Film Legend
Once I was unstoppable, but now my moves are tentative.
My tones once sweet and wheedling have now turned argumentative.
My salad days gone limp, “cute as a penny” turned to brass,
people take as vitriol what once they saw as sass.
My image has been shattered. When I look in the mirror,
I prefer to view me far away instead of standing nearer.
I once was an ingenue with all the roles I wanted.
I faced the cameras brazenly, unfiltered and undaunted.
But now I find the only lenses on my face
are trifocals. The cameras? Gone without a trace.
Prompt words today are brass, tentative, unstoppable, benefit and shattered. Photos from Unsplash and other free sites.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Just like Marion Davies – sort of.
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Yes..How is she doing? Perhaps you need to send it to a film production company? Sometimes if the movie does well, they publish the book afterwards. Wouldn’t hurt.
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Not all of them; some turn into grand old ladies of stage and film.
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Right. This was a fictional one who didn’t.
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Well, some of them did, and some didn’t, of course.
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The ups and downs of life of a celebrity. Great poem.
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A metaphor for almost any life
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True.
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