Best Garbo Poems

Greta Garbo
by R.e. Taylor

I know you wish to be anonymous
To never be seen again
But the world will not allow that to happen
I know it may...

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Puttin on the Ritz - Just for You

Remember when I used to be dead broke,
and everyone laughed cause my dreams were a big joke?
Well I...

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Awakening early 
just before sunrise
to exquisite sounds
of the morning refrain

Blackbird sweetly 
offers his love
with his passionate tune
surely making her swoon

How could she resist
this morning opera
each...

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“Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. ”

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Fred Astaire was king of tap
Biggie Smalls was huge in rap
Carson (Johnny)ruled TV
Dylan’s songs are poetry
Elvis made the girls all swoon
Frank Sinatra loved to croon
Greta...

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I sat listening intently to the tune the band played
The words the singer sang were the nicest I had heard

Talked about hidden love, about the...

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Dark serene
Alone and together
My world in chaos
Vocational anxiety
Financial sobriety
Yet all matters not
As I look to my right
Gaze at my Gucci
Amazed by her will
Her zest for...

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suave Baron Felix
world-famous ballerina-
Garbo. . . Barrymore






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com...

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I stand in front of the mirror
Trying to look a dish
Puckering up the lips
Practicing for a kiss

I half close my eyes
For the Greta Garbo look
I...

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Lightening bugs flash, 
like the worn celluloid images of old movies,
I sit beneath a great Greta Garbo moon.
I am the heroine of this short.
The dew...

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Valentino , Errol Flynn such stars of the silver screen
 Garbo , Bacall and Davis movie stars that all have been
 Grace Kelly had such...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXX -  Bang! Bang! Who Shot Me Down like an Un-licensed Pariah 
Dog ! Follow Up !

IF ever...

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You just don’t appreciate me
And all the things I do
When I don’t come home until late
I do it all for you

I treat you like a...

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I wish I were a baggage to abandon.
I wish I were a hold-all to un-hold,
With no handle for some bloke to put his hand on
Or...

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"Everyone of us live our life just once,
if we are honest, to live once is enough."

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