Best Cinema Poems
The line of people out the door.
The queue that snaked around the floor.
The building's sleek art deco style.
The carpets' faded plush red pile.
The "Coming Soon" in convex frames.
The "Showing Now" and big star names.
The James Bond pose in poster shots.
The tickets from the kiosk slots.
The heavy doors that often creaked.
The seats on springs that always squeaked.
The fan shaped lights along the side.
The screen that stretched up high and wide.
The smoke that swirled inside the beam.
The shapes and sounds of Pearl And Dean.
The adverts that had overrun.
The trailers for the films to come.
The feature that would come on first.
The sudden pangs of extreme thirst.
The usherette's cool ice cream stint.
The fancy names like Midnight Mint.
The expectations in the place.
The action of the opening chase.
The talking scenes that went nowhere.
The plastic cup beneath my chair.
The glance at watches in poor light.
The stunts and guns and final fight.
The seats that sprung as credits rolled.
The exit doors and night time cold.
A movie about horror
Characters playing with mirror
Reflecting images of furor
Dissecting with knives of terror
Villains of phantasm
Heels of sarcasm
Viewers of spasm
Breaking apart like chasm
Stories of apparition
Product of man's illusion
Overshadowing people's intuition
Instinct over perception
Curtains of cinema, wide open and free
Watchers of stigma, cold hands on knee
Lesson of the story, mind over body
Shadows of mystery, glimpse of artistry
A broad day light went dark
with his own conscience..
He locked himself
into a cubic space..
he searched for his cellphone
shut its voice..
after the last call...
curtain was up before he recall.
speeding cars, mind blowing cinematography
thrilling chase , dashing heroin,
ruthless villain, mesmerizing hero..
he slipped into the drama
sucked into illusion ...
he laughed with the hero
fought with villain
cried with heroin..
overwhelming story ..
he munched the popcorn so fast!
one hour 25 minutes
he got dragged to a different world
he lived a shadow life..
laughter & pain
hatred & love
inspiring love, motivated anger..
success & death..
he lived it.. he lived it ..
and munched the popcorn so fast!
one hour 25 minutes !
he forgot who he was..
he forgot his own story line
till the minute the hero won the race...
till the heroin ran to dais
to hug the hero...
he forgot who he was..
till the curtain was down..
he came out like a bandicoot!
facing the light with heavy heart of loneliness,
he searched for his car...
he searched for it.....
Theatre
ancient, organic
previewing, staging, performing
Sophocles, Chekhov, Ray, Tarantino
filming, screening, releasing
modern, edited
Cinema.
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Date: 22 / 10 / 2016
we are actors
arguing in
plotless movies
performing within
disconnected realities
muddling through
absurd battles
hoping for
direction
striving to
make sense
of our roles
in a
cosmic
Cinema
of the
Absurd
Theatre
auditory, expressive
producing, setting, critiquing
Miller, Olivier, Azmi, Bergman
directing, acting, entertaining
visual, scripted
Cinema.
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Date: 22 / 10 / 2016
Beneath your dress is a castle where all men wish to enter,
I'm more than just a tourist who'll spark up your stairs with golden tiles
and cover its floors with smooth terrazzo.
The erotic barriers of your colourful underwear steam up curiosity when pulled out.
Our hunger seem isolated but releases burning instincts out of a long quarantine
as mood steadily transit into the private zone like melting butter.
My sexual craft, so bad for goodness to envy
will develop a hundred senses for yearnings to gradually diffuse round.
We will ride like a ship without Anchor and a vehicle without brake
yet, never directionless
then both souls will gum into one
as they maneuver through a tight corridor with lips on lips.
Love is made so powerful from this wonderful art
which stains an entire ocean red,
time explodes from the flames coming from two sources,
as flesh meets flesh to form the highest faculty of pleasure.
In Memory of my close, good friend, Roger Ebert, international movie critic from Chicago, whose wisdom and warmth…. left us far too soon!
Some made me howl, some put me in tears.
Some so adventurous..I was in total fear.
These are ones, I have seen more than once.
Truly, making me as pleased as punch.
Annie Hall
Big
Bananas
Best Years of Our Lives
Beverly Hills Cop 1,2
Black Orpheus
Black Swan
Casino
Carbon Copy
Christmas Story, A
Coming to America
Copycat
Damien
Days of Wine and Roses,The
Dirty Harry Series
Days of Wine and Roses
Evil Under the Sun
Fargo
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Final Conflict, The
Firm, The
Fugitive, The
Flatliners
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Goodfellas
Hannah and Her Sisters
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws. 1,2
Klute
Lethal Weapon 1,2,3
Licensed to Drive
Lost Boys
Midnight Cowboy
Miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street
Omen, The
Poltergeist
Professional, The
Rebel Without A Cause
Red Shoes, The
Risky Business
Romeo and Juliet
Rosemary’s Baby
Schindler’s List
Sixteen Candles
Serpico
Sharknado
Shawshank Redemption
Space Odyssey
Splendor in the Grass
Stripes
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The
Uncle Buck
West Side Story(1st Version)
White Christmas
7/29/2022
~1~
The life made a film just for me
was my producer.
I was the actor and the creator.
I created every day as my last one.
The end of the film was unknown...
Precisely as at the cinema
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Actor Enacts
Banner Contracts
Censor Objects
Director Cuts
Editor Chucks
Grammar Pontificates
Hair-dresser Sets
Insurer Ensures
Jotter Notes
Kidnapper Attracts
Lover Sings
Murderer Kills
Narrator Describes
Oscar Signifies
Producer Promotes
Quaver Tones
Recorder Mixes
Singer Rhymes
Theater Plays
Utter Dialogues
Viewer Cries
Writer Thinks
X-Factor Denotes
Yodeller Yells
Zipper Closes
"but the show must go on"
Theaters of trees
Evenings balconies of birds
An hour early
realities are mentally flavored
...with respect...
thought itself being a creator
...andt...
also being formed by natures logic constants
...of geometric space-time...
all perceived as manifestations of some
...point expansion...
space-time cinema-sauce-city taste
...of a logic..
continuity that links 'reality's fourteenth of a second' time frames
...of minds passing perceptions into an...
'easy-listening' experience of logics 'classical-background actuality-flavors'
...that smooth the irrationalities of continuous geometric constants...
to the likes of classical music in a rhythms and blues jazz background style
stand sand
Charm wears a poise,
Ignite a flame;
Note easy voice,
Etch a fond name;
Meet moods that curl,
Apt music streams.
Movement now hurl,
Etch poignant themes;
Mind cheer that moves,
Observe sad feel;
Room with fine grooves,
Inspire bold will;
Expound the tale,
See joy avail.
Leon Enriquez
20 May 2015
Singapore
april thunderstorm
watching the show
~ bowl of hot popcorn
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Corporeal becomes
incorporeal, again
we partake of another
brief journey
through astral planes
of madness
where abstractions parade
like a bizarre circus
in our subconscious.
Bright lights beaming,
streaming through
jasmine incense and
clouded multi-colored
dancing paisley swirls.
Reach out and touch
gossamer clouds
as you glide freely
over lands unknown
where insights lay hidden
like mysteries, waiting
to be uncovered.
Stirring ethereal
melodies
never remembered
afterwards, along with
insatiable tastes causing
salivary responses,
perhaps placations of
waking repressed desires.
Brain’s synapses
electrically firing
in synchronous symphony,
projecting energy
like a powerful laser
beaming into the universe
beyond Heaven’s gates
until we realize that;
we must return to reality.