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Film Noir

It's been a while; I took a beer from the bar
and sat in a booth
which obscured the view, the world
and myself.

I wanted to be a young man
needing a young woman, but the head of the pint
soaked my mind into a quickly foaming reality
that I had to watch go flat.

I kind of slouched in the seat,
a

Categories: film noir, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Film Noir

I am behind
the large white wheel of an Oldsmobile.
I am a page ripped from a Raymond Chandler novel.
Clipped words curl close to my lips as hot as ash.

Dreamy eyes are cold tonight, there will be death
at the side of a desert back-road.
Revolvers will be shaken until blood spills from a mouth.

I park carefully until the

Categories: film noir, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Film Noir

Film Noir

By the lamppost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from a cigarette in her hand
trailing upward and blending with the mist
and a gold braid around her wrist
I remembered my gift

I

Categories: film noir, forgiveness, i love you,
Form: Ballade

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Film Noir Rapt

The TCM channel caught my eye
playing movies termed "film noir"
intriguing movies where someone lies
and theres a body lying on the floor,

The old black and white movie draws me in
with Bogie and Bacall or Stanwyck and MacMurray
murder mysteries with shadows and grins
where the villain is calculating and very nervy,

A love triangle where three is a crowd
the

Categories: film noir, angst, murder, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Film Noir

Film Noir

By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from a cigarette in her hand
trailing upward and blendng with mist
and a gold braid around her wrist
I remembered my gift

I stood

Categories: film noir, remember,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Nature's Film Noir

----the frost of fog licked
trees and tulips by the web
of a black widow----

Categories: film noir, nature
Form: Haiku

Film Noir

under the moon and murky alleyways
i roam with rats the mean and rain-slicked streets
a private eye, taking whatever pays
i search for her, whose husbands bloody sheets...
paid me to find her and his rich receipts

with-in the fog was smoke like fog in air
from her short cigarette and sinful glare
the light from lamp poles blinked; our bullets

Categories: film noir, mystery
Form: Dizain

Film Noir

Film Noir

 
They had to operate
remove the one
and from the other
take a nugget.
Later in the hall
they said they got it all.
They said how well
she’d be with rest.
Her first night home,
as we prepared for bed,
she turned to show me.
In my mind the cinema of fleet
but fecund years
ran through another time.
 

Donal Mahoney

Categories: film noir, wife
Form: Free verse

Film Noir

The melody is haunting me
Black and white, an old TV

A darkened room, the smoke perfume
insults the sense of right and wrong
Elbows rest upon a bar

Heads are bent, to hide the scars
and troubled souls have found a throne
Some will find a well known home
in a shot-glass of a song

A clarinet has cried the blues
A secret lies

Categories: film noir, dedication, music,
Form: Free verse