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Showing posts with label Charlie Chaplin. Show all posts
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Sunday, 4 September 2011

Silence Is Golden


Silence Is Golden
Charlie Chaplin In The Kid


In times of Old
Movies were entertainment gold,
No sound or special effects
Filmed only in a two
Dimensional aspect.

In black and white
Life was only wrong or right
No grey or in between
What you got,
Is what could be seen.

No politically correct rules
Actors could play the fool
With waifs and strays
No interfering busy bodies,
 To allay

Those old silent movies,
Still have a hold on us, that is kind of groovy.
The actors have become iconic,
The  movies minus vocals,
Subtle, yet ironic.

Actions still speak louder than words ! 



Submitted to dVerse Poets Poetics On the theme of Silent Films