Cinefreq In Expression: Poems

Hi Cinema Frequenter!

I am delighted that you chose to jump off the deep end and take a journey through some millenium to present day American cinema this way. These poems can be seen as movie- inspired poetry alone, or riddles complete with the movie following. So, read through this small collection and try to guess what movie each poem is inspired by or hints at. As a disclaimer, I have no affiliation with the movies or actors mentioned herein whatsoever. Have fun!

Contend

I am a tawny river incarnate,

A flow of chocolaty bliss,

A decadent mass explosion,

From fist to violent kick.

Don't mistake these massive tresses,

Or clothes that I adorn.

For I'm a broken woman,

Misused, abused, torn.

My MO, you see, is simple,

"get yours, don't let 'em get you."

We must be our own creator of

rights that we are due.

This last one's the payback,

Sealing all of my street cred.

Life wIll never find me wanting,

It would sooner find me dead.

Inspiration: Jackie Brown (1997), Director: Quentin Tarantino.

Disclosure

Meanie gaze

O'er triple points;

Don't tread this way

No more.

Relief, I'm finding,

peace

Will come through

Snakes and disclosure.

Light my eyes, and

soften my heart

Bosom friendship

of the past.

In the flowers we will

Sit and talk,

In the flowers time

Will pass...

Hand to hand,

and hand to hand,

In summer's lurid haze.

We'll sing of love, of

Friends, of life,

And live for better days.

Inspiration: Color Purple (1986), Director: Steven Spielberg.

Dove Tales

A story locked within

my soul.

A story of both

young and old.

A story we

can borrow, true

That left us melancholy

blue.

The days were evasive,

I needed his smile, his

Strength and laugh, his

Grace and wild

Passion and smolder,

Hope in view.

I knew exactly what

I must do,

Not just for love,

but a land

In our midst,

Could not be

remedied by

A random kiss.

Bravely, I consorted

with

My true love,

in the name

Of the only Father above.

Their story, our story,

Got rolled into one,

And that my children

Is how it was done.

Movie Inspiration: One Night With the King (Christian) 2006, Dir.: Michael O. Sajbel

Fight

Around the bend,

At every turn,

A battle fought;

A lesson learned.

Brandishing swords

Of anticipation,

Purpose, pride,

Determination.

My hands will bear

the hero's scars, a

Bloody brow to end

All wars.

Our only hope,

Sheer, brutish might,

Defense and stratagem,

Will kill the monsters

in our world,

reveal

monsters

from within.

Brought by peril

to mercy's end,

Disharmony rises

from friend

To friend.

Who's the strongest?

Who should we send?

To a forever

darkening world.

The youth

will carry us

Through the night.

The youth

will make the

Wrong things right.

The youth will slaughter,

Will love, will fight, until

The journey's end.

In this we make our

strong decision,

Acting in proactive

Vision,

In unity,

without division,

We'll make our

World a better place,

We'll make our

World a better place.

Please make our world

A better place.

Movie Inspiration: The Maze Runner (2014), Director: Wes Ball

Greed

Loving one, and then another,

I'll love her first and then the

Other.

The other's way is fairer still,

Than the former's brutish will.

Soft pins and baubles,

Midnight stares,

Have found me in a bliss.

Tender words, scented gloves,

And ruby parted lips.

Hair in tendrils, faces aglow,

Fatigued in milky flesh.

Love and lust, honour trust,

All these my biggest test.

Loving one, and then another,

I'll love a one and leave the other.

My full allegiance marked near dawn,

To eradicate my foolish wrongs.

Inspiration: The Other Boelyn Girl (2008), Dir.: Justin Chadwick.

Life and Death

Always,

Two roads diverged:

Life or death.

When I met you it was

Life or death.

For us to continue was

life or death.

Our epic lovemaking

was

Life and death.

Our departure was

My life, your death.

For years life was death.

Always,

Two roads diverged.

Now...

As I stroke your face,

Take me to our special place,

Our place of salt and breezy air,

Of pomp, regality, Vanity Fair.

As evenings fade,

And nights wane by

In swirls of contrast,

waves and dry,

Read it on my epitaph,

"Star-crossed lovers

Are one at last."

Inspiration: Titanic (1997), Dir,: James Cameron

Masquerade

And if I perform

Will it make you stare?

Toss your dollars to my flair?

Or will I receive the "evil glare?"

