Before The Dawn
...Before the Dawn
Where were you in the 14th century?
In ancient times, it was called philosophy.
Their entertainment was the Amphitheatre back in time.
Captive in chains as warriors, who could...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, history,
Form: Rhyme
Within The Orchestra Of A Bleeding Heart
...I hear violins playing
Oscillating in the auditorium
As the orchestra resounds
Behind the chambers of my heart
Bittersweet melodies plays aloud
I cannot escape -
That sweet summer rain
Which...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, devotion, emotions, gothic, grief,
Form: Lyric
The Invitation
...
(A seductive voice whispers as incense fills the air)
Sat within here
A discarded loop in time and space
Within this room
I see you all in the distance
Shimmering through
Like brig...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
SIT-UPONS
...Sit-upons that we wove together.
The troop activity. How many spots
will remember me?
The wicker basket and picnic blanket
woven into the amphitheatre. We,
my hubby and I,
cozied up, listened...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, places,
Form: Free verse
Freethinker
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In the still of the night,
spectro-gramming the hot utter of air,
filtered by laser strainer-
it has become a scale for judgment scaled by tier
a black hole of sin in my pocket,
a p...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, art,
Form: Rhyme
Superstar
...The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will show their love by means of applause and whistles. When I am o...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
Ancient Roman Collosseum
...Flavian Amphitheatre
the ultimate Roman colosseum
built by Vespasian
Dedicated in 80 ce
She seated fifty thousand spectators
calling for the blood of gladiators
possibly watching Christians g...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Demiurge
...Nothing happens in the place of forever, just
The vagaries of the universe with no orderly manners.
Let me pause - and I will exist no longer, as much as
Insanity does without the tools of tormen...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, meaningful,
Form: Imagism
Mind Scape
...Mind Scape
Images stir within the mind
Apparitions surreal
Subconscious amphitheatre
Abyssal concealed
Transcending revelations
Quantum evaluations
Subliminal relations
External impl...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, deep, imagery,
Form: Free verse
A Beach In Summer
...Who loves those days when the sun is hazed
and the seas unruffled with its mirrored glaze
showing every ripple and fish that moves
in the currents stream swept surface ooze.
And the tide on ...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, beach, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Little Jordan
...A sudden feeling propelled me to go down to Ellanor C. Lawrence Park
and walk on top of the old colonial Spring house wall
I have been to that place before and walked back and forth on the wall ...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, angel, autumn, blessing, business,
Form: Narrative
To Sleep
...'O dreamy night
with wandering eyes
you could not lie to me;
deceive the drifts of snow
with crystal glitter...
Like tender downs in a midnite hour
Not a stirring soul but I in thy a...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, cool, dream, winter,
Form: Light Verse
This Parade Called Life
...I live amazed in an amphitheatre,
A huge red and white domed tent.
Working with actors and jesters,
Enduring a perpetual torment.
The crazies I know are the clowns,
Red nose and a big head o...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, humorous, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Park
...My park to me was not see-saws nor swings
instead, a treasure chest of stranger things.
A marble grave, 1891, well kept
where 'Tiny', estate owner's dog now slept.
The long gone Manor House front...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Portree
...Portree
Portree the tiny Capital of Skye
A special place for you and me
We purchased our rings
That would join us together
But no idea had I
Of your intentions that day
As we walked
Admirin...
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Categories:
amphitheatre, love, together, true love,
Form: Free verse
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