celebrating a 53rd anniversary

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Michael (MV)
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celebrating a 53rd anniversary

#1 Post by Michael (MV) » 11 Dec 2018, 06:43

  
Sunday December 9th 1965
I just turned 8 my little sister 6

and Charles Schulz' comic strip cast is set
hoping the premiere to be a huge hit

but the bah humbug in marketing predicts
disaster for A Charlie Brown Christmas

"Child actors voicing the characters
no laugh track
a never-green runt tree
a jazz score
and a depressed lead character
all spell doom"


However that evening with children
voicing the characters
and since real laughter can't be canned anyway
jazz making the score

off the charts already

yet for a grand finale
as that depressed lead character
(with a little help from faithful friends
Linus encouraging with Luke)
rises above the occasion soaring
higher than the tallest holiday tree
revealing in satellites what Christmas truly is all about

the film debut of the all-star Peanut ensemble
like the First Noël has arrived
appearing through the airwaves an instant classic

forever-green like love at first tele vision
​broadcasting globally each yuletide since
bringing the good news to us all every one




 
 
 
 
 

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Re: celebrating a 53rd anniversary

#2 Post by BobBradshaw » 16 Dec 2018, 22:03

I like this sweet, warm holiday piece.....Dodging the Rain is looking for holiday and new year pieces...send them this one

Michael (MV)
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Re: celebrating a 53rd anniversary

#3 Post by Michael (MV) » 17 Dec 2018, 04:55

Thanks brother Bob

for your kind words

and a possible direction for this selection


an occasional poem must rise above the occasion

😎

Frère Noël Michael (MV)

SivaRamanathan
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Re: celebrating a 53rd anniversary

#4 Post by SivaRamanathan » 17 Dec 2018, 05:41

I read this Michael and think it is the final version,well thought out,though I don't get it fully;I will when poets start commenting.

Siva

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Re: celebrating a 53rd anniversary

#5 Post by Michael (MV) » 17 Dec 2018, 08:31

 
Hi Siva

Thanks for reading & commenting.


The unusual choices that were assumed to fail the production, instead were the production values in service to the perennial success of the classic.

^^ and actually that observation is what moved me to write this poem


dark turned out to be the source of light

from depressed to elevated, as symbolized by the spirit of Charlie Brown in the narrative itself

and this epiphany at the darkest time of the year, like the Nativity


😎

Frère Noël Michael (MV)


SivaRamanathan wrote:
17 Dec 2018, 05:41
I read this Michael and think it is the final version,well thought out,though I don't get it fully;I will when poets start commenting.

Siva
 
 
 
 

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Re: celebrating a 53rd anniversary

#6 Post by SivaRamanathan » 17 Dec 2018, 08:44

Hi Michael

This is more than enough.Thank you.

Siva

Michael (MV)
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Re: celebrating a 53rd anniversary

#7 Post by Michael (MV) » 18 Dec 2018, 03:45

 
A poet-reader has observed the detail of "The Tree!"

Thus, I have put a tree up in the poem.

Is this indeed a poem in need of a tree?

If so, have I planted it in a space healthy to the evolution of the poem?


Thanks,

Frère Noël Michael (MV)

 

 
 

 
 
 
 

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Re: celebrating a 53rd anniversary

#8 Post by SivaRamanathan » 18 Dec 2018, 08:23

The more I read it the more I seem to be liking it.

Siva

Michael (MV)
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Re: celebrating a 53rd anniversary

#9 Post by Michael (MV) » 29 Dec 2018, 20:06

 
Thanks, Siva,

for your attention to this poem.


I'm considering recasting

"rises above the occasion soaring
higher than the tallest holiday tree
revealing in satellites what Christmas truly is all about"

to

rises above the occasion soaring
higher than the Rockefeller tree
revealing in satellites what Christmas truly is all about


^^ The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is, if not the tallest, definitely one of the tallest;
and with casting this fellow American icon brings a specification to the image.



Happy New Year

8)

Michael (MV)

 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

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