The Reel Scripted Love Story
...I feel most free when
Authoring the email and just press ‘send’
Letting go
From someone I left in the snow
A partner ever so cold
Decided this relationship hand I will fold ...
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Categories:
movie house, film, holiday, love, muse,
Form: Rhyme
More Than Race-F
...Despite the day-to-day signs of man’s bitter degradation, there were many in the South who somehow still failed to see the endless pain of segregation. From the viewpoint of those who never lived the...
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Categories:
movie house, america, family, race,
Form: Narrative
In the Movie House
...There are many souls who into nature go
to ponder thoughts; for me, this is not the case.
There are many spots where I can let thoughts flow!
But if not in bed and dreaming, I erase
my tensions b...
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Categories:
movie house, happy,
Form: Rispetto
Remember My Youth Compare It Now
...I lived in the early-mid 70s so very different
being a lonely soul not socially active
lived in the countryside with not a friend
didn't really mind it as made me selective
This was me living ...
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Categories:
movie house, life, memory, teenage, youth,
Form: Rhyme
The Storyteller
...Having an obvious proclivity for story-telling,
the old man leaned forward in his chair,
eager to impress the grey-haired men gathered around him
while he continued with the saga of ...
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Categories:
movie house, men,
Form: Narrative
Charlieku - Recalling 5 By 5
...Recalling Laughing Reading Learning Teaching myself
the flicker of into night with all of the to cook and how to wear
fireflies m...
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Categories:
movie house, memory,
Form: Haiku
A Trick My Father Learned In Prison
...I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be told, he despise...
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Categories:
movie house, ireland, prison, war, ,
Form: Prose
Amidst the Sorrow - Aurora Does Shine
...Twas a dark knight,
whence there came a pawn the hushed crowded movie house
A phantom of horror sprung out of the rookery that wrought deadly havoc
Renting asunder innocent audience members
Anti...
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Categories:
movie house, anger, bereavement, conflict, crazy,
Form: I do not know?
There Is Where Most Likely You Will Find Me
...On a winter or fall’s eve, dark and deep,
snuggled in my bed, I’ll be fast asleep,
but online (if Sandman acts unkindly);
there is where most likely you will find me!
In spring or summer, I’ll ...
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Categories:
movie house, life,
Form: Kyrielle
Around the Corner
...around the corner...just!
light brilliant...trees freshly brushed...
a breeze meandering through the grass...
a baby blue sky, an occasional cloud shaped and reshaped,
...a waterfall ro...
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Categories:
movie house, introspection, mother,
Form: Free verse
Fragrance of Life
...Fragrance of Life ©
Cool rain drums on blistering
asphalt, the scent streams into
the nostrils--hot, grassy smell of
summer, freshly cut-smoky
cedar lingers on the air
Fresh popcorn d...
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Categories:
movie house, life, senses,
Form: Free verse
Pop Corn
...am in the movie house
i don't look for mouse
no douse
my mind is torn
i was born
to eat
POP CORN...
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Categories:
movie house, addiction, humor,
Form: Light Verse
In the Movie House Romance
...as we set it was you bet
lay back seat
we held like a feat
sug and rug
each other theater was dark
so we got a good start
it was our chance
IN THE MOVIE HOUSE
ROMANCE...
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Categories:
movie house, adventure, fire, flower,
Form: Prose Poetry
Palermo, Sicily, 1943
...for George
"You always said you had little invisible friends,"
He wrote in a Christmas card one year, and Yes,
funny he would remember that. I called them Shovel,
Hoe, and BicaBacaBoca, all of indet...
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Categories:
movie house, family,
Form: Free verse
A True Valentine's Day Story
...A TRUE VALENTINE'S DAY STORY
When I was just a young chap
of 16 years or so,
I had a gorgeous girlfriend
The kind you'd love to know.
I didn't have much money then
but I'd take her to a show
just a...
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Categories:
movie house, valentines day, valentines day,
Form: Light Verse
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