Uncanny
...UNCANNY
A poem arises firmly from my thoughts.
I can see it reflected in my adversary's mind as well.
Mine is undeniably poetic, but theirs had an unsettling quality,
Mindful individuals with u...
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Categories:
errol, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Narrative
Whisper -For your choice T Contest
...“It’s not what they say when you are there, it’s what they whisper after you leave.” ~~ Actor - Errol Flynn ~~
Whispers as you hu...
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Categories:
errol, love,
Form: Couplet
Two-Edged Swords
...I write of two-edged swords (that tired clichè)
as though this modern boy knew hilt from blade;
as if I had been taught of true swordplay,
not learned from movies Errol Flynn had made.
But plainl...
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Categories:
errol, first love, loss, lost
Form: Sonnet
Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó
7. Joh...
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Categories:
errol, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
Living Poem
...E-yes
R-ead
R-ighteousness
O-f
L-iving
P-oem
O-n
R-eal
T-ime
U-nder
G-od
A-lmighty's
L-ook
Topic: Birthday of Errol Portugal (April 17)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
errol, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Stan the Man--Stan Lee a Dedication
...Stan the Man--Stan Lee a DEDICATION
He who that says that he is I am
I am Stan the man
Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28, 1922,
In Manhattan, New York City,
n the apartment of his ...
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Categories:
errol, analogy, appreciation, books, community,
Form: Free verse
Hide the Details
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Everybody got a Hollywood life story
to tell
More meat on the bone
give juicier bites
to sell
Nobody ever turns in a tarnished silver screenplay
Those warts and mistakes
get Photos...
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Categories:
errol, allegory, fun, metaphor, word
Form: Vogon Poetry
The Last Shall Be First
...(The Torre Vela is a prominent castle tower
at the "prow" of the Alhambra Palace, and
dominates the Spanish city of Granada.)
My lame-ass lips can't even draw
McDonalds milkshake through a str...
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Categories:
errol, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Shall Be First
...(Torre Vela = prominent tower, part of
the Alhambra palace, Granada, Spain)
My lame-ass lips can't even draw
McDonalds milkshake through a straw:
and if I must
run for the bus,
I take an ...
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Categories:
errol, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Seven Sorry Soldiers
...Seven sorry soldiers
Hiding in a ditch
Errol caught some shrapnel
And then there were six
Six sorry soldiers
Barely glad to be alive
Barrett took a bullet
And then there were five
Five so...
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Categories:
errol, bereavement, brother, death, death
Form: Ballad
Leading Men
...Errol Flynn a swashbuckler
he was also a wrangler
Jack Webb loved LA
gave us Joe Friday
Kevin Bacon brought us footloose
many years after Mother Goose
Humphrey Bogart had many roles
his ...
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Categories:
errol, men, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
My Dream Guy
...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 heartache and disaster
Then I saw him a dashing you...
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Categories:
errol, dream, love,
Form: Couplet
Hot Choclate
...I believe in miracles
Where you from you sexy thing
It started with a kiss
And so you win again
Everyone’s a winner baby
No doubt about it
So don’t stop it now
Heavens in the back seat of my C...
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Categories:
errol, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Stars
...Valentino , Errol Flynn such stars of the silver screen
Garbo , Bacall and Davis movie stars that all have been
Grace Kelly had such beauty Audrey Hepburn was the Queen
Bogart ,Fonda and and Br...
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Categories:
errol, film,
Form: Rhyme
Sea'
...Swashbuckling, piracy, Tyrone, Errol and yes, Rathbone.
All actors that rode the Spanish Main called the sea home.
Stories of Robinson Crusoe to Mysterious Island.
Fantasy stories with a moral, it...
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Categories:
errol, faith, sea, father, sea,
Form: Rhyme
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