Inserting a poem in imovie HD?

Hi my grandmother passed away recently and I am making a video with photos from her life in imovie HD. She wrote some poems that I would also like to include in the video with a black background. Is this possible?

imagine that 'chart' as any picture:
use a picture processor of your choice (Photoshop/Elements, Pixelmator, Grafickonverter, Keynote...) and 'paint' that picture with a nice font, good colors..
keep in mind, a TV is no computer screen!
don't use too small fonts.
serif/'artistic'/kalligraphy only with large fonts.
avoid high contrats/make a test, wether white on black is readable.. could 'flimmer'
pic procesors allow much more 'typography' than any title in iMovie.. e.g. a 'paper' background.. huge caitels, single characzers in a differnet color to highlight.. etc.pp.
if the poem is longer, create a 'portrait' grafic and use the Ken Burns effect to 'scroll' the poem..

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