Writers Lounge Forum Ressurection

The NEW Poetry Project

Entitled: Poetry at the Movies 1915-2015

One movie from each year will be chosen as thematic and artistic inspiration.

REGENERATION (1915) avail. On YouTube (nitrate damaged)

Regeneration (alternately called The Regeneration ) is a 1915 American silent biographical crime drama co-written and directed by Raoul Walsh. The film, which was the first full-length feature film directed by Walsh, stars Rockliffe Fellowes and Anna Q. Nilsson and was adapted for the screen by Carl Harbaugh and Walsh from the memoir My Mamie Rose, by Owen Frawley Kildare (a Bowery tough himself) and the adapted play by Kildare and Walter C. Hackett.

Regeneration

The floor of loneliness

As the wicker casket is horse-drawn away

The mouth-harp and cat

His only friends at play

The cruelty of neighbours

Forced to run in mutiny

The new home is gangland

His perilous destiny

The glory of an ice-cream cone

and vaudeville show

a notion of freedom

and the whisper of a self-reliance glow

Two solitudes

Awaiting intervention’s hand

Then comes the calm

Of a settlement house planned

Education

Inspiration

Love

As the noble pure soul

Waves her wand to impart

the potential of mind

and a God-given heart

DeaBeePea 6-22-20