Hollywood Poems - Poems about Hollywood

Built on envy and city lights The vagrant actor alone at night In hidden alleys with tinsel thorns On celluloid new lies are born A big screen promise of broken dreams The waitress car hop on Wilshire scheme Drugged on stardom with toxic friends What footlight’s start — the darkness ends (The New Room: June, 2025) ...

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When you are old not much seems new But technology trolls and cars suck too I like the old cars with frames solid heavy Does good a heart with your foot on the levy New clothes aren’t new they’re copycats Except the ripped new clothes not made to last I miss the elegance that Hollywood once had People barely dress now,...

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In Paris, society people unironically dress for dinner, go to cocktail parties (where the hostess has an obvious drinking problem), dine with Catholic Bishops, industrialists, politicians and occasional celebrities (usually for charity) in places dripping with atmosphere. I met this famous actor once (July 2019, pre-covid, I was 15), at one of these summer parties in...

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I went to the Hollywood studio meeting Paul, Steve and Sandy gave me a warm greeting I was there to advise them, hired from Spain My motto in business was no pain, no gain So we sat down to the business at hand Their movies were sinking, like stones in quicksand. "How about a cowboy movie," I said... "Good guys and bad...

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Canada needed a hero but a fowl mouth ...

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If only you could just scan the Screen of that scene Hollywood Dream! Lately though I been thinking Of seeing a matinee and that the time Is right. Yet instead I'd just rather Be fed the glamorous life. I think Might just have to stay home hoping That some day I will be I will be A glutton for rights of human...

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Never had I met you Still I know your name, Because of the notoriety Because of the fame Written in stone Forever and a day, Many gone too soon Seems to happen that way Halls of Hollywood memories Echo down the tomb ... In a place of reverie Not a place of gloom Legends of the silver screen Lives of cinema and...

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Don't sublet your heart across the sea I feel the ease of the incoming breeze midnight Hollywood Unvain your heart play your favourite song its telling me we are getting closer ...

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I may not have a Hollywood body Or Hollywood hair A Hollywood smile Or a Hollywood stare. I may not have Hollywood lips Or be Hollywood thin Or have Hollywood cheekbones And Hollywood skin. I may not have a Hollywood house Or a Hollywood garden A Hollywood room Or a Hollywood fountain. Hollywood friends Or Hollywood parents Hollywood money Or a Hollywood Terrance. ...

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Dues paid Made grade Looks fade Old maid...

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It’s an amazing situation. Came right out of the blue. I had to pinch my arm to Convince myself it’s true. They want to film my novel, Offered an amazing price, No more nine to five drudgery Which sounded so very nice. Of course they’ve changed the Location from Neasden to Japan And my middle aged heroine has Become a muscular action man. It’s no...

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The unveiling confusion, infirmity, the stars align with impunity. To mock with signs ...

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(Author’s note: This poem is a humorous satire on how a modern media mentality would view the story of Christ’s Ascension.) The Ascension (with Rewrites) By Mark D. Stucky Look! Up in the sky! Not a bird. Certainly no plane. It’s super God-man! Victor over gravity as well as the grave! The ascension was levitation without benefit of...

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There are little, lost islands of humanity, That are afloat among a great sea of concrete. As they gaze upon a ravaged horizon, Where the shoreline seems far and obsolete. With ship sails that point...

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...So he walked out, stuck out his hand, said, “Ma’am, I think I can help you, I’m a Hollywood talent scout, and you’re girl has potential, it’s true. “You may not know me from Adam, but I think your girl could go far, tell me ma’am, have you ever thought that she could be a child star? The mother shrieked and grabbed her...

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