and Thisbe. I want to say they were Philostrate and Helena respectively, but I'm probably wrong.

[sovay]

I want to say they were Philostrate and Helena respectively, but I'm probably wrong.

Robin Starveling the tailor plays Moonshine; the Wall is Snout the tinker.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay.

In the production I saw, Helena and Snarveling were played by the same person.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Also, your icon makes it look like I'm not replying to you.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I feel for the streetlight too, but maybe it's like meditation, and he gets some inward understanding eventually.... (and I like your better question!)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Love that lampshade! And the moon.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I like that all these things somehow go together, too.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Yes! The lone flower looks like a harvest moon.

[jamieduclavier.livejournal.com]

Oh, that image with the streetlight. Thank you for the link, I look forward to reading that poem tonight. <3

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I think you'll like it; the whole poem is quite lovely.

[jamieduclavier.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is. :)

It's ... almost like one of those poems that makes people think that poetry is hard until they sit down and look at it image for image. It reads like a painting, and I love that. It's something I'd like to achieve with my own poetry.

[coldhighmountai.livejournal.com]

Love that moon walking with a cane. Kind of song and dance moon.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like it--it was what came into my head when I thought of the moon with a cane (I suppose I could have imagined someone bent over and needing support, but that wasn't the direction my imagination took).

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

Well, the streetlight sees Nasruddin's back, as he's bent over looking for the key he lost on the unlighted street but he's looking for it here where the light is better.

And there's all the stuff that drops out of Nasruddin's pocket while he looks.

And somewhere next to the pole there are shiny things that urban trade rats have collected. Including Nasruddin's keys.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's an interesting addition to, or reinterpretation of, the Nasruddin story, isn't it!

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

Who drew the Boy Who Cried Wolves? Did you draw the Moon with the Cane? I loved them both!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The ninja girl drew The Boy Who Cried Wolves, and yeah, I drew the moon--I'm glad you like them!

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

I LOVE them. Love. I want them both on my desktop.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Feel free to download! I'll tell the ninja girl; she'll be pleased <3

[wuweibaby.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice!

[sovay]

The moon with a cane. The moon, puttin' on the Ritz . . .

That's great!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

I love the streetlight looking down, but that sunflower is looking up. Perhaps it's lost someone...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's looking for, not the sun, but the moon.

[wuweibaby.livejournal.com]

A bit sad and melancholy post. For me for some reason.

Wolf!


"Uh eh eh uh eh!"
- The Monster, from Young Frankenstein.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Your reaction matches my mood (I'm a bit melancholy)

[wuweibaby.livejournal.com]

Here's to an improvement in mood for both of us, today <3

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'll drink to that!