Poetry Mash-Up by RoseM

L. Frank Baum’s Dorothy and Toto meet a traveler from an antique land who tells them of two vast and trunkless legs of stone in the desert that are more ruined than a rusted out tin man.

Thomas Stearns Eliot may have fallen on hard times if he is writing the script for a 2009 Will Ferrell film that reboots a 1974-77 TV Series in which humans and dinosaurs shared the screen.

Alexander Pope teams up with Guy Ritchie to write the story of four cockney card players who end up in trouble for giving a bad haircut to Belinda, the girlfriend of a boss who runs a crooked card game.

Three parts: Robert Browning’s ominous and threatening speaker now warns new mom and wife of Prince Willam about the perils of life in Belgrade during World War II.

Three parts: A.E. Housman’s poem in seven quatrains celebrates the life of the British born rap artist Marvin Young who could bust a move while posting a time in the 100 meters that you can’t touch.

Three parts: Robert Herrick advises Jim Croce listeners to gather their rosebuds with alacrity to avoid a temporary phenomenon that can spoil the taste of some young wines.

Three Parts: A John Donne poem about the Christian triumph of eternal life is sung by a teary-eyed Tina Turner who washes the feet of Jesus with her hair.

Three parts: Thomas Gray’s warning that “full many a flower is born to blush unseen” is heeded by guitarists Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page who write music for a DC Comics band of female superheroes whose collective name suggests they might be raptors.

Four Parts: An F. Scott Fitzgerald novel teams up with poet John Milton to explain the ways of God to man by recasting Josef Mengele as Beelzebub in cautionary tale starring Gregory Peck about the cloning of Adolf Hitler as part of an experiment to create the ideal Aryan versions of Tootles, Nibs, Slightly, Curly and the Twins.

Four parts: John Keats’ 1819 poem in Spenserian stanzas set on a particular day in winter transforms into an medical drama authored by Anne Bronte that features Sandra Oh clad all in black conducting a public autopsy that is famously painted by a young Rembrandt.

Five parts: Giovanni Boccaccio casts Opie in place of Anthony Hopkins in a Merchant-Ivory adaptation of an E.M. Forester novel that takes a suddenly dark turn as Orson Scott Card revises the story to one that has him playing a game in which he kills the inhabitants of Westeros.

Six parts: A 1913 poem by Vachel Lindsay about the afterlife of the founder of the Salvation Army is sung by a young Belinda Carlisle who was inspired by a 1988 Jeff Goldblum/Geena Davis comedy about alien visitors to Earth who get involved in a drug deal with the motorcycle riding duo of Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper while listening to a Jim Morrison song about a Discovery channel show that features extreme weather enthusiasts.