2008-03-14 - 6:58 p.m.
A friend started a group on Facebook called “Movie Haiku”. When I joined, her boyfriend (who is the crew coxswain in this entry) insisted I write this poem:
A poor parson and
a rich heiress – bound by their
passion for gambling!
Neither of us ever actually saw the movie, but there were a lot of commercials for it. I used to torment him with the line “A poor parson and a rich heiress bound together by their passion – their passion for gambling!”
I’d written a few other movie haiku before that:
The Matrix
What is the Matrix?
When they pan on folks kicking
mid-jump - I mean, whoa...
James Bond (OK, not really a single movie...)
Who was the best Bond -
Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan,
Timothy Dalton?
Blade Runner
Future of nineteen
seventy-nine makes for the
best movie ever...
Nya wrote some great ones too:
Song of the South
Zip-a-dee-doo-da
Disney says “Keep moving, folks.
Nothing to see here.”
Leaving Las Vegas
Hooker with gold heart
watches drunk drown his sorrows.
The House always wins.
Juno
Awkward teen age sex
leads to unplanned pregnancy
Man, that takes me back.
© 2008 Geoff Gladstone
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