Happy Birthday Bette Davis
“I’ve always liked men better than women, but I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars,
would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.”
– Bette Davis
actress
From the heart…
R.I.P. Karen Black
Arthur Miller
• About Marilyn Monroe, by her ex-husband, Arthur Miller: “To have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was. Instead, she was a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes.”
Short Poems by Shirley Ballard
BONANZA — “Cutthroat Junction” Episode 26 — Pictured: (l-r) — Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank
“Ruthless Hearts”
little by little
we learn to love
to give and take
from someone dear
then time takes over
and washes the colors away
little by little
we learn to hate
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“Each Day”
each day we’re intimate with it
it caresses our hair
and face like a lover
but it’s not…
and we have to live with it
it’s called air
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“The Special Drawer”
the drawer was filled
with odd bits
parts of old theatre tickets
one stained with red wine drops
another with mini notes
time and locations and love
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“Emptiness”
life feels incomplete…
a task waiting to be done.
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“Waiting For Dark”
so I can see
how for granted
do we take eyes
for granted…
don’t take it away
don’t lose it
to the dark
86 yrs. Actress
(Miss Calif. 1944)
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“Old Folks” by Shirley Ballard
when they look at us
what do they see
besides the obvious…
maybe there’s
nothing left to see…
or they’re missing something
too much and too little
there’s old
and then there’s old
Shirley Ballard (86 yrs.)
(Actress & Miss Calif. 1944)
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© 2011
Elizabeth Taylor
“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time,
the greater our capacity for waiting.”
Rest In Peace
“Reflections” by Shirley Ballard (86 yrs.)
reflections in windows
seeing myself
as an unknown face,
surrounded by strangers…
or are they all me?
(Miss Calif. 1944)
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Actress/Poet/Friend
© 2011
“Just A Day” by Shirley Ballard
an early morning sunrise
touching the dew
on a sleeping city
making it sparkle golden…
slowly rising from the east
until its full glory
marks midday.
crossing the sky
it makes its way west
before it shares its splendor
sinking below the ocean’s greedy arms
but not without a final gift
of intense molten gold
before vanishing
in the black sea of the west
until tomorrow.
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(86yrs. Miss. CA. 1944, actress)
© 2011
“Togetherness” by Shirley Ballard (86)
when we get
too close
sometimes we get
feeling confined
smothered
unable to breathe
submissive…
not a good thing
no way Ray
so back away
freedom is cool…
most of the time!
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actress/poet/Miss Calif. 1944)
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