Life On Earth Is A Movie Poem by Ferdinand L Quintos

Actors all we are in a great movie
it is one we may call anthology,
the episodes we find are multiple,
they are as many as there are people.

Their locations can be just anywhere,
the times of the stories all differ,
the scripts, cues, and shooting guides are found
in great Books that are with sacredness bound.

The sun, moon, and stars provide the light,
the camera, so great, is out of sight,
earth, water, wind, fire, seasons' vagaries
serve as effects in all the sceneries.

One may ad lib, his act one may vary,
for the nonce, he needs not to be wary,
because to each actor has been given,
the will to plan what to him will happen.

They call slip we get at time of birth,
the camera starts to roll thenceforth,
any actor can don any costume,
all what and where they are they can assume.

All that was shot an actor can preview,
reenact scenes if needed in his view,
but they will not be cut and let it be,
for the great critic later on to see.

Awardees we will be, posthumously,
each by his own act is a nominee
to be meted fitting and right honor
by the good Lord, the world's Greatest Juror.