Long Charlie chaplin Poems

My darling sweet sweet  love Pete
its been over three long months seems like eternity now since you departed and my world stopped
And my sun became cold
 
I miss you more with each breath and...

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Moe
Larry
Curly

Shep 
Joe

This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know

Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way

They were yukking it up,
talking clown...

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A scientist pursuing research—
with disinterested curiosity,
Poets distancing themselves—
from personal emotions,
from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect),
A sportsperson focusing on the event—
not obsessed with results,
demonstrating sporting spirit,
Anyone doing their karma—
regardless of results,
as characterized in Indian scriptures,
notably the Gita—
All...

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His intellectual achievements and originality have made the word Einstein broadly synonymous with genius. Albert Einstein’s brother was a monster, his name, FrankEinstein.

Einstein was asked to appear alongside the comic actor Charlie Chaplin during the...

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The Tramp Persona
Who was this boy, a pauper born?
Existing in despair and continual forlorn
Scandalized, accused of communist sympathies
Encompassing both adulation, and social controversies
Charlie Chaplin how can I take you seriously?
Chucklesome slapstick injecting tragedy
Awkward, little mime...

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A TRIBUTE TO CHARLES SPENCER CHAPLIN

      I bow to
                   First International Star
...

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It's funny, because I've vacuumed under your bed 
a hundred times in the past two years
I've dusted the black bedside table
picked up your Scotch and Soda pants off the floor, 
still jingling with belt attached...

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~Sir Charles(Charlie)Spencer Chaplin~
(Acrostic)


C-harlie Chaplin as he was better known made
H-is name famous in the early 20's in the silent screen.His
A-cting career took off from then on, right from 1895 to 1976.
R-espectively he was not just...

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Hello There, Runt

By Elton Camp

A cry of outrage comes from the politically correct
For the very word “runt” they will angrily reject
But I have used it only to gain for this poem attention
That it’s insulting and...

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It’s 1914, and Hollywood star Mabel Normand has just
helped new boy Charlie Chaplin to develop his “Tramp”
character. She is wondering if she’s done the right thing.

    I gave him everything – even...

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I imagine little house on the prairie
(bordering Lake Woebegone),
a place to hang cloak
most bucolic, edenic, idyllic...
apropos place for this poetic cowpoke,

who at present day trumpets
himself as token panhandler
of Perkiomen Valley, a
genteel, gentile, and gentle
Semite with...

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                 LEGEND


                ...

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Echo world behind the glass,
I make the same faces I did at twelve.
The grinning Cheshire Cat 
with teeth like piano keys,
mendacious and coy
because viewing my portrait with sobriety
forces me to march with familiar frailties.
I’m certain...

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If I have to move on/regardless won’t lose myself/ alarming like Charlie Chaplin/took a while to get a reaction/ hogging the role of who loves me the most/narcissistic or action figure/ we all gotta grow...

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I am the Boy Scouts who become 
Official. 
   I am Charlie Chaplin film that 
Makes you giggle. 

   I am the triangle shirtwaist  
Factory fire. 
   I...

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When life has me down
On the mats
Running circles
Doing laps
Short of breath
Losing bets
I go to the internet 
And Google cats... 

I see water colored
Cats as art
Cats with wings
Swinging stars
Cats that sing
Cats that bathe
Dressed like Pirates 
Sailing...

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I’ve seen this silent movie reprise:
lips moving, but there’s no sound
Listen, listen only with your eyes,
Rudy Valentino is speaking now
Lips moving, but there’s no sound ...
fact projectors are taking a break
Charlie Chaplin is speaking now,
telling...

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Lewis Carroll, Harpo Marx,
Albert Einstein, Eminem,
Paul McCartney, Judy Garland – 
These are just a few of them.

Add DaVinci and Obama,
Oprah, Jimi and Bill Gates,
Charlie Chaplin, Morgan Freeman – 
All have something that relates.

R.B. Ginsburg, Mozart...

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A Scene from Laurel and Hardy

Like a scene from Laurel and Hardy,
Slapstick and comical beyond belief.
Legs dangle from bedroom window,
His head stuck, shouting for pain relief.
 
You’d swear it was Buster Keaton,
Or Charlie Chaplin in...

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I'm sunshine by day and quiet steel by night.
Quietly steal away to turn out the light
and cry in silence
like...
Charlie Chaplin.

Oh Charlie, even your smile is sad
and when you scream, people laugh.

Calls for help are heard...

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she being
born with no
ability to hear
or speak
he acting in
movies then
that had no
sound

found each other
historically caught
memorably not
talking in a
photograph

the age of silents
would soon be
over but all was
still in black
and white

he is seen being
the character he
had many...

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DE PAULETTE GODDARD
ON PAULETTE GODDARD

From a child fashion model into a screen actress
Born in New York City at the start of the 20th century,
Paulette to New York University was a benefactress.

From a child fashion model...

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