My Time With An Oscar Winner
...Pangiota’s Personal Meeting with Oscar Winner,
George Chakiris of “West Side Story”…. 1961
You were alarmingly affable and delightful.
Accepting, and so very, very sweet,
To have a special-on...
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Categories:
natalie wood, courage, fun, joy, memory,
Form: Quatrain
Hollywood
...The victim list keeps growing
But no one really cares
The gristmill claims another one
Keep your hands in and don't stare
Hollywood is the golden land
The eternal silver screen
But ...
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Categories:
natalie wood, america, betrayal, culture, loneliness,
Form: Epic
That's How I Roll the Dice
...Knock on wood
I'm back in the hood
Acting like the late famed Natalie Wood
Life sure ain't what it used to be
In fact it's a bit of a mystery
Many live it out how they see in misery
Bu that's n...
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Categories:
natalie wood, art,
Form: Free verse
Splendor
..."Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower
We will grieve not, but rather find
Strength in what remains behind."
Wordsworth
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Yout...
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Categories:
natalie wood, depression, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
In a Day Like Today
...~In A Day Like Today~
(Sonnet)
For winter,kind of cool here,yes,it was
Very nice today,completed quite some,a bit
Then just relaxed,reflected 'long,did sit
After many chores I've...
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Categories:
natalie wood, culture, history, world,
Form: Sonnet
Goodbye Garner
...He starred in 'Move Over Darling', 'Grand Prix' and other flicks.
He was James Garner and sadly, he died at the age of eighty-six.
He starred as Wyatt Earp in 'Hour Of The Gun'.
Six years later he...
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Categories:
natalie wood, death, dedication, farewell, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Bazooka Joe Is Gum - 1000 Ways To Die
...David slings a rock
Cop holsters a glock, Lizzie Borden packs an axe
Mac he packs the knife, Billy battles with a club, Tommy’s gun is a sub
Kelly’s got one too, Bazooka Joe Is Gum, Peter Gun...
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Categories:
natalie wood, conflict, courage, death, metaphor,
Form: Shape
Echoes of Glitter
..."Splendor in the Grass" can hardly breathe
A beauty in the fearful, destined waters
Not even Santa Catalina can lift up Natalie -
An angel fallen in the hands of Evil -
Macabre mask of rotten j...
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Categories:
natalie wood, death, loss, mystery,
Form: Free verse