Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker are in a bad situation.
Legions of army ants will attack their plantation.
These creatures cause many square miles of devastation.
The insects will devour everything in sight.
Charlton and Eleanor will take a stand and fight.
Do you wonder how this predicament will go?
All you have to do is watch the video.
Based on the 1954 film "The Naked Jungle"
Categories:
heston, film, insect,
Form: Rhyme
A chat show presenter from Preston
Had a peculiar guest on
He came on a cart
With a shield o'er his heart
And said that his name's Charlton Heston
Categories:
heston, film, history,
Form: Limerick
In '59 the world was fine.
in yellow, childlike summertime.
There was Charlton Heston, being" Ben Hur"
Fidel Castro's ferocious slur.
brand new '59 Ford Galaxies
people on trains going "North by Northwest"
a man wanting to marry a man cause" Some Like it Hot"
and wars were cold.
Killers were crazy, caught and hanged,
and the greatest hairdo was a ponytail and bang.
There was family TV, family meal and family car.
Refrigerators powered big buxom doors,
and the ice cream man cometh
the gasman, milkman and doctor.
Born were Boeing 707's, Barbie Dolls and colorized "Bonanza"
as the 60's danced on the shoulders of this golden era,
all bliss and pink paradise
visions, visions, of cat eye marbles and jacks left to keep
of snow-cones, bicycles, hula hoops
mellowing into a silver decade
no pain, no American tears
pure trust.
Until their blood
splattered on us.
7/6/18
2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 21'
11/27/2022
Sponsored by: Mark Toney
Categories:
heston, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
Charlton Heston rode on a horse down the beach.
He and his newly-found lady friend escaped the apes.
Something he saw brought a startling epiphany.
Charlton realized he was back home, but in the future
when he discovered the decaying remains of the Statue of Liberty.
How could the process of evolution retrogress?
This was enough to make the average person do away with themselves.
However, the producers needed him to star in a sequel.
Based on the 1968 film “Planet of the Apes”
Categories:
heston, fantasy, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
CHARLTON HESTON AND MY CHILDHOOD
To say so in those days would surely have been libel
But better than hellfire screamed from pulpits above
Were the sandal and toga movies about the bible
They always spoke softly to me about God’s love
It seemed so logical, to do good - so just, so appropriate.
God told Heston go forth, and lead people away from Brynner:
When Charlton Heston told you to do it
He said it not for show but from a love which was inner.
Seemed to me in movies the good guys got rewarded
And the hypocrites always got exposed -
Reminded me of teachers who were applauded
When they stood and as self-righteous religionists posed.
Always made me happy to see on Saturday nights
What was twisted or denied in school next week:
In toga movies, even the bad guys had some rights
And Heston favoured not the strong but the weak.
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Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner starred in movie THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
Heston was the good guy, Moses. Brynner was the bad guy, Pharaoh.
Final score: Moses 1 - Pharaoh 0
Categories:
heston, childhoodme, me,
Form: Quatrain
MOVIE NOTEBOOK
Recent films of note include
FISTFUL OF COMMANDMENTS
With Heston and Eastwood
THE MAGNIFICENT DWARFS AND SNOW WHITE
With Eli Wallach as Grumpy, and
Yul Brynner as Baldy, a kind of white knight
And the British biblical re-make
BIG BEN HUR
That one really caused me to double-take
Categories:
heston, funny
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
MOVIE LOVER
I always loved movies bad and good
With great heroes Heston and Eastwood
With a fistful of commandments and
Toga or spurs costumes, and sand.
Forever fighting bad-guys and bad-acting,
In hot deserts where everyone was speaking
English and even Jesus’ accent had a Milwaukee strain,
And Israel or Mexico were really Spain.
Categories:
heston, funny
Form: Couplet
Those from the islands
consider it a feat
to partake of this meat.
They fry it for breakfast
and the day's not complete
unless it's stirred into soups
simmered to red heat.
(Refrain)
Not even Charlton Heston
would touch that intestine.
A Chinese yam
an old picnic ham
All take a front seat
to that pink, greasy meat.
A preliminary exam
of that container of spam
reveals the discrete
use of waste meat.
Bowels and snouts
the back of the lap
mixed with chassis lube
and other such crap.
Teats, and feet
stuff off the street
compound the most part
of that horrible meat.
{Refrain)
Yes, ma'am
We are serving spam
We are under the orders
of Uncle Sam.
We're conserving best cuts
by eating the guts and
conserving resources
by grinding up horses
Categories:
heston, funny, health, satire
Form: I do not know?
Sword-and-sandals he often wore
Fifties movies,the fans adore,
Bibilical epics we see no more-
Unusual in a Hollywood life
Faithful,marriage to just one wife.
Tribute to Charlton Heston
Categories:
heston, people,
Form: Narrative