Sit down, relax and get ready for the ultimate trip

A poem about my love of cinema.

Sit down, relax and get ready for the ultimate trip

 

 

Your eyes fill with wonder as you are transported into the world of cinema.

Images of real life force us to question our own life,

Strange planets make us want to live longer

Historic battles make us fill lucky.

 

The use of music with images makes all other art forms looks basic.

Actors make one hold back the tears or laugh until it hurts.

You fill the heat penetrate your body from the image

Of a dusty sun bleached landscape.

 

Watch the same movie again and again and then you watch it once more.

You fall in love with movie stars, you dream about

Their faces, you want to make love to them.

You then rent another movie.

 

You listen to a soundtrack of your favourite film on your mp3 player

While going to work. Life becomes a scene from

A film you watched the night before while

The workday slowly passes by in

A haze of celluloid.

                       

Jean Luc Godard crawled so Stanley Kubrick could stand

So Martin Scorsese could finally walk.

 

And to the countless other filmmakers, keep up the good

 Work so we could live countless lives.

 

Cut!

 

 

Reviews

[John Stussy]

Great job capturing the spirit of cinema with this poem! One of my high school best friends wanted to become a film director. The guy had talent but reality broke him of his dream sadly. This poem made me reflect on long nights we'd spend discussing stories for movies though. We were both musicians as well, and we'd write movies based on the scores in our heads and the images flying from the mind through the pen onto paper. We don't talk much anymore, he's living in reality and I'm still running down a dream. So this was a very much appreciated poem. I haven't been able to relive the old days like that for a good long while. There were a couple places that needed editing, just words that were used incorrectly such as "fill" where "feel" ought to be and "are" substituting "our." It made the reading just a little choppy. But those errors did not take away from the value this piece has. Thank you for presenting this poem good sir.

[Luke Ritta]

I WISH I PUT TERRENCE MALICK AND GASPAR NOE IN MY POEM...THEN IT WOULD OF BEEN PERFECT!

[roarke]

You forgot Felini, Jacque Tati, Lynch, Bergman, ... yeah, the list goes on doesn't it. Film, moving pictures has left an imprint on the twentieth century mind. Nice ode.

[Amila Jay]

Movies totally takes you into another world!!! Great write:-)

[Ruth]

Wonderful capture of this Luke, like something Jim would write! lol
I love it and you add style with the "cut"
Superb!
xoxo

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

loved this Im such a huge movie buff lol

I noticed a small typo "fills" should be fill

[idk]

I reallly like this. Great job

Perfect! You would be a good movie director, because you see through all the things that just do not perfect the bloody perfection. Great writing, love the irony, the knowledge and all that this poem gives a smile for Dutch eye from behind a laptop who is reading, actually watching as if she's in the movie. Thanks Luke, another masterpiece.

~ Elisa Laura

[Roary]

Beautiful way of looking at the movies we love and enjoy. I find it completely relate able. Keep it up and i like the fact that you ended it with a prison term.

[Robbie~xoxo~]

The ultimate trip begins on paper. From the view of the one that dreams of the emotion they want to convey. You have definitely conveyed this ultimate trip.