The watchers sit around watching the doers do!
Who does that apply to, could it be you?
Are you a watcher or a doer, which one applies?
Be honest with yourself, without the lies.
Doers do what the watchers cannot
But without watchers the doers might not.
Is it that the doers need watchers, might that be the fact?
That the watchers and doers need to interact?
Maybe the watchers get the bad press,
Maybe the doers are there to impress,
But surely the doers are the ones that do
And the watchers don’t, that has to be true.
I’m not sure I’m a doer, maybe I am
Hopefully I’m not a watcher but if I am, damn!
A doer is surely where it’s at, don’t you think?
But if I’m a watcher, my armour has a chink!
Be a doer and not a watcher because without a doubt
Being a doer gives you far greater clout
But if your a watcher, you must contemplate
Becoming a doer before it’s too late!!
N. B. This poem was inspired by a line delivered by Jane Fonda, in the film ‘barefoot in the park’, when she referred to her husband, played by Robert Redford , as a watcher - ‘there are watchers in this world and there are doers and the watchers sit around watching the doers do!’
Categories:
redford, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
These are the male names I rhymed.
It has taken some thyme.
Tome-Jerome, Guillaume
Richard- Redford,Clifford,Conuford
Willard-Gerard,Barnard,Cunard
Wilton, Parton, Clayton, Keaton
Wayne- Dwane,Germine,Jermaine
Rolland-Gilbert,Eabert, Delbert, Norbert
Ronnie- Johnny, Lonnie
Jerry- Barry, Gary, Harry, Larry,Geoffery
Derek- Garrick, Eric, Herrick, Fredrick
Raymond- Grimond, Richmond, Osmind
Categories:
redford, creation,
Form: Rhyme
T The wide belts, hip-huggers, bell bottom pants
H Hip people dress like Sonny and Cher
E Everyone loves Carol Burnet, Harvey Korman, and Bonanza
S Singers cannot compete with Barbara Striesand
E Everyone Knows Tony Orlando and Dawn
V Very important to move away from home at 18
E Every country music lover knows Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson
N New show about a single woman, featuring Mary Tyler Moore
T Too cute Marlo Thomas steals our hearts
I I am sorry to report we are still in Viet Nam
E Everyone sees Bette Midler, Tina Turner, and Robert Redford
S Suddenly everyone is wearing tops that look maternity
Categories:
redford, nostalgia,
Form: Acrostic
When I called with a message one time,
you would think I"d committed a crime!
Just for doing my job,
I got screamed at by "Rob,"
so for me, Redford's name is now slime.
Sept. 14, 2017 for Kevin Shaw's Name Dropper Limerick Contest
Note: This is based on my one telephone encounter with Robert Redford when I worked for an answering service that served him in Utah. Please see About Poem above for more details!
Categories:
redford, people,
Form: Limerick
There I was at cinema in the 70s
being a cowboy fan this all I did
so went to see latest fad at the movies
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
It had real stars like Paul Newman
Robert Redford and Katherine Ross
what a pair were Butch and Sundance
robbed many a bank showing who's boss
The highlight was my favourite song
raindrops keep falling on my head
Ross and Newman riding on that bike
such harmony whenever script read
whenever rain falls through the sun
one thinks immediately of fav song
making one's mind instantly to remember
so start yourself to always sing along
So good now have movie on DVD
play as often as one does want
get favourite song on youtube too
so go on look it up now real pront!
(My favourite song of 70s was 'Raindrops keep falling on my head' from one of my all time fav movies ' Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' )
Categories:
redford, life, music, space,
Form: Rhyme
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
Categories:
redford, art, culture, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Valentino , Errol Flynn such stars of the silver screen
Garbo , Bacall and Davis movie stars that all have been
Grace Kelly had such beauty Audrey Hepburn was the Queen
Bogart ,Fonda and and Brando got hearts racing in every scene
Pacino , Redford and Poitier ,James Stewart and Steve McQueen
Elizabeth Taylor ,Sophia Loren ,original divas unforeseen
Generations passed and so do they ,no longer to make me dream
But the stars that gave us so much grace will always be on my screen
Categories:
redford, film,
Form: Rhyme
It's never explained
why she and her son were spared
in the raid on their homestead
It drove her insane
and her boy became a mute
She sent him off with Johnson
Now she was revered
as 'big medicine' and 'touched'
by the Great Spirit to walk
in the unseen realm
Living in parallel worlds...
One of the chosen people
The Crazy Mountains
in the state of Montana
were named in honor of her
by Crow Indians
Respect the mentally ill
(They may know something we don't)
*The 'crazy woman' from the movie Jeremiah Johnson - 1972
with Robert Redford, Will Geer and Allyn Ann McLerie as the woman
The movie is based on a true story
Categories:
redford, adventure, crazy, native american,
Form: Choka
A mole is one of those peculiar things
Amazing, in fact, the reaction it brings!
Depending of course, whoever might wear it
It can be either quite icky, or an asset to bear it
Now take witches riding broomsticks...or Nanny McPhee
We would say "UGH!"...."How disgusting"
"Get that ugly thing away from me!!"
But take Robert Redford, with two on his cheek
Or Robert DeNiro.....considered quite chic!
Elizabeth Taylor, had a black beauty mark
As a beautiful girl, ...it added some spark!
If a mole serves a purpose....it doesn't play fair
A mole is peculiar...............but why should we care???
Categories:
redford, life, people
Form: Rhyme
"Come on....let's jump!!" Butch Cassidy said
Sundance screamed out..."Oh no...I can't swim!"...
"Are you kidding me??".. ."We'll both be dead!!"
"Come on...let's jump!!!!" Butch Cassidy said..
"You must be nuts!!" "How high is this ledge??"
"We have no choice!!"......"Here they come again!!"
"Come on...LET'S JUMP!!...Butch Cassidy said......
Sundance screamed out..."OOOOHHH....NOOOOOOOOOO I CAANN'TT SWWIIIMMMMMM!!!!!!"
From "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
starred: (Paul Newman and Robert Redford, two of the best !)
Categories:
redford, adventure, people
Form: Triolet