Actor Poems

BIO MODIFIED – CONCEITED IMPOSTER

Conceited
A poet a playwright, an actor and dreamer.
I love my reflection, a challenge, applause.
I’ve thought of a screenplay, a sit-com and novel.
I feel I am perfect, a genius, appealing.
I fear I’ll be wrong on all three...Read More

Molested

A poet, a dramatist, an actor and a pessimist;
Researching, developing and adapting,
TV screens, stage productions and filming

While the scars of the past still remain,
the wounds haven’t closed since 1964,
when I was merely eight years old. 

In a large part, because...Read More

The day I met an actor
Father Brown sat in my garden drinking beer
with fellow actors and producers.
Father Brown remembered me he had seen
Me watching him every weekday on Tv.
The actor profession is strictly hierarchical 
I could not sit at his...Read More

Kenny had a God given talent and he was bound to succeed.
His death has pricked people like a thorn and they will bleed.
He was both a singer and an actor who had skill.
People loved to hear him sing The Gambler...Read More

Summer Haze
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in) my mind, and I can't say
if what we had was...Read More

Does anyone care?

I cared to reach the highest peak
to reach the height of my degree
not caring where the future lay
now I will find of what I seek
a poem I know will cherish me
to lead me to the promised way

an actor...Read More

There was a wife of a tightrope walker
oil his tightwire to surprise the actor.
When arose holding long pole 
crowd roared, he slipped into roll
no net; with an ugly scowl turned to her.


3/3/2020...Read More

 
We all have our time machines.
Some take us back, they're called memories.
Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Jeremy Irons, English Actor
_______________________

              Oh I recall,
  ...Read More

(1.)
A Poet's Heart Speaking On One Current Politician's Game

From the abyss wearing robes of silver and white
shots fired hit and miss underneath sly pale moonlight
shadow-man, dancer in his own one man parade
illustrious actor of scenes very well played
self-appointed guard of...Read More

The actor

Tom Chance was an outstanding actor and friend
I saw him play a professor dying of cancer
The death scene was especially moving.
Tom had cancer too that killed him a few months later
I admired how he was able to separate
The role...Read More

Lights! Camera! Action!
Cue “My Sister Sam”
At first sight there was attraction
Fanboy’s heart was smitten—BAM!

As he watched her on TV
His infatuation grew
So he wrote her lots of fan mail
Her one response stirred obsession's brew

For a time all was serene
What came next...Read More

Glory-Be on a bun, and a tube of lifesavers,
What have they done to Barbara Havers?
Where is good old sloppy Barb,
Dressed in some outlandish garb?
Where's the slogan on a T-shirt,
Something like "Bare Bums Alert",
A bit of execrable Havers taste,
Boldly displayed above...Read More

Something about this nature calls to me
To set me free
Of this heartbreak I forsee

Inside, something stirrs
Though my destiny still blurs
But what do I prefer?

Should I care for a young one?
Or is that too much to be done?
Though, it seems like...Read More

   what   Brilliant actor
   unbeatable  in art of
   stealing  audiences .......Read More

The world lost a talented actor one year ago today.
After being on Earth for almost 83 years, he passed away.
He starred in 'Keeping Up Appearances' and 'The Old Guys'.
People also loved his performances in '1990' and 'Pack of Lies'.
He also...Read More

I’m on the synthetic stage, 
revolving my split mind, 
entrapped in polarity,
under the spotlight of contrived time,
with paradoxes I’m enmeshed.

In the drama of life,
I face some faces in plain mirror,
really reflecting the convivial heart.
I don’t perform by the prompt,
but I...Read More

POTD 29 Jan 2020

A balmy fragrance of cedar and lime lingers
A will o wisp floats by gathering dew
A mark on the page of another man’s book
A brightly coloured crayon of an unknown hue

A footprint in golden sands sinking deep
A delicate...Read More

I dream of giving an Elvis concert,
To learn his popular songs.

Stand on the stage and sing,
"Wise man say" or "Are you lonesome tonight".

These are my favorite songs,
The day I sang to the dinning-hall friends.

There are many more good songs,
That I...Read More

We are ecological science
and con-science
and unconsciousness.

We are story
and egological storyteller
and unknown
unheard
unseen.

Earth's humane act
and actor
and theologically transcendent stasis.

The dance
and dancer
and deaf
and frozen

The song
and singer
and silent
muted
anticipation
and anxiety.

The play
and player
and absent
uninvited
worker.

The thought
and thinker
and feeler
and numb.

The garden
and gardener
and consumer
and starving.

The Earth
and EarthTribe
and Ego
and Interdependent
DNA...Read More

I studied to be an actor

And after graduating

Auditioned for everything

Yet couldn't even land a bit part

But as of yesterday

I am officially the back end

Of Donkey ass in a local production

Of Shrek doth Shakespeare

I guess this what they mean
when they say...Read More

 A Catholic "priest" 
          plays his role 
              too well, publicly; 
     ...Read More

In memory, I stand outside
My parents’ bedroom door
To peek at their TV to see
An actor I adore.

It’s Kookie (Edd Byrnes in real life)
On “Sunset Strip” at night,
Way past my bedtime, which is why
I stood there, out of sight.

He died this...Read More

my mind's like
Dorothy's house
as i'm looking 
out the window

the world 
is whirling
and i caught
in its tornado

can do
nothing
much then
watch the

movie but
i do question
am i a player on
stage or an actor

in
this
scene

action and     cut...Read More

       


         romance film of life,
       even being  lead actor,
         lost...Read More

If you look at ol’ Bram Stoker,
Irish writer of Dracula fame,
it can be quite hard to believe
that any remember his name.
At first just a civil servant,
then he managed a London stage,
doing books for Henry Irving,
a great actor of the age.
Then...Read More