The Friday Fling Celebrates Favorite Thespians!
Friday Fling #193 August 17th 2012
This month Ted Turner’s cable movie station TCM is featuring a different actor or actress all day each day in August. So we thought this would be fun: you pick from their list and write a poem about why he or she is a favorite of yours!
John Wayne
Myrna Loy
Johnny Weissmuller
Marilyn Monroe
Claude Rains
Van Heflin
Sidney Poitier
Rita Hayworth
Toshiro Mifune
Lionel Barrymore
James Mason
Ginger Rogers
Deborah Kerr
James Cagney
Lillian Gish
Elvis Presley
Katherine Hepburn
Freddie Bartholomew
Eva Marie Saint
Anthony Quinn
Kay Francis
Jack Lemmon
Gene Kelly
Irene Dunne
Tyrone Power
Gary Cooper
Jeanette MacDonald
Ava Gardner
Ingrid Bergman
Warren William
James Caan
To honor your favorite, try a Triolet. As ShadowPoetry.com notes,
A Triolet is a poetic form consisting of only 8 lines. Within a Triolet, the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital letters representing the repeated lines.
Make writing a Triolet more challenging! Make each line 8 syllables in length (4 metrical feet), written in iambic tetrameter (the more common way), or try it in pentameter (English version) where each line only has 10 syllables(5 metrical feet).
Mourning Twilight
Embrace twilight and bid farewell
to passion’s warmth and sweet caress.
A grave’s prepared where she will dwell
embrace twilight and bid farewell.
O hear the mourning of her bell
that tolls for sorrows you supress
embrace twilight and bid farewell
to passion’s warmth and sweet caress.
Copyright © 2003 Mary Ellen Clark
This week the Friday Fling elebrates acting favorites in Triolets!
Be sure to save time to read and comment favorably on your fellow Pals’ productions. Then go enjoy a mid-August weekend, maybe including a favorite film!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for August 10th
Congratulations Cherie!
Welcome everyone to the Friday Fling’s movie celebrities past tribute challenge! Pick a fave from the list in the intro, whip out your Triolet tools and go to it! Remember the important thing is always to Be Creative and Have Friggin’ Fabulous Friday Fling Fun!
A Man Man
A man he was we knew tall and brave
He gave himself to many as they rave
Charm, courage he showed in his day
A man he was we knew tall and brave
Oh, back when men were men, raised
Movies we watched still today praise
A man he was we knew tall and brave
Using phrases as we learned he gave
MISS YOU MARILYN
Marilyn Monroe pretty as a peach
Even in her speech
On others she did dwell
Even at her worst she was still just a peach
Until she did bid her farewell
Many did cry at the dwell
She was put to rest still pretty as a peach
And all was not just a speech
Written By: Bettie Davis ————————– © August 16 , 2o12
This is by Sonnet Diva! Thank you Lori for your contribution. She had a pic but couldn’t get photobucket to cooperate.
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Definitely a blonde bombshell
Sang Diamonds Are A girl’s Best friend
Poor Norma Jean we knew you well
Definitely a blond bombshell
Your death too early sad farewell
The life you lived was just pretend
Definitely a blond bombshell
Sang Diamonds are A Girls Best Friend
So many wonderful classic thespians. Wonderful theme, challenge and pieces posted. Congratulations to Cherie!! :love: :love: :love:
Cherie hugs :love: :love:
The Heartthrob Elvis
Blue Hawaii and Jailhouse Rock
Films I loved while watching him dance
My TV would have my eyes lock
Blue Hawaii and Jailhouse Rock
All the screaming ladies would flock
Wishing for a chance of romance
Blue Hawaii and Jailhouse Rock
Films I loved while watching him dance
Michelle R. King
8-16-12
Gonna try a quick one here for Elvis…golden voice he had for sure! :love:
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A rock and roll star to this day
His music will forever stay
Listen to his tunes and you’ll see
A rock and roll star to this day
Turn up the sound without delay
I know that you will so agree
A rock and roll star to this day
His music will forever stay. 🙂
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Hope I got it right! 🙄 😆 :love: :love:
lights,pens,wonderful writes
KING OF ROCK ‘ N ROLL
Teen idol star of a decade
The king of rock ‘n roll he was idolized
From ole to young had crush
In both them decade
From jail house rock to cryin the chapel
Beatlemania came in close seconds
Of course back then many was idolized
But the king had the most crush
Written By: Bettie Davis ————————- © August 16 , 2o12
GRAND FELLOW TO BE
Sidney poitier
Grand old picture that he played
On scream waz him stage
From hard knock school teacher poitier
Guess whos comin to dinner
In a matter of him way he did play
He even played the poitier
At that he waz at center stage
Written By: Bettie Davis ——————————— © August 17 , 2o12
I know he not on the list but I like Gregory Peck was my favorite. He had a movie I focus on when I read it in the 70″s and I believed in the truth and you should never judge anyone by there color. all man is treated equal m no matter where you came from.I came to this site and found all kinds of friend of all walk of life and would not trade for nothing. and when I was younger this what I believe all man kind should believe in is equal no matter what race you are and be treated fairly.
Two different people
Equal in ones eyes,
But diverse in another’s.
Trying to fight
A lengthy battle
For only what’s right
To find it doesn’t matter.
Someone is guilty,
Another is innocent,
But because of one thing
The facts won’t make a difference.
Someone is white,
Another is black.
The victor is clear before a struggle,
And there is no chance for something better.
The outcome is sure with no proof at all,
But the strong won’t give in
Without an attempt.
In a room full of insults,
And a case covered in lies,
Gary Cooper was born Frank James Cooper in Helena, Montana, one of two sons of and English farmer from Bedfordshire, who later became an American lawyer and judge, Charles Henry Cooper (1865-1946), and Kent-born Alice (née Brazier) Cooper (1873-1967). His mother hoped for their two sons to receive a better education than that available in Montana and arranged for the boys to attend Dunstable Grammar School in Bedfordshire, England between 1910 and 1913.Upon the outbreak of World War I, Cooper’s mother brought her sons home and enrolled them in a Bozeman, Montana, high school.
Started school this week getting ready for the kiddos………Fun writes by alll!!!!!!!!!! :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: