Long Marilyn monroe Poems

"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire

"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns." 
Charles Baudelaire

"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."

"There are...

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I watched “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” last night - we’re going to be reading Truman Capote’s book after the break and I wanted to start thinking about it. The movie rewrites Truman Capote’s story, turning it...

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I went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of call was Stavanger, it was nice to be on dry...

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Various Heresies 9

Post-Nashville Covenant
by Michael R. Burch

We love our God.
We love our guns.
We despise the weak.
Don’t call us Huns!

We love our kids.
We love our schools.
We love our guns.
Don’t call us fools!

We pledge ourselves
to the strong...

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Each single morning on my way to work
I fantasize what happens in New York
If I were to spend a long weekend there.
I'd ask you out of the blue, not despair.

Once passionate lovers, can we be...

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Edith had been suffering from shoulder pain
She'd developed a stoop and only her left shoulder would sag
When she went to see her doctor
He put all the blame on her weighty handbag

One afternoon she had time...

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I can feel your inner pain although I know this can’t be so, running through my own veins after many years of your soul leaving this world for so much more
It’s been almost sixty-two years...

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College is the time to get away from parents
Getting an education at day, going to house parties at night
And it was one of those house parties that I met my love
He was standing there so...

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Grrrr WOMEN they drive me mad!


We were due to go on holiday
My wife said she was on her way
I’d got the car engine running 
I waited
and waited
and waited



But my wife Marcie was on the phone...

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Good, bad or otherwise it is so interesting when we discover one of our ancesters is famous.
'Daredevils over Niagara' was written to showcase people who have attempted to dominate the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. While reading...

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Robert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer

Has anyone seen my old friend? Abraham

In the ever-turning pages of history, specific years stand like pillars, holding up the...

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Robert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer

My old friend 

In the ever-turning pages of history, specific years stand like pillars, holding up the weight of profound...

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Revisited the 60's in a dream this past eve....

I saw Bobby fall and lying in a puddle of his own blood

Martin and John followed by processions of broken; tears and cries

Bodies with motionless eyes, frozen...

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He was known as Joltin John
With his baseball bat and his cap upon

He played the game with vigour and speed
Many a supporter said he was all that they need

Was born Guiseppe Paolo DiMaggio number eight...

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Sheba was a bird brain – a dumb bunny for sure.
She had no idea she was a dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe.
Not the blonde, over-glamorized, sensationalized Marilyn,
but rather the young, darling, innocent-looking Marilyn
the one who...

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I shook my hips down at Heart Break Hotel...
My ghost now supposedly wanders to where, I just
will not tell.
I had a twin brother that died at birth...
My mother i dearly loved had died and i...

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It’s Saturday morning, and even though it’s Thanksgiving break, Lisa and I are in her bedroom, in NYC, studying.

“Ok,” Lisa stops, looks up and says, “give me a 5ex symbol.”

“I.. I don’t have one on...

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Holding on to my words
Your kiss
Took the sun 
And replaced it with Mars
There is a deep chill 
As the heartbeats echo from 
Underneath the ground
It could have been confused with an earthquake
But it is the...

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Awakening early 
just before sunrise
to exquisite sounds
of the morning refrain

Blackbird sweetly 
offers his love
with his passionate tune
surely making her swoon

How could she resist
this morning opera
each wistful aria
expressing his love

Flying towards her
with hope in his heart
plans...

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(Director John Huston had, previously to
this shoot, killed an elephant under
controversial circumstances.  Here he
discusses his cast and crew.  "Wallaby"
is his nickname for Eli Wallach.)


White Hunter, Black Heart 

She had no technique. 
If anyone...

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New York, New York, the road in the fork  
   of the events, the places and folks who've buttered the pork

Like Rockefeller, Moynihan and Andrew Cuomo
   Frank Sinatra, Louie Armstrong,...

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(Here, Clark Gable is speaking.
Gaylord Langland was the character
he played in the just-completed
movie.  "Trotsky" is his nickname
for Arthur Miller and the "little
girl" is Marilyn Monroe.  Gable did
not attend the wrap party and died...

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Our words are a heavy foot on the accelerator;

memories that just won’t let up

Pressing,

and            

         ...

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Sugar drops and colored gumballs,
An open skyline, an open convertible, and a white ragtop!
Black Perrelis, red caps, and spoked mag-frames,
Pacific Coast Highway, and her stairway to heaven!

A thousand charged horses on pure octane!
My deliverance, black...

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The new book “Fragments” refresh the 
The image of larger-than-life American.
The “fragments” do ignite many questions
Of what turns a human being into a legend.
Personal excellence, exceptional charisma
Intellect, strength or beauty? Or it can be
Unusual capacity...

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