Films Poem by Carl Sandburg

Films



I HAVE kept all, not one is thrown away, not one given to the ragman, not one thrust in a corner with a 'P-f-f.'
The red ones and the blue, the long ones in stripes, and each of the little black and white checkered ones.
Keep them: I tell my heart: keep them another year, another ten years: they will be wanted again.
They came once, they came easy, they came like a first white flurry of snow in late October,
Like any sudden, presumptuous, beautiful thing, and they were cheap at the price, cheap like snow.
Here a red one and there a long one in yellow stripes,
O there shall be no ragman have these yet a year, yet ten years.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Michael Walker 06 November 2019

A good idea to keep his old films: once given away, he will never see them again. I am like that with videos that I like. Fine color contrasts: blue, red, yellow.

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