A poem using movie titles of the 70’s
We could not believe
Woodstock
was on the big screen
as it turns out, so was
The Go-Between
Some of us were
Lovers and Others Strangers
The Wild Child
never knew about the dangers
of having no
Bed and Board
There was little
we could afford
Three Sisters
made love
to all
The Boys in the Band
A First Love
was hard to understand
A true
Love Story
who knew that
Ryan’s Daughter was
A Virgin and a Gypsy
No doubt
A Catch 22
The People Next Door
The Aristocrats in town
some begged a smile
and all of them frowned
Joe, their neighbor, was
The Man Called Horse
He was also
The American Soldier
who spoke up that day
and yelled without remorse
Start the Revolution Without Me
And deep in the imagination
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
there was no escaping
The Owl and The Pussycat
Imagine that
these movies all happened
the year of my graduation
when nothing was left to the imagination
yet we all wondered how the heck
Cotton Comes to Harlem
116th Street to be exact
Good Old Ben Franklin
to be exact
And as the song says
On a Clear day You Can See Forever
the End of the Road
or the light in the tunnel
For the Great White Hope
That is a fact!
Melba Christie (c) 2013
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Cover of Start the Revolution Without Me
Cotton Comes to Harlem (novel) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Poemattic: Poetry and Art for the Soul 
Very cleverly contrived and well written.
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Thanks so much. I think it was a great year.
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yep, it was our decade.
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