This time the prompter is the one-and-only Peter Goulding, with a selection of prompts over here. I went for the option of writing an homage to Pancake Tuesday (tomorrow, yay!).
The requirement was to write in the voice of a wellknown poet. I felt that the particular mix of religion and sensual pleasure involved might suit a certain Canadian Troubadour - one of the first poets that ever hooked me with his work - AND I thought I might as well go the whole batterin' hog and record the damn thing too. So, as a Fierce Pancake treat(!?!) - Nolan sings;
Happy Pancake Day, fellow passengers :-)
Pancake Day by scalder
Pancake Day
(with sincere apologies to Leonard Cohen)
Epiphany passed
and the time came at last
to shrive our omissions and misdeeds away
We met in the middle
I brought flour and a griddle
what you brought you just couldn't say
the future was fast
riding free in its stirrups
we buried the past
turned gold into syrup
and danced
and we danced
we danced
on pancake day
As twilight grew angry
we pillaged the pantry
hardly seeing each other for smoke
A crackle of light
turned linoleum white
thunder muffled the words that you spoke
the future was meagre
the past tried to smother us
hungry and eager
we battered and buttered
and danced
and we danced
we danced
on pancake day
The sky boomed and rain fell
we cracked open the shells
mixed the yellows down into the whites
The gutters were flowing
The storm it was blowing
Like Lucifer and all of his lipsmacking sprites
I asked would you rather
Azores malassada
but you just lay stroking your legs
I sprinkled mine
with cane sugar and lime
and we gorged in the night till we ran out of time
and eggs
and we danced
we danced
and we danced
on pancake day
we danced
oh we danced
and we danced
on pancake day
with Mardi Gras spent
we woke up in Lent
© P Nolan 2011
20 comments:
You really ought to send this to Leonard. He's on Twitter, I believe - send the link.
I loved the mix of sex and syrups. Really, just brilliant!
Canadian Kat
You really ought to send this to Leonard. He's on Twitter, I believe - send the link.
I loved the mix of sex and syrups. Really, just brilliant!
Canadian Kat
Oh sweet mother of divine. That is absolutely incredible. It really is Cohen. I was in stitches from the first line. Probably the funniest thing I've heard in the recent past!
@ Kat - Thanks - hope I don't get sued! 'sex and syrup' - now yer talkin' :->
@ Peter - Thanks - glad you liked it - found it hard to record without laughing myself :-D
Oh, Lord! I agree with Kat ... you must send this to the Master Cohen! You hit the right everything with this amazing piece.
Thanks Oakster :->
NEVER! EVER! Have I had such a pleasure ~ listening to you read this incredible poem, listening to the sweet guitar. WOW!
Tnx Helen :-> Enjoy the pancakes tomorrow!
Stunning! love it- thanks for posting and visiting-
Tnx Izzy :-)
Pure magic, you certainly cheered up my pancake day!
Tnx Soxy :-)
Insanely genius! Loved it.
Fookin double yoked fablo! Briliant performance.This actually made me laugh, and I never laugh at stuff EVER!
This is just amazing. I shall enjoy it again - perhaps twice before I go.
...and we gorged in the night till we ran out of time
and eggs
Brilliant!
Tnx y'all :-)
LOL!!
Not so shabby on the singing and musical front either Padhraig, but the lyrics are just legendary. Fab
Shabby enough! Thanks Niamh :->
Wow Padhraig, this is simply delicious. More please
Thanks Kate. You might be sorry you said that :->
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