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Life after cinema (part 1)

hgfj · 2020-01-23 15:31:53

When the curtain falls and all the shaded lights turn bright, and restless bodies rise, and eyes that connect in the sudden glare witness that rare instant when recognition becomes obscene, then the screen that flickered and dimmed and died can finally hide, to become merely memorised, yet still forgotten, behind the…

23-01-2020 4:31pm

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hgfj

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When the curtain falls and all
the shaded lights turn bright,
and restless bodies rise, and eyes
that connect in the sudden glare
witness that rare instant
when recognition becomes obscene,
then the screen that flickered
and dimmed and died can finally hide,
to become merely memorised,
yet still forgotten,
behind the landed curtain.

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#2 24-01-2020 11:30pm

km85264

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I never knew the ending of a movie could be so profound. Do you really have a cinema that has a curtain?

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#3 25-01-2020 4:59pm

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km85264 wrote: »

I never knew the ending of a movie could be so profound. Do you really have a cinema that has a curtain?

Back in the late seventies or early eighties whenever I first wrote this poem, 40 odd years ago, - yes.

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#4 23-07-2020 10:13am

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I don't like the echo of "rise" and "eyes" in the third line; rhymes too close always sound amateurish to me.

I don't understand why "recognition becomes obscene".

Other than that, it's a nice short poem.

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