Cinematic Fans



Ice watered glasses
Sweating rings on raffia discs
Send me back to
Casablanca fans and fezes
Greenstreet,black and white:
Expansive,swatting flies.
Or McMurray's hunt for jewels.
Now and then Apocolyptic beating
Shadows, circling memories
Send me back in time to Nam.
Never feathered fan on Nile
Nor bamboo masking eyes
It's Casablanca fans
That flicker in my mind
It's Rick and Ilse
Ever never
Singing.
You must remember this.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCADEFGHIJEKLMNGO
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 410
Words 71
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18

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