Short Silver Screen Poems

Heroes of the silver screen
Dancing amongst the bullets
Real life Dead cert.

© Harry J Horsman 2018...

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Making an escape
Out into another realm
Various worlds 
In two and a half hours 
Endless legends are born 
Silver screen eternity...

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Happy birthday, dear Jocelyn, 
Moviegoers wait for the film; 
Such people love the silver screen; 
The ticket results overwhelm. 

Topic: Birthday of Jocelyn C. Suguitan (March 24)...

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God you are beautiful
With your hair undone
So little few

This I said as she was projected 
By a silver screen
Is it a dream
Is thismy life passing
Like a film
I really want to see again....

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cowboys ruled the silver screen
back when the money was green

and the Lone Ranger was seen
on our television screen

all was nice back then
was no mother hen

growing old isn't fun
but its life's final run...

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O, to be a famous actress
  A star of the silver screen
To revel in the tawdry tinsel
  The glitter of girlhood dreams

O, starstruck fame-seeker
  Is Life a clever ruse 
  to be acted on a stage

Where's your zest to love and live it 
  ~ Hope you reengage...

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pottery wheel spun
clay covered her face and hands –
     his passion aroused

Righteous Brothers hit 
Unchained Melody playing –
     spell of passion cast

true love never chained
romance fills the silver screen --
      setting hearts afire



*Entry for Andrea and Nikko’s “Movie Scene” senryu...

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Scream Queen.
Silver Screen.
Rave action scenes.
Back in the day.
A dated matinee.
Two bits the fee.
Orange crush is a treat.
Popcorn queue waits.
Salt and butter to taste.
Soft Sixth-row seat.
Newsreel review.
Latest previews.
Stop motion Anime.
King Kong Figurine.
Vina Fay Wray,
A Lady of Fame....

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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...

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Synonymous with my childhood
A metaphor for adventure;
If anyone could do it he could ,
His spirit never fractured; 

He could beguile 
with a whip or a blaster;
Or even with his smile,
Every tool mastered;

A Silver Screen Titan
Filled with sarcastic discord;
Each character an icon, 
the unstoppable Harrison Ford....

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Listen to poem:

Slow Motion
David J Walker

I have slowed the motion
Of old film from the past 

Watching frame by frame
The changes 
As they came 

The slight nuance of
The passing time in
Flickering light to
The silver screen 

And what I might have
never seen 
Even in a closeup at
Full speed

Was that me
In the eye of the
Projector?...

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in reminiscence I recall-
the simple things,the fol-de-rol
the somersaults but most of all
I remember gumby!

for every matinee I'd seen
in salad days when I was green
hats off to the silver screen
I remember gumby!

a royal breed of moral code
a loyal steed to share the load
to whom I dedicate this ode...
I still remember gumby!...

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Sitting in the darkness
We stare at the technique harlot screen
Where a see-through celluloid sex symbol
Stands, hands thrust crotchward,
The air tearing at her pleats.

She is spread wide upon the silver screen
Her flesh still there
Her breasts still inviting 
The lie sensuous dream.
Shattered as the credits fall.
No curtain call
Yet still she will be back for more....

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Incubation was not 
complete. The thirst of
thoughts will find a
convoluted shell-
wrapping up the kernel.

Throw a stone on the 
sinner. This was on
me. I will accept the 
rocks to open up-
a fountain.

There was a silver screen 
for the lovers. You will 
not regret for the raw
emotions. A sperm whale 
in the sea will spew-
a streams of profanities.


Satish Verma...

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When I was only seventeen,
I met my darling Norma Jeane.
And I, still wet behind the ears,
Emboldened by too many beers,
Approached her and forgot my fears,
Became the envy of my peers -
But knew our love would end in tears.
And after many lonesome years,
I saw her on the silver screen -
And dreamed of how it could have been…

Using Duo-Rhyme, a form by Mary Ports, for Andrea’s Duo-Rhyme contest...

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I unlock my strongbox. My old mind is crammed with silver screen gold. I manipulate, polish, reshape, bend. Eclectic draught, a childhood net, a lifetime’s catch. All that l gleam, imagination stew and the pervious present, preserved.

a black and white film
colorized and good remake —
truth sought in sequel

RHYMES AND REASONS Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
5/31/2020...

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Beloved universal mime 
Heightened the fun fare of showtime. 

Little Tramp in ill-fitting suit 
Stirred sound commotion, all in mute. 

Grotesque, and comic, and absurd -
He said it all without a word. 

No fancy props, he worked the crowd 
To poignant tears or laughs out loud.

Silver screen long evolved the mode 
Far and beyond the silent code. 

The walk of fame long overdue -
Hats off to Charlie that we knew!

March 4, 2022...

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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...

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