One of my favorite album covers in which I like best
Includes some famous actresses like Marilyn Monroe and Mae West
Some very famous male Actors it also yields
Like, Marlon Brando, Huntz Hall and W.C. Fields
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and Bette Davis are also there
And so is Johhny Weissmuller, Oscar Wilde and Fred Astaire
There's the British Prime Minister- Robert Peel and Hindu Guru- Swami Sri
And there's Sonny Liston but there is no Mohammed Ali
There's Lenny Bruce and Bob Dylan and others you might know
And of course, the famous poet- "Edgar Allen Poe"
You'd have to be good to recognize them all
But it's easy to find- John, Goerge, Ringo, and Paul
Categories:
bette davis, music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Brilliance and Madness
Howard Robard Hughes
Famously rich recluse
Dreams led him to the lap of luxury
Followed by nightmarish mysophobic OCD
Rich playboy aviator Howard Hughes
With movie starlets kept himself amused
Dated Katherine Hepburn
Bette Davis took her turn
And still more, which kept the tabloids confused
Born Howard Robard Hughes to a rich family
With English, Welsh and French Huguenot ancestry
Enjoyed a successful multi-faceted business career
But aviation and aerospace were his favorite frontier
Categories:
bette davis, celebrity, film, flying, mental
Form: Clerihew
Sing sad songs to a wanderlust child born
stagnant love the heart of a mother's scorn,
raised by elders, unfamiliar parents
to the loneliest heart, lost and errant
struggling in hope to find the better way
amidst the misconceptions of each day;
play a melody, rhythmic, soft and sweet
where a discarded child's heart-achingly beats
part of dream and hope forever longing
integral to family belonging
find the lessons learned are hard and true
no more could a solitary child do
return love honest, unconditional
to mother's heart touched love transitional.
2/7/19 Movie Magic Contest
Gregory R. Barden sponsor
Now, Voyager Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale
Categories:
bette davis, heart, mother daughter,
Form: Sonnet
my love,
would you mind if i took the time
to share a lovely chill that tickles my smile?
it's your eyes!
i'm afraid that i lose myself in them
in their promise
in their million shades of a million blues
i have to confess they inspire in me
a romantic desire.
when your eyes touch mine
my thoughts hitchhike on a highway of mischief
like a teenager barefoot on scorching hot slate.
sometimes
my sweet
i imagine
diving head first
into our locked stare
there i bathe in the milk of your
dream eyes
and in the fix of my wake
i reach the surface drenched
in the solitude
of your loving glare.
i feel compelled to tell you that my body
my whole body
trembles in my admiration of them
what I am trying to say
my love
is
oh my God
your eyes.
Categories:
bette davis, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Dark Victory
A free spirit
Who never took orders
Young and strong
Nothing could touch you
Reckless
Volatile
Defiant
Dangerous
Until you found love
And a courage
You didn’t dream
You possessed
This was the role you said
Was a reflection
Of your own life
A life that blazed in those
Famous, song-worthy
Eyes
In the end
Your vision grew dim
As your illness
Put out the light of life
But it could not subsume
Bravery
Dignity
Quiet composure
Selflessness
Or love
That was your victory over the dark
As you faced eternity
Unafraid
You drifted off alone
With eyes seeing
What we cannot
At least, not yet
Bette Davis in "Dark Victory" for Frank Herrera's "Describe your favorite performance by Actor
or Actress in a movie"
contest
Categories:
bette davis, death, life
Form: Free verse
Actress Bette Davis
Alias Baby Jane
A woman insane
Who wants to entertain!
*For John Hecks Contest
Categories:
bette davis, childhood, loss, mystery
Form: Clerihew
Sundays, my mother and I watched movies on PBS.
Jezebel, Sabrina, In the Good Old Summertime
Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland.
I practiced their detached look of desire
In bathroom mirrors, when no one was looking.
I learned to smear lipstick across my face,
As if readying myself for a ball,
And dot the beauty mole where my lips creased upward, conjuring Marilyn.
Why didn’t anyone in the movies look like me?
The darkest grays were servants mumbling “Yes’um, Ma’am” or “No, Sir.”
No blonde hair or come-hither lashes.
Maybe Nat was right: “Madison Avenue is Afraid of the Dark.”
Recently, I’ve watched Shirley tap in movies
For a few minutes, I did wish I was her, with my curls
Bouncing in the air, my dress a frilled tower -
That is, until her young voice cracked, “Mr. Bones, Mr. Bones.”
The musicians walked out in blackface and I remembered.
Categories:
bette davis, black african american, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Star strung
like Bette Davis Sundays
marathon watching
and sitting in tears
Wrestling emotions
which calm and confuse us
Confound us and move us
beyond golden years
Broken
like black and white vision
fuzzy and stationed
with grey rabbit ears
Lost in commotion
which break and betray us
which bullet gun lays us
compounding our fears.
Categories:
bette davis, history, people, social,
Form: Free verse