On A Nightmare
She was crying, calling aloud my name!
I heard her here at midnight my son,
You were fast asleep.
Imprisoned in a deep well-like bricks structure
Like Well of Death, stuntmen drive motorcycles and cars
On the wooden walls.
And her spouse, a sick doctor
Is patrolling around outside
Stamping his foot, loud laughing
And whipping in air in anger.
I will have to go, son,
Riding the fiery horse
And fight the brute, and save her!
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The year is nineteen hundred eighty-six,
the biggest action, music, plots play through.
Behold the crowds are raving, buying ticks!
Top Gun, the movie’s here and overdue.
While brave Tom Cruise, the hero, rims the sky,
it’s really only stuntmen on those planes.
And to be sure, a romance follows nigh -
the female fans expect that love will reign.
Parental guidance warns some shoddy talk,
which gives the picture young adult appeal.
The sexy scenes are clean as new white chalk;
a final song provides nostalgic feel.
The mix for Top Gun 2, as yet unknown -
they must incorporate a role for drones.
Reason A. Poteet
09 Oct 2014
iambic pentameter for Giorgio's Contest III
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