For it's already known,

My kind, my ilk, conspiring,

Can't leave good enough alone.

You sway to my staccato,

Hold your breath to each

Tickle and catch.

But the stillness in this room

Is both freedom and a snatch.

Our experience is different, at

Every note I play.

For you the sound of treble,

To me the howl of chains.

For you an appassionato,

To me the theater masks;

The chill of slave descendants,

From just a slight time past.

A painter once said,

"There's a hue of green

to each flesh tone."

As I perform it's green

You see,

But when I'm done it's black

To bone.

Movie: Greenbook (2018), Dir. : Peter Farrelly.

Mixed

On the run and in pursuit.

Humble trust and cynical snoot.

Acumen, loyalty, all en route,

Insanely dazzle

Need-filled souls,

Desiring peace and

Merciful truth.

Could life's cold daggers

bring such recourse,

No boundaries and no

Remorse?

Block angels and knock

On demons' doors?

Take heed

o cursed deuce.

Universal to all

Is passion mixed,

Tossed in death, in life,

Familial tiffs, heated- soulful

Arguments;

Hard times mixed

Up in truce.

Love,

To perplex, to scare,

To tease, to dare,

Compare its rarity,

From bliss to sheer desparity,

Demanding faith and

Proof.

Tell me friends

what would you do?

If life was death, and death

Was truth?

If passion mixed with

Vengeful flames

Required your

Black soul

Still the same.

Tell me friends

What would you do?

Tell me now,

Of your great

view.

What would you

Do friends?

What would you do,

Just what would you do?

Movie Inspiration: Queen and Slim, Dir.: Melina Matsoukas

Obsidian

A man leaves

A man stays.

A man. A man.

A black hand.

A black hand

Shadows the darkness,

Elusively surviving from

Spell to

Spell.

Killing white, cancerous,

Disease- filled will.

Honing peace to be tangible,

And keeping hope and life

in deep supply.

Movie Inspiration: Black Panther (2018), Director: Ryan Coogler

Stay?

If I stay.

If I stay.

It will all be okay,

If I stay.

It will all be okay.

Life's frailty is like

A grain of salt,

Compounded,

Then aggravated.

It holds the power to

Hold you heady and

Senseless,

Or down on your

Knees suicidal.

There are greener

Pastures I swear.

I've had enough of the

world's cold melancholy

And dismal desolation,

Enough of the fear.

But if I stay,

It will all be okay,

Girl face your fears!

Movie Inspiration: the ending of Snowpiercer (2013), Dir.: Bong Joon Ho

The gods

So let me get this in

My head.

The main- speak flow of

Way and time.

God knows I'm a

Sucker still

for the

Distant and

cloudily defined.

Moisten my hunger

Conundrum,

I trust

Your reliable charms.

Bring order into insanity,

Let me rest within

your arms.

Oh, but you're a kidder

Still, elusive to the max.

Yet I refuse at this point

In life,

To go falling through

The cracks.

So you're about to

Be disarmed,

You won't be

disarming me.

It's what I say,

It's just like that,

It's as simple

As 1, 2, 3.

Movie Inspiration: Hidden Figures (2016), Director: Theodore Melfi

The Wraith

Here I am,

All for you.

To save you from

your constant doom,

Of shallow holes,

Of scanty tombs,

Of sleepless nights,

Of cloudy gloom.

I am that wraith to

Come at last,

Hearkening of

A distant past,

It seems on me

the lot was cast,

To do what I

must do.

Went through

Peril,

Snakes of

Doubt,

Feather of

scythe,

From bout

to bout.

Yet,

Here I am to

Draw you out.

Just take my weary hand.

Find purpose here,

This side of Heaven.

Know your worth,

Know The Land of the Living.

It's over now,

Look what you'll be given,

Life is for you too.

Movie Inspiration: Harriet (2019), Director: Kasi Lemmons

Windows

Don't give me that grave stare, like

Brazen dam to rushing river.

Know you not your circumstance,

Or the way that I must enter?

Tat, tat, tat. Amazing how life falls

Into place.

But I beseech you,

judge me not

With the look upon your face.

The way of life is natural,

The things that must be true,

So mind you of fault- findings

In whatever you will do!

Fix your thoughtful gazin',

You need to heed my name.

Do not judge me with

Your eyes,

or you'll reap the hurricane.

Inspiration: Rosemary looks into the crib in

Rosemary's Baby (1968), Dir: Roman Polanski.