Blanche Dubois by Richard C. Pullen

A poem written about the character of Blanche Dubois in the play by Tennessee Williams 'A streetcar named desire.'
The video that I put together is influenced by the film version by Elia Kazan with Vivien Leigh playing the part of Blanche.

The poem is as follows:

The weathered grey buildings of Elysian Fields
house the blessed of the working class
and a destitute woman with rhinestones for diamonds
dreams that time will never ever pass

With her 50 cent rented ragpicker clothes
A treasured gift of an imaginary rose
she still has to learn her hardest lesson
that beauty is a brief possession

Piano blues drift through Elysian Fields
the plantation life was better than this
Desires run deep and fantasies are exposed
as an Arabian Knight collects a kiss

The yellowing letters that she'd kept so long
from Belle Reve to the Flamingo Hotel
evoke memories of another boy
who never loved this southern belle

With her 50 cent rented ragpicker clothes
A treasured gift of an imaginary rose
she still has to learn her hardest lesson
that beauty is a brief possession

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