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Short Humphrey Bogart Poems

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Premium Member Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart 
Played a slimy part 
With- the leeches, scene 
In- "The African Queen"...

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Categories: humphrey bogart, humor,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member Humphrey Bogart
     Tough-talking film-noir luminary, Humphrey Bogart.
     His distinctive snarling voice and lisp set him apart.
     
  Swept film noir leading lady, Lauren Bacall, off her feet.
Diminutive, sarcastic; played characters that packed heat.
...

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Categories: humphrey bogart, appreciation, celebrity, people, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Leading Men
Errol Flynn a swashbuckler
he was also a wrangler

Jack Webb loved LA
gave us Joe Friday

Kevin Bacon brought us footloose
many years after Mother Goose

Humphrey Bogart had many roles
his acting on screen without holes

John Wayne cowboy and soldier
neither one was more bolder...

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Categories: humphrey bogart, men, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Small People
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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Categories: humphrey bogart, hate, how i feel, life, people, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Loss of Innocence
Cruelty danced 'cross his stencilled mustache
  Sparks of Evil flashed from his roving eye
A wicked Sneer curled 'round his too-thin lips
  His fingers like claws bespoke a master spy

Trench-coat pulled tight 'gainst the pounding rain
  Stealthy his gait down the dark narrow lane
Alas! Two bullets lodged in his fiendish heart
  Real life's not Hollywood, Mr. Humphrey Bogart...

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Categories: humphrey bogart, dark, evil, film, irony,
Form: Rhyme




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