“The Oscar Statue” by tezebe
shallow courtiers
donning crowns for applause
pretending we care
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Photo from ‘The Guardian’
(Originally posted February 2014)
(For Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967-2014)
what agony pierces the veins
with such pleasure that art
must be murdered by muscle
and malice self-loathing the
criminal mastermind inside
the psycho-biology tortured
by exquisite talent and pain
breaks the hearts that erupt
in applause moved and lifted
aloft by a consummate body
of work time and over again
left to grieve and consider why
some gifts are so ill-endowed
with inherently punishing
conflict of blessing and curse
“The Oscar Statue” by tezebe
shallow courtiers
donning crowns for applause
pretending we care
Clip Art from pinterest.com
innocent pigtails
sleepwalked in
red ruby slippers
right into reality
wakeful with war
waged between
good and evil
peopled by villains
unlikely heroes
and charlatans
brandishing power
Scene from “Citizen Kane”
(Regarding “Citizen Kane”)
end of innocence
imprints its tragedy
under the skin
upon lips in extremis
failed man of great
worthless success
in mad grip of
insatiable wants
all alone in a crowd
of dead lovers
forsaken by friends
held forever in pity
he deeply despised
bitter irony
ever remembered
as less than
he thought of himself
crystal snowglobe
of dreams
fallen shattered
a boyhood sled
source of his
long absent joy
now consigned to
indifferent cold
plebian flames
Ian Fleming
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escape from uncertain
commitments of loyalty
black and white
starkly recolors reality
simplifies quandaries
troubling the
unsettled mind
no muddlings of gray
in fictional formulas
rife with exotica
globe-trotting lusty
adventures with
dangerous svelte
femmes fatale
nifty ultra-tech gadgets
galore augment
cracking good
blood pumping action
an ethical feast for
the violent appetite
always and ever
to culminate in the
most highly conceived
innovative demise
of its dastardly dark
unambiguous villains
Fleming and Bond
always comfortably
counted among
guilty pleasures
a pair whose good
company lightens
a dull afternoon
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“History is moving pretty quickly these days,
and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”
― Ian Fleming
Movie Poster Image
From freedownloadmovies.tv
(Regarding “The African Queen”)
the chug of a coal fired boiler
gave gruff grumbling voice
to a tall tin can stack with
inflections of both Bogey’s
grit and Kate’s schooled
raspy burr joining steam
to the river mist hovering
over hot jungles a journey
of desperate survival through
German East Africa fraught
with the outreach of war
gunboat intrigue and passion
of juxtaposition a romance
of accident driving toward
imminent tragedy patent
with Huston’s intensity
built to explosive conclusion
a denouement nicely endowed
with a classical ethos
they sure as hell
don’t anymore
make them quite
like they used to
“High Noon” Movie Poster
From ebay.com
the gunfighter’s hour
no shadows no advantage
crickets and clock ticks
Burgess Meredith as Mickey Goldmill in “Rocky”
Photo from blogs.amctv.com
According to Mickey, who trained Rocky under
Such dire conditions that one had to wonder
If he’d get knocked dead,
But the wily Mick said,
“You’re gonna eat lightning! You’re gonna crap thunder!”
According to Mickey, who trained Rocky under
Such dire conditions that one had to wonder
If he’d get knocked dead,
But the little Mick said,
“You’re gonna eat lightning!. You’re gonna crap thunder!”
(Mickey Goldmill was the name of the fight trainer character played by Burgess Meredith in the early “Rocky” movies)
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