“Rest Easy, Captain”
Christopher Plummer, Captain, friend
You’ve heard the final curtain call.
Gracefully, fade to black, the end
Rest easy ‘neath your burial pall.
Jan 26, 2022
Tip your hat to Plummer, his well-deserved claim to fame,
Gracing us with class acts in more than seven decades.
"Captain", I insist, among your "clean, bright" accolades
The Sound of Music's Edelweiss echoes with your name.
January 18, 2022
Christopher Plummer, an icon of silver screen,
most elegant of actors there has ever been,
be it the Sound of music or King Lear on stage,
Your exceptional acting defied time and age.
2nd placement
Written 11/01/2022
Celebrity epitaph poetry contest
Michelle Faulkner sponsored
12 syllables x 4 lines
In here lies
Christopher Plummer
Known for as
‘ Captain von Trapp
in The Sound Of Music'
Or was not Edelweiss for him.
03/01/22
A Celebrity Epitaph Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Michelle Faulkner
Christopher Plummer above the stars
Where the hills are alive
With the sound of music
And songs of a thousand years
Christopher Plummer, 1929-2021, was a successful stage and film actor who played Baron Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music,1965
For: A Celebrity Epitaph Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Michelle Faulkner.
January 3, 2022
Adieu beloved Captain of my cherished dreams,
starry-eyed audience, with your captivating smile!
A legendary hero, shining knight on screen,
magnetic charisma, inimitable style!
January 3, 2021
For "A Celebrity Epitaph" Poetry Contest
Theme: Remembering Christopher Plummer, Canadian Actor, who passed away in May, 2021.
Sponsor: Michelle Faulkner
Flitting's like floating
only with
the least amount
and most
ineffectual
intention.
Intention
without
clarity
without
conviction
without
direction
without
without.
Each waft
a contravention.
Somersault of
summer
butterflies,
but better:
butterflits...
Plummer salts
of Winter,
snowfalls
but better:
snowflits...
Though flitting's
altogether fitting
if near-enough
to Surrender
is your kind of
Splendor.
Papers, Billboards, Cinema Screen
Headlines, Images, Magazines
Pictures, Quotes, Caricatures and parts
Welder, Allen, Clooney and Marx.
Eastwood, Tracey, Pitt and Dean
Just a few of the best I’ve seen
Fonda, Newman, Guinness and Wayne, O.M.G
Citizen Cane
Vertigo, Psycho, Singing in the rain,
Curtis, Lemmon, Redford and Plummer
What did you do hay last summer?
So many greats this is just a fraction
Shush be quiet
Lights, Camera, Action
Written by M. BURTON
the evergreen has started to darken as our lips meet
beauty overcomes us while we watch the flames devour the forests
yet nothing burns, only the passion i feel for you
fires end has come once more i see her eyes, all else is collected of their beauty
we cannot compare to her eyes while the flame dies
this stranger stares at me smiling
she says "i am autumn come with me, we are meant to be"
the evergreen starts to darken as our lips meet while we are devoured by the flames
none can compare to her beauty
Contest Falling in Love in the Fall
Ethan Plummer
~time is the ultimate teacher, unfortunately i kills all of its students~
my footprints indent the sand as i hike towards the structure, darkened by the neglect of human care and the love of the ocean waves that lap against it, but she stands tall for it is her time to leave, and as my footprints indented in the soft sand are greeted by those loving, caring waves they disappear, i look back for her and all is new and the waves begins to embrace the church once more
Ethan Plummer
the church by the ocean
9-27-11
Dad not all should be called by this name, for it is an honor and a duty. Some call us
father, some say daddy and some just call us pop...no matter how you say it? If you fail
to do any of these assignments, you failed not just your child, but everyone.
I'm a chef, a maid, a parent, a teacher, a lawyer, carpenter, Plummer, painter, doctor,
trash man, chauffer, guard, friend, enemy, Sheppard, defender and daddy. I get days off
sometime… but my real pay comes when I teach my children correctly, I work some nights
and sometimes even on my day off when needed or when called, I only get off
when sick but always still on guard...This is not a job but an assignment from God... and God
knows... that we all will suffer if I should fail any part of my assignment, but when I get it
right? Angels rejoice and God smiles!
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