Chick Flicks and Girls/Women Who Watch Them

 

I've written poems inspired by "chick flicks" girls may have liked watching but guys mostly dreaded watching.  First set of poems are from "The Lake House," narrated by two different perspectives:  a female working doctor (Kate) and male architect (Alex).  Kate's perspective is written in Triolet; Alex's written in Rondeau.  

Gerry writes letters to be delivered to his widowed wife Holly after his death.  His letters start coming for a full year . . . then he is gone again away and out of her life.  But by then, she has moved on and can no longer feel his absence/presence.  "A Man That Is Not Here" is written in Madrigal form.       

Lifetime was once advertised as "television for women," and I've watched some of the movies the channel aired towards women audiences.  "Inventing the Abbotts" was aired often during this promotion.  Doug Holts and Pamela Abbotts come from different families where their fathers have a history together but their families takes opposite paths.  Somehow they form a loving relationship.  "Hold a Belief," is written in a form I improvised using a,b,c,d,e rhyme scheme with b and c rhymes mostly implemented and 4 or 8 syllables.      

The Lake House

The Lake House (Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves)

Love chanced upon by fate

Triolet:  ABaAabAB

 

 

Don’t go there to meet me,

Find me here after you wait,

I had mistaken woe for love dear,

Don’t go there to meet me,

Then I had been grief-stricken to see,

Blinked at the love chanced upon by fate,

Don’t go there to meet me,

Find me here after you wait.

 

 

A stranger to you

Rondeau:  A(R),A,B,B,A; A,A,B,B,A®; A,A,B,B,A,A®

 

 

Am I still a stranger to you?

Have our letters touched you?

Or am I in this term alone,

The ones I miss feel far apart to none,

Tell me as I lay bare to you,

 

 

Show me what you want me to do,

My feelings are open to view on you,

Are you someone I could’ve never won?

After we have exchanged in varying tones,

Am I still a stranger to you?

 

 

I saw you at a party with your beau,

Then I danced with you like couples do,

And I laid a kiss while we were alone,

Only you feel farther than a close one,

Someday you will see someone who loved you,

Am I still a stranger to you?

A Man That Is Not Here

 

 

A man who has passed away,

Is a man that is not here,

And he brought me back to life to breathe,

 

 

He took me on a trip down my memory,

Faraway places we’ve been to relive,

A man who has passed away,

Is a man that is not here,

 

 

First to a sweeping view we’ve first come by,

Life changed for us from there,

Now he’s faded when at first I couldn’t breathe,

A man who has passed away,

Is a man that is not here,

And he brought me back to life to breathe.

 

Doug Holt & Pamela Abbott in Inventing The Abbotts

Hold a Belief

4a-8b-8c-8d-6b-7c;  3c-7b-6b-8c-7c-6c-6b-10a-7c-4a

a-b-c-d-b-c         c-b-b-c-c-c-b-a-c-a

 

 

Hold a belief.

Would you have faith in a mirror?

Embrace days that make out to be,

Or call me a romanticist?

Deem me as a dreamer,

Or have faith in what I see,

 

 

At first view,

You may call me a dreamer,

But I can see us there,

Not because I’d take any deal,

But because he’d have to be,

I cherish my days with,

So I picture us there,

Because I could not take any relief,

Have trust in visions I’ve seen,

Hold a belief.