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Gloria and Trish tend to have a propensity for verse composition. I tend not. But on an occasion such as what would have been the century birthday, I feel I should add my lesser contribution.
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Things I Learned from Susan Hayward
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Adam and Eve conceived in Eden
Cain and Abel were the ones.
But Susan Hayward told me
That ‘ Adam Had Four Sons’.
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I know “ They Won’t Believe Me’ she said
But “ I’d Climb the Highest Mountain” you know.
So I went along with her
And saw the ‘Snows of Kilimanjaro’
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An Oscar for ‘I Want to Live’
Saw her as ‘The Conqueror’ of Hollywood that night
For playing the ‘Untamed’ Barbara Graham
Susan’s “ Saxon Charm” was just right.
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Her “ Marriage–Go-Round” with Jess had ended
“ Where Love Has Gone” nobody knew.
But she found it again with Eaton
“And Now Tomorrow” could begin anew.
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But the deadly hot sands of Utah
Were not safe like the sands of “ Beau Geste”
They were a desert “ Garden of Evil”
That poisoned this “ Woman Obsessed”
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The “ Stolen Hours “ of her life were taken
No “ White Witch Doctor” could find a cure.
“ Demetrius and the Gladiators” and even “Jack London” tried
Such was her magical allure.
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Thank you, Kerry, for that beautiful tribute on the occasion of Susan's 100th birthday. You were so eloquent and creative in using Susan's many screen performances to honor her in such a unique way.
Thank you to all for the kind words. Perhaps we are our own harshest critics but I still feel that the poems from Gloria and Trish ' flow better' as it were. I have always found my attempts at verse composition to be clunky and awkward at times.
But as they say in so many instances- ' it is the thought that counts' and it is not about the fact that I will never be a Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson. It is all about Susan Hayward and the remarkable effect she appears to have had on so many people from all walks of life and in many diverse countries. Sad of course that she is not ' Among the Living' for what would have been her achievement of the age ton. But her body of work will outlive all of us anyway.