Poetry Contest

Let’s commemorate poetry month with a poetry contest about film at Cinema Paradiso.

Watch a film at Cinema Paradiso – Hollywood or Lauderdale – during the month of April.

Write a poem about it, any style, but single spaced, 12 point font in ARIAL, on  8.5” x 11” piece of paper.

Include:             Your Name

                        Email Address

                        Title of the Film

Submission:      April 30 Deadline

Email entry:       SuzzetteThePoet@gmail.com

Winner will be notified by email and announced in eblast.  Prizes can be picked up May 23 during the monthly Poetry Reading at Cinema Paradiso – Lauderdale.

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Example of a poem about film:

Jeunet

I'm missing MicMacs or was it, Mac Mic?

I remember going to FIAF on 60th in NYC

He was so approachable and real

After watching Amelie, it was hard to believe

That same guy wrote and directed Delicatessen:

Butcher shop serving and surviving

Take over or run out by large corp

Merging to become bigger corp

Layoffs with unemployed people

Needing to eat.

I'm hungry and could eat

A burger not a Big Mac

But it is 1:47 pm and it started at noon

So I missed the showing of Mac Mic or was it, MicMacs.

Name: Suzzette Dawes

Email: suzzettethepoet@gmail.com

Film: MicMacs on 4/4/15 shown at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale

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Another example of film influencing poem:

The Mother (from the movie “On the Road”)

I saw her sitting in the next room, worried

While he packed to join his friends in Denver

And kept wondering the thoughts, her thoughts:

Denver, the land of the despicable but debonair DEAN

Where his good friend Carlo headed out before him

A place so north and west and much farther in the fifties

From the comfort of their home in New York City

And the memories of his father.

I imagined her crying, looking through the window, hopeful

That her son would come home safe.

Sal worked the fields in strange places

Slept in a camp with a makeshift bed

Missing the comfort of his mother’s cooking

His father would’ve been proud of his calloused hands

Laboring in the field each day to get enough pay

To head back home to the warmth of his mother and the New York City Apartment.

 I saw her sitting in the car, perplexed

Why does he have these people as friends?

Her fears were not confounded and I agree:

Poor Sal was left alone, in Mexico, with a fever

By Dean who must get back to his life.

The movie didn’t show how Sal got back home

But I felt proud, like his mother would,

When he resisted Dean’s lure and went instead

To the concert with his real friends.

a poem from Seventieth Avenue, Copyrighted 2015 Suzzette Dawes

 poem used as another example of poem about film as On  The Road was shown in 2013.

for more examples of poems about film go to http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/238914)