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Best Beckett Poems

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Bio of a Simple Man Called Me
BIO Of A Simple Man Called Me

Coming from a normal family
Perhaps not by today’s standards
I had two loving parents who stayed together 
They lived and...

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Categories: beckett, adventure, celebration, family, games,
Form: Bio



Premium Member A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
I will take flight, into another zone
how far off to wander 'tis now not known
no regret, as dear point is to be free
beyond sadness, into...

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Categories: beckett, appreciation, beauty, freedom, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
A Search, A Quest For A Lost Paradise - 
a collaboration with Susan Ashley


I will take flight, into another zone
how far off to wander 'tis...

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Categories: beckett, art, beauty, color, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Philidelphia
If one scene upon a screen could chill the spine
The rare and raw emotion soars the mind
It crawls into the skin of Andrew Beckett
Gaunt, pale,...

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Categories: beckett, heart, music,
Form: Free verse
The Beast of the Cave
When I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beckett, adventure, dark, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme



Oh What a Season
Last year I wrote of a Red Sox team
The fans did not exactly scream
They could not swing, field or hit
Last place was theirs, that was...

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Categories: beckett, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
The Red Flops
The Red Flops
 
Its baseball time in Boston Town
 Sure hope the team won t let us down
 Gonzales, Papi and Bobby V.
 Will surely...

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Categories: beckett, funny, sports, home, games,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member "castle"
My favourite type of books are mysteries,
Not romance, comedy or biographical histories.
So when Rick Castle on my t.v. first appeared
His character to me was already...

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Categories: beckett, mysteryfor her, for her,
Form: Rhyme
- Sins of the Dinother -
...To get back
get back, else
the Grand Probation
fails...

We suffer hale
'cause
We suffer, hail to 
a mobiused Morlde`
of looped
Perpetuity

The wakesleeping
of
Self'sexcesses,
moral absurdtities
redolent of seay,
Hawaii football,
Golf Clubs'
cervid cudgels,
'bout covers
the
covert bases...

Dolmened
"...for...

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© H Mantel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beckett, introspection, peace, philosophy, political,
Form: Free verse
Absurdity
Is it a new phenomenon,
Known to the world
Through Beckett and Camus?
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean.

Oedipus, Bhartrhari, Buddha—all,
Over a period of intense suffering,
Learnt to...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beckett, analogy,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member If It Takes Forever
drove wife to doctor
counting wheelchair ramp spindles
~waiting for Godot






7/10/2020

My wife smiled at this one.  Or was it a smirk?

Waiting for Godot is a play...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beckett, humor, husband, irony, satire,
Form: Senryu
Dreaming
She elegantly walked thru the corridor,  clipboard clutched to her chest,
Of all the days at uni, this certainly had to be the best.
Tall and...

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© Chris Gair  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beckett, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Shadow
The wind blowing through your 
hair, 
Hits my face from the same 
direction.
I brush the hair out of my eyes 
So I can keep them on you.
You're...

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Categories: beckett, romantictime, giggle,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Phd In Redneck
I have go not advanced degree
from a fancy eastern school.
I’ve no idea who Beckett is,
so you declare that I’m a fool.
Yet yesterday I restored to...

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Categories: beckett, america, anger, how i
Form: Rhyme
Pangs of Exile
Pangs of exile


In the season of the fallen leaf
Pangs of exile, pangs of grief
Should I join the expat web?
I will still receive The Sheaf
Pangs of...

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Categories: beckett, emotions, feelings, time,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs