Short Casablanca Poems

Casablanca
by Rick Rucker

Rick 
Visas
World Freedom
Beating Nazis
Loss
...

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In hundreds of bars
If not in Casablanca 
his name is proudly displayed 
Hemingway
Alcoholism made trendy...

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How can their love end?
Not by German or French men...
not even by plane.


For "Senryu A Movie Scene" sponsored by Andrea Dietrich....

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Rick is willilng to sacrifice his happiness
As Ilsa was willing to sacrifice her husband's love
Both unwilling pawns created by a war
neither of them started or will finish...

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anti-Nazi theme
Rick’s Café Américain-
play it again Sam ;)






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com...

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what is it..
   over there?
it echos
through     
        my memory:
what is it
      over there?
hark!
it's coming
     nearer
...the theme returns...
what is it?
       hark
now it's here...
....at last

Inspired by Casablanca theme piano version clip...

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You did a beaUTIFUL THING Boss
Tp f### a perfect future all over again all over a woman,
,he met himsef comin back and he said to himself its pointless without love,
round up the usual suspects,
This very same thing happened to me just last year,
THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP,
Scream the GODS....

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Some invite my contempt,
Others, my ridicule,  
Some are opposite sublime,
But none deserves my time.




Inspired by the following exchange between Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Ugarte (Peter Lorre) in Casablanca (1942):

Ugarte: You despise me, don’t you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought, I probably would....

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The old tree Lee had the seed of an idea
                                    He wanted blisters on skin for diarrhea
                                         Meeting was held in Casablanca
                                           All wrote limerick haiku tanka
                                     Compost bed urea soup and Cytherea
















© Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty
18 December 2014...

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Sweet peas,
Sweet corn,
Sweet the clue,
That does adorn,
The sweetest thing
I've ever seen,
Since I was born...

Like "Casablanca"
Embracing at an airport,
But not for "Goodbye"
But here to "court"

No way, but 
A short while ago,
Would I ever,
Dare to believe,
This could ever be so...

Life carries some surprises,
Some are awful sweet,
Not every one,
Ends in some 
horrible defeat...

I'll ask no more,
Of my God above,
Because he has returned
Your precious love....

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