No death within a dappled grove
No 'Go; and bid the soldiers shoot'
No butterfly just out of reach
No captain, climbing with his flute-
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Black And White (A Movie Poem)
No death within a dappled grove
No 'Go; and bid the soldiers shoot'
No butterfly just out of reach
No captain, climbing with his flute-
Nor swinging in the children's swings
Nor line dance led by death, in vain
Nor love found with the loss of wings
Nor child's redemptive cry in rain-
Though birds shift course in glinting sun
And love appear in loved son's face
No sorrow's end, no joy begun
Can change the bent of your eyes' grace.
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Key:
1) Rashamon
2) Hamlet
3) All Quiet on the Western Front
4) Grand Illusion
5) Ikiru
6) The Seventh Seal
7) Wings of Desire
8) Raashamon (again)
9) Wild Strawberries
10) The World of Apu