Napowrimo poem Day 20
Prompt: Chilhood Hero
We seek him here
We seek him there
Those Frenchies
seek him everywhere
I looked forward to you
every night
under the covers
by torch light
almost suffocating
Coming up for air
Odd's fish m'dear
You made me so happy
That is such fun. I think you are the first to write about a fictional hero. I remember well that deliciously sinful feeling of reading by torchlight under the bedclothes!
ReplyDeleteViV
great choice
ReplyDeletetintin rocks =)
Only on TV for me, but I used to run home from school to catch him.
ReplyDeleteI love it! Ah, flashlight under the blanket, I remember so well.
ReplyDeleteDamned elusive...
ReplyDeleteNever had a torch! {:0(
ReplyDeleteSurely, we're talking more Leslie Howard than Anthony Andrews, Rall??!
No Derrick we are talking about reading the novel which I remember was quite a large hardback book difficult to manoeuvre under the bed covers. I put Anthony Andrews picture there because he is better looking ( and that is how I imagined Sir Percy would look anyway.)
ReplyDeleteLeslie Howard is milky and creepy and besides
I think that movie was made before the WW2. Gosh you're not that old are you?
Far from it, m'dear!
ReplyDeleteLove it! Sir Percy was always one of my favorite heroes. I don't think there is any more romantic passage of literature than the one where "... he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one the places where her small foot had trodden..."-- romantic in literature anyway... perhaps not so romantic in real life! :)
ReplyDeleteTintin! We used to read him and Asterix in French class in elementary school. Well-picked. ^_^
ReplyDeleteI was about thirteen when I read this so I can't actually recall that passage. But it sounds right. Perhaps not in real life...although I wouldn't mind having my small
ReplyDeletedainty feet kissed (except they're not!):))
This poem is about The Scarlet Pimpernel
ReplyDeleteNot Tintin!
very nice Rall...no kidden fictional hero..I guess those voices on my transistor radio...under the coves...under my desk at school...heroe for me....thanks for this Rall
ReplyDeleteI love this almost universal love, the story that seizes us and makes us want to read for hours and hours, even if in secret. The lines about under the covers every night provides a hint that borders on love which a great book inspires. Tight and well written. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAnother huge gap in my first-hand education, but even with pasty Leslie, that character could unbuckle my swash any day.
ReplyDeleteI never read Tintin, but I've had several people tell me how much they love it. I was a vidiot who spent his time watching too many Bugs Bunny cartoons. But you can't do that under the covers :).
ReplyDeleteAnthony Andrews..always Sebastian to me..will try reading under the covers tonight..see if it's still the same...
ReplyDeleteRall,
ReplyDeleteGood poem.I never read The Scarlet Pimpernel. It is/was also a popular play in The UK, right? And Tintin wasn't ever aired in the USA to my knowledge.