Long Box office Poems

Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...

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Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling...

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Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day

Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shadow of a doubt. Aforementioned site chosen for...

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MY FIRST FRENCH KISSES
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

My first french kiss; I was lanky, skinny, barely fifteen
I had the hots for the popcorn girl, she was eighteen
She made and sold the popcorn at the Strand Theater
Our mutual...

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Run to the box office and pick up the musical score, run to the box office the patrons are flooding the floors; you need more chairs to fill the open space, you need extra security...

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I invite you on the show to tell me which way to go, I invite you on the show, to give constructive advice but you start to demoralize and we don’t need a Syracuse skeptic...

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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 Photoshop casting couch edited away
Baby Jane rude attitude don’t make...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXVI

IF ever I had a Country with or without any " Wood " in the aching aping Film Industry
And if ever (you know the refrain by now) I...

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Everything around is quiet, not a sound could be heard, except for the engine running up and down the street and the ticking clock erupting my heart beat.

I hear the sound of music, a yonder...

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I need you to sing
the straight white male lead
in Phantom of Our Opera
as a Catch-22 steed.

I don't sing with wit
and I won't dance without it.

If that's a no,
but hard for you to show,
you clearly have...

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Dash of panache …blade cascades on the lash..rocking …fans cavalcade flocking to be clocking some shocking..peacocking....with a hefty splash of flash fancy dan elan

No mocking.. knocking or blocking my pick as the talisman taking charge…unctuous...

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Yukon just coon sitter me a copacetic, energetic, ironic language lover (English is ma lingua franca late mother tongue), who waxes poetic, but tall so one babbling, creaking, and dabbling dis arming marine naval (gazing)...

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When you speak to an audience, who are you talking to? The people in front of your screen or those trapped in your dreams? More than thirty thousand people are watching you simultaneously and the...

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The time has come to end this life of mine,
The time has come to leave everything unimportant permanently behind. 
All of my rescues will be cared for and comfortable, as promised to me,
by a true...

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bohemian rhapsody parades
     amidst greensward moored
erupting profusely toward cerulean skies
     ushered with invisible rip cord
this Earthling self assigned to an (elder)
     box office...

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Me The Wild Elephant 

                       Being the wild Elephant
    ...

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Already noticeably marked
increase in daylight
yours truly courtesy affected
qua heliotropic phenomenon
finds me noggin gently being tugged
upward and westward ho toward sun
after dark mine talking head 
rests downward and eastward.

Soon very indistinct
environmental intimations 
regarding onomatopoeic
ubiquitous murmurings,
whereby old...

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My writing is way to escape from this world that I live in 
Most of my experiences in life I've sat and put it on a page 
My writing helps me to deal with the...

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Well, he's goofy and gangly and thin up on top
And his real last name once began with a "Cop"
But I don't give a hoot about all of that
'Cause his box office draw's made his wallet...

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It all started with two kids 
Getting it for what they did 
Scripted it as taking it one step further from the flirty pass 
A teen camper and his lass 
All of a sudden rich...

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There is an aura for the moment looking gloom 
Closing in on climatic resolution known as high noon 
Weather was dealt the color grey 
Heavy clouds outdoor on this day 
Blocking the sun from peeking...

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turn the page to a chapter of the book of life a mystery to how ur story is told. Who is the writer the author of ur tale some often ponder is the being within...

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By
Frank Lilpoeta Fernandez
This Poem is basically the finale to Human emotion series 
To be Honest 
To put on a full armor of a clown 
It’s not easy 
Because to be Honest 
Each comedian that brought...

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Box office draw! 
What Louie B. had in mind.
Dollar signs for him and all the others,
but not for you, sweetheart.

After all, music was the ultimate whore!
And for the sake of timing...
the rhythm of your own...

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There was a pair 
Who always loved to be apart of a good scare, 
One was Gretel while the other was named Hansel 
Your Saturday night plans should be a cancel 
Since you may want...

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