Stardust
Engineer in me
won't let me tell how I feel
stardust is dreamy
Engineer in me
makes me tell it like it is
stardust is hooey
Copyright © 2008 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved
Engineer in me
won't let me tell how I feel
stardust is dreamy
Engineer in me
makes me tell it like it is
stardust is hooey
Copyright © 2008 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved
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Tag: One Single Impression Stardust
prompted today by Lirone (thank you) Words That Sing
Tag: Jim's OSI
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Dégas
The same goes for my poetry attempts (don't know how, but I enjoy it!).
Tag: One Single Impression Stardust
prompted today by Lirone (thank you) Words That Sing
Tag: Jim's OSI
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Dégas
The same goes for my poetry attempts (don't know how, but I enjoy it!).
Notes:
Stardust defined: (link, the Free Dictionary)
star·dust
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(stärdst)
n.
1. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being.
2. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use.
3. Minute particles of matter that fall to Earth from the stars. Not in scientific use.Idiom:
have stardust in (one's) eyes
To be uncritically or unrealistically optimistic.
Stardust, the song (lyrics) (link)
Singer: Frank Sinatra (link)
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Writer(s): hoagy carmichael
Verse:
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that were apart
You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust
Of yesterday
The music
Of the years
Gone by
Chorus:
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely nights
Dreaming of a song.
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you.
When our love was new, and each kiss an inspiration.
But that was long ago, and now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song.
Beside the garden wall, when stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
Of paradise where roses grew.
Though I dream in vain, in my heart you will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of loves refrain.
Stardust, the movie (link)
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Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Written by Novel: Neil Gaiman
Screenplay: Jane GoldmanMatthew Vaughn
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Starring:
Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Ricky Gervais, Rupert Everett, Jason Flemyng, David Walliams, Mark Strong, Peter O'Toole, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro
Music by: Ilan Eshkeri
Cinematography: Ben Davis
Editing by: Jon Harris
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release date(s): August 10, 2007
Running time: 128 min.
Country United: KingdomUnited States
Language: English
Budget: $70 million[1]
Gross revenue: $135,553,806
I love how you also included this wonderful song classic with your own interpretation of this prompt Jim. I enjoyed reading all of it.
ReplyDeleteI'm still humming along....
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Fun haikus!
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the humour in these. And a very informative post.
ReplyDeleteWow! That was lot said about star dust. Like the first poem a lot.
ReplyDeleteThe engineer side of you wouldn't be writing these nice poems!
ReplyDeleteJim, I used the Oxford american definition of stardust, and wrote about a person. I wonder if anyone will get it? Do you?
This was fun. Can't engineers dream?
ReplyDeleteYes, fun - I love how the "poet" writes about the "engineer" not getting it!
ReplyDeleteJim--
ReplyDeleteThank the stars that there are engineers that work for NASA and help us better understand the mechanics of the universe...so that the poet (in you!) can tell the bigger story.
I laughed out loud at your haiku! My software engineer life partner Andy laughed also when I showed him, and nodded his head like he got the joke!
Thanks for all the good stuff here, Jim--
Happy new year to you and Mrs. Jim-
oh, and ontogeny, as regards to my haiku--is about the beginning of a new cycle--does that makes 'sense'?
Funny! Isn't it interesting how many of the people who contributed to OSI this week, wrote about the dust of stars (the material building blocks of the universe) rather than about dreamy 'stardust'?
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I love your poems. And Stardust, the movie - GREAT movie... at least I loved it. Happy almost New Year.
ReplyDeleteYour haikus were a pleasure...and all your info, too!
ReplyDeleteCongrats-I couldn't even find the term in my dictionary-but I was using a small paperback edition.
ReplyDeleteYour haikus were excellent.
I loved reading this post. Totally about stardust!
ReplyDeleteplaying for pleasing the moon
And please do visit Poetry Train being run each Monday!
Yes, I love the lyrics you included. I have an inkling that this engineer of whom you write has a little corner to himself which is rich in stardust.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyable post! 'Stardust' is one of my old favorites even though Sinatra isn't. :)
ReplyDeleteI like how the stardust changes! This whole post is so entertaining!
ReplyDeleteFourwindshaiga is right. You must be a recovering engineer.
ReplyDelete..great post jim- beautifully engineered poems-a joy to read..& yes~
ReplyDeletea very happy new year!..