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Best Silver Screen Poems

Below are the all-time best Silver Screen poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of silver screen poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Who I Would Bring Back
Who would I bring back, if I had only one
Perhaps a great leader, Kennedy or Lincoln

Or I could choose a musical icon
Such as John Lennon...

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Categories: silver screen, memory, mother, nostalgia, woman,
Form: Couplet



I'D Love To Be.....But!
I’d love to be a model
Tall and thin like Jerry Hall
But I like fish and chips too much
And I’m only five feet tall

I’d love to...

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Categories: silver screen, funnylove,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Past His Prime But Doing Fine
Dedicated to one of my favorite actors, Morgan Freeman


“Driving Miss Daisy” was driving him crazy
   So old Morgan Freeman assumed a new role
It...

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Categories: silver screen, dedication, people
Form: Verse
Viva La Elvis - Abridged Version
VIVA LA ELVIS

In Tupelo Mississippi, twin baby boys were born,
To Gladys and Vernon Presley, but sadly one passed on.
They named him Jesse Garon, their hearts...

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Categories: silver screen, dedicationheart, lost, day, heart,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Undertow
The Great Escape - The Birds - Charade - The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone 
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World-
Civil rights, Viet Nam 
The...

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Categories: silver screen, death, history, november,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The River of No Return
THE RIVER OF NO RETURN
The Rue St. Germain is alone and still   
though cool is the night with a summer chill
the fog from...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silver screen, absence, beauty, destiny, farewell,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member The Cover of Moonbeam Lattice
Down the stairs turned chiseled rocky steps
the bare beauty cascades like an ebullient rapid
raw grace of Eve glistens on the satin skin
tinged with the hues...

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Categories: silver screen, analogy, beauty, body, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Lady of Fame
Scream Queen.
Silver Screen.
Rave action scenes.
Back in the day.
A dated matinee.
Two bits the fee.
Orange crush is a treat.
Popcorn queue waits.
Salt and butter to taste.
Soft Sixth-row seat.
Newsreel...

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Categories: silver screen, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unknown
I never knew my name, I always walk in shame.
I never knew my Father , nor my MOTHER.
Never knew a sister : Never knew a...

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Categories: silver screen, happiness, life, love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Coincidental Names and Vocations
I was reminiscing the other day about people I've known o'er the years,
And found it strange that their names corresponded with their careers.
For instance, Joseph...

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Categories: silver screen, humorous, jobs,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Walking On Sunshine
Call me little miss Dorothy from the wizard of Oz fame, for today I’m
Clicking my ruby red shoes, on the golden bricks on the sunshine...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silver screen, adventure, fantasy, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
No Man Stands Alone - the Ballad of Barney Ross
CHORUS
No man stands alone
in the street, the ring or the combat zone
some lay in the gutter
some sit on a throne
but no man stands alone

At the...

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© Art Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silver screen, courage, history, song-urban, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Antique Knights
A summer Saturday night brings them all out grates shining
spit polished chrome, driven by bald men with pates shining.

Candy apple red antique corvettes with white...

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Categories: silver screen, car, cool,
Form: Ghazal
Chanel No5
Chanel No.5
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On the borderline of photos and time
We don't want to leave her now

"What do I wear to bed? Why, Chanel No.5, of course!"

Something in...

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Categories: silver screen, death, history, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Fire In the Sky
Darkness carves night from day's glare with a half moon
smile under star-studded eyes. Faces glow as silver spoon
ladles the rapture of Venus. Fly Golden flames!...

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Categories: silver screen, fantasy, urdu, silver, stars,
Form: Rubaiyat

Book: Shattered Sighs