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Casablanca Poems - Poems about Casablanca


Premium MemberCasablanca

Rick is willilng to sacrifice his happiness
As Ilsa was willing to sacrifice her husband's love
Both unwilling pawns created by a war
neither of them started or will finish
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Categories: casablanca, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCasablanca Exceeded Expectations

The New Yorker said Casablanca was “pretty tolerable”
No one expected it to do great things.
It was surprising when it won Best Picture of 1942.
Eighty-one years old, and it is now iconic.

My husband has a six foot poster of it in his office.
He watches it six to ten times a year.
I remind him that Bogart had
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Categories: casablanca, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberOscar-Ku 16 -Casablanca

anti-Nazi theme
Rick’s Café Américain-
play it again Sam ;)






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com
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Categories: casablanca, africa, conflict, film, love,
Form: Haiku

What To Remember Instead of Casablanca

You must remember this, the way the young French waiter
pronounced her name, Sarah Vog-gan
singing "April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom,
This is a feeling, No one can ever reprieve..."  And how
on a small balcony in Paris where God spends His
summers, a baguette blessed with supper wine is holy.
How Green is the property of street-lined sycamores,
bursting
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Categories: casablanca, farewell,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Casablanca - Love Never Leaves

How can their love end?
Not by German or French men...
not even by plane.


For "Senryu A Movie Scene" sponsored by Andrea Dietrich.
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Categories: casablanca, nostalgia, romance, war,
Form: Senryu



Casablanca

Casablanca
by Rick Rucker

Rick 
Visas
World Freedom
Beating Nazis
Loss
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Categories: casablanca, romance
Form: Lanterne

Casablanca

You did a beaUTIFUL THING Boss
Tp f### a perfect future all over again all over a woman,
,he met himsef comin back and he said to himself its pointless without love,
round up the usual suspects,
This very same thing happened to me just last year,
THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP,
Scream the GODS.
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Categories: casablanca, dedicationbeautiful, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things