Sunday, 8 August 2021

THE LONELINESS OF GRIEF

 

There can be no lonelier

Place on earth than grief

When you lose a loved one

Mother, father, sister, brother,

A spouse, a close friend or lover

It burdens you heart and soul

Though you are surrounded

By kindred spirits, who also suffer

You still feel desperately alone

RICK ASTLEY WILL LET YOU BORROW

 

Rick Astley will let you borrow

Any movie from his Pixar collection,

But “He's never gonna give you Up”

As that’s the obvious exception

21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 409

 

Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,

Kissed the girls and made them cry

The power he liked to relish and savour

He now knows was inappropriate behaviour

HUMEROUS HAIKU # 15

 

The old ones are best:

What's orange and sounds like a

Parrot? A carrot

Saturday, 7 August 2021

I AM ATTENDING WALTERS FUNERAL

 

I am attending Walters Funeral

Because I was a friend of his

And I think that today we could

Definitely say where Wally is

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (1973)

“The Day of the Jackal” is a crime drama, screenplay by Kenneth Ross, based on the Novel by Frederick Forsyth and Directed by Fred Zinnemann.

The story is set in France during the early 1960s and centres around a professional assassin codenamed “Jackal” (Edward Fox) who is contracted by the OAS to assassinate General De Gaulle and follows his meticulous preparation including target practice, false identity, forged documents and weapons purchase.
But the authorities become aware of the target and the Minister of the Interior (Alan Badel) assigns the mission to locate the Jackal to his best investigator, named Lebel (Michael Lonsdale) and he is assisted by Caron (Derek Jacobi) as they
attempt to pick up his trail.


The film is a brilliant thriller lavishly produced by John Woolf, full of action, tension, and intrigue which holds your attention from beginning to the end.

Apart from the principles there is an all star supporting cast: Michel Auclair, Cryil Cusack, Maurice Denham, Eric Porter, Timothy West, Ronald Pickup, Donald Sinden, Edward Hardwicke, Andrea Ferreol, Feodor Atkine, Howard Vernon, Olga Georges-Picot and Delphyne Seyrig.

The film is beautifully photographed by expert cameraman Jean Tourneir, with a suspenseful and atmospheric musical score by George Delerue.

THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES

The Sibylline Oracles,

Oracular utterances scribed

In Greek hexameters

Ascribed to the Sibyls,

Prophetesses who uttered

The divine revelations

In a state of frenzy