Tim Tipton's Rhyme Without Reason

How do poems come to you

Louise Beavers

Rita Hayworth reading

Errol Flynn 

be let alone! There is all the difference. 

Bert Lahr Wizard of Oz make-up test 1938 

Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw 

Ingrid Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock

Camel billboard in Times Square, with real smoke coming out of the man’s mouth, 1949.

Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding at American Airlines office, 1955 

Lucille Ball

A tree house, a free house, A secret you and me house, A high up in the leafy branches Cozy as can be house. A street house, a neat house, Be sure to wipe your feet house Is not my kind of house at all- Let's go live in a tree house. ― Shel Silverstein

Rick Lupert is a Los Angeles poet since 1990.  His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The Los Angeles Times, Rattle, Chiron Review, American Mustard, Radius Lit, Red Fez Review among others.  He lives in Van Nuys, California.

Self Help Guide