Tag: movies

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 186

Day 186: “The Movies”

We come to this place

To be transported

Another place

Another time

Another version of ourselves

We have aspirations

Fears

Laughs

We want to see play out

We push the button

Put our feet up

And relax into 2 hours of large-screen hilarity

Or passion

Or terror

Or whatever most excites us

We gawk at the previews

Planning our next move

Excited to see what our neighbor deems unwatchable

The lights dim

The movie starts

We’ll exit once the sun goes down

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 119

Day 119: “Movie Review”

Have you ever gone to a movie

Not knowing what to expect

I read the synopsis

But it was so not what I thought

I wanted to watch an unlikely love story

Connecting against all odds

Falling in love in an unlikely place

A story of perseverance

Growth

Resilience

Of seeing and being seen

Instead I saw a devolution

A chaotic, vengeful mess

Lord-of-the-flies-esque mania

A thirst for power

At the expense of everyone else

I didn’t hate it

I saw what the filmmakers were trying to do

I just don’t feel like it all worked

Next time I think I’ll just help myself by seeing a different movie

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 93

Day 93: “The Realization at the End of a Movie”

What I’ve realized

Is that my dreams don’t have to make sense to anyone else

They don’t have to yearn the way I do

For the future I want

They don’t have to get it

Maybe they won’t

But I know I have something to offer this world

Something meaningful

“That’s nice, but I asked you what side you wanted. It comes with fries, but you can substitute for a salad instead.”

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 90

Day 90: “If My Life Was Written and Directed by Nora Ephron”

Sometimes I imagine what it’d be like 

To live in a 90s rom com 

I’d live in New York 

Obviously 

I’d own a book store

Or be a writer

Or be a writer who owns a book store

And I’d meet the love of my life online 

My computer chiming, “You’ve got mail”

I’d wear clothes that are comfy, effortless, stylish 

My name would be an alliteration 

I’d battle the big bad chain store

Only to be put out of business and have to start my life over

Have to chase other dreams

And the love I met online would end up doing the tiny, little thing — you know, putting me out of business 

Yet he’d regain my trust

Become my friend 

And then we’d meet 

And kiss in Riverside Park 

And I’d publish a children’s book

Well, my life is not written and directed by Nora Ephron

But I’ve found my love

We did meet online

Just via an app instead of a chat room

I already model my fashion after Meg Ryan in the 90s

Now I just have to chase my dreams 

Become a bookshop owner 

Or a writer 

Or a writer who owns a book shop 

Publish a book 

And live happily ever after