Tag Archives: Movies

Red Walk

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Helen

This young lady in red Queen of all she surveys See as she climbs See how she sways They’ll be talking about her For days This queen of the screen Up the staircase she climbs She how she glows Everyone … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire, Poetry | Tagged fame, Movies, Queen, star, stardom | 2 Comments

Summer Sea Memory

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Helen

Flickering like old movies On wartime movie screens Summer sea memory Greets me In a waking dream Part beautiful and part dread It’s nothing like it seems Summer sea memory Haunts me In a waking dream Pinned like butterflies shivering … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged Beauty, dread, Dreams, fear, memories, Movies, sea, summer, trapped, waking dream | 3 Comments

Cinematique

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Helen

She had mystique Cinematique Famous directors Brooded on her face But of such passion Never a trace Never a trace She was sympathetic Cinematique But for their yearning She felt not a thing This bird barely spoke And never would … Continue reading →

Posted in Air, Poetry | Tagged Arts, choice, cinema, delusion, denial, dissociation, Dreams, fashion, Filmmaking, glamour, greta garbo, icon, Movies, passion, truth | 18 Comments

The Hobbit – a (probably not) Unexpected Reaction

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Helen

I have to admit, I’m a sook. About certain things. It’s embarrassing really. My particular Achilles Heel, for whatever reason, is honor. You practically only have to say the word and tears spring to my eyes. Continue and actually recount … Continue reading →