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Well, okay. I'll play a little nicer this week. Too tired last, or more... choked on the theme. Usually I'm not such a sissy, even about such things. I'll chalk it up to heat. Sorry for being a spoiler Raf. Anywhile, foam is up and at it. I shot one over the bow, if just a little funnin', hopefully more with than at, our hostess. She's a bit down in the foot but not long in the face, mostly. Something about crocheting and cats ought to keep her... on her toes. There I go again, been up too long. Never mind.
Oh, yes, here it is. My first, and informal entry. I'll... work on more, to be sure. Oh, and I'm reusing a recently played piece of music for this one. Since... the foot issue came from dancing and a mistake therein. Yes, somethings just fit. And it's such a dancy thing.
Down but Not Out
I can't lift a leg.
Won't discuss the particulars.-
Of mind, my legs jiggle.
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Move da Boom
Wiggle the way over.
Hip check, waggle, nod and duck.
Sweetpea! ~ I love you.
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One Chance Over and Over?
Box step, then ball change,
cross body lead, dos-a-dos.
Make flourishes count.
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As With Many Things, Your Choice
share glory or not
step together- dominate
selfish or loving
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As With Many Things, Your Choice
share glory or not
step together- dominate
selfish or loving
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Cool.. And a very appropriate video and haiku! I do like a bit of rockabilly style punk which this band is. This band is certainly a new one to me.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to more, doomster, if you have the time.
Oh, I have time. It's work time I am short on, and more because I can't lift a leg on this end either. Dang sun is frying out my circuits, I think. I'll kick at least a few more out and push to not let the summer win.
ReplyDeleteAs to the rockabilly? It's coming back, bigtime, if not in the states. This group is European... They seem to be having a... 50's revival? Something. I'm loving it, very pleased it was a new one to you.
You did get it, Doom. Dance is a subject which can be interpreted in many ways. Your take is uniquely you and I like it.
ReplyDeleteIts interesting to read your haiku contributions first and then to see them with the visuals. I interprete them differently without the visuals. Both works, though.
Well, I am never sure how to take "uniquely you", though I never really take offense even when it's meant. (No, no, of course I don't think it is meant here.) I have no idea what that means to any particular individual, just that it seems to be a common... notion brought to my attention. I'm good with it, just curious as to what it means.
ReplyDeleteHmm, perhaps you might, sometimes, when it is available to you, discuss what you thought you read compared to what I showed? Now, all roads lead to Rome, of course. But yet there are so very many roads. Not all of them are even generally considered roads.
I suggested that I tend to do the impossible every day. I literally walk through walls. Now, generally I used doors, but... don't count on it? Or... something like that. Uhrm, for example, I stepped through a window the other night. Locked myself out so my typical impossible route was blocked. Never mind. Been up all night again.
Still... curious.
I'll elaborate more on your haiku. I thought you might ask. But Sleep also eluded me last night. I think though in this particulate instance when I say uniquely you it refers to how you write haiku. Each of us has a certain style. I'm certain you would say that moi has a style that is particular to her.. Perhaps unique to her.
ReplyDeleteOkay.. Here we go..
ReplyDeleteThe 'what foam read into the Doom's haikus'
1. Move da Boom (hilarious title, btw) -
Initially I read it as just a dance, but then I also read it as the playful interactions of a couple interacting and bantering with each other. You know, one might saunter up and playfully hip bump the mate .. That sort of thing ..
2. One chance over and over (your box step 'ku)
This I read as strictly a square dance or maybe a contra dance. So your swing visual caught me by surprise although it did explain the flourish.. (I learned to do the swing, btw. It's been ages though). I thought your title was interesting though .. One chance overand over .. Interesting contradiction.
3. As with many things, your choice..
I read this as the dance of a partnership or marriage and what makes it work or not..
This morning i got the Astaire/Rogers video but Idol caught me by surprise. It doesn't anymore. I get it now .. Duh to me .. :-). What can I say .. Little sleep this morn'
Interestingly, when dancing with a partner, the man leads.. so that is actually a dominant position.
Ah, thanks, your take helps. Oh, and yeah, I get what you mean now, about being unique. Yeah, and I have been trying to expand that envelope, change my technique... shake it up (going along with this weeks theme). It's not quite as difficult as changing your fingerprints but it isn't easy. I can't do it while in this psychic hole for sure, but...
ReplyDeleteAfter a couple of years of haiku more, reading and writing, I wouldn't be surprised if people know who wrote haiku without the name, if in a defined pool of folk.
As for dominate though... Yeah, men lead. But as with Astaire, lead doesn't mean own, push, or anything else. He just takes the first step, gives her room for her stuff and even turns over the lead once in a while. Leading isn't dominating. At most it is directing, in it's more delicate nature it is merely taking the first step.
ReplyDeleteActually, if you have ever seen a team of mules, there is a lead there too. It's more like that. And, yeah, I think couples are often... burrows... It's how it works, and a beautiful thing, most easily appreciated from afar (in the way I am doing it). :p A little closer you might become entrenched and not have the ability to see the big picture always. As it was meant to be. Yum! Then again, even when I have been in the trenches... I have been able to see it all, close and far, and enjoyed it for the life of me. I consider myself special that way. Arguments, for my part, where just another form of dancing. :)
Hello. Visiting via Foam.
ReplyDeleteI took some basic dancing lessons three years ago, but I don't think I could remember how to do any of the steps now.
I do like Nouvelle Vague's version of Dancing With Myself.
Well hello LX. I've... seen you there so knew ya... by acquaintance. :)
ReplyDeleteI have never learned how to dance, I just do it or don't myself, so I won't complain about your loss. If I find a keeper woman I'd love to learn though. I just... made the poem up, sort of.
Hmm. I'm not keen on her take of that, but I... really dig her vocals. She's new to me. I'll have to look into some of what else she does. She reminds me greatly of someone else I really like, if I can't quite remember who. Drats, wanted to share.
Thanks for the visit.