Best Broadway Poems

MAGICAL BROADWAY
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The eternal buzz of city anglers
brash, angry, hornets ever selling egos.
Shrieking anxiety laced, analog, syllables, idiotically.
Hoping against hope, urchins, desperations end,
strumming ancient chords in vain efforts,
praying evermore for ordained kindness's eye.
Telltale ubiquitous blighter's energetically begging on.
How on heaven's earth can anyone 
begrudge absolution, hand out...

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The lights are slowly dimming 
The curtain's going up 
The stage-hands take their places 
The scenery's all set-up 
The Orchestra is waiting 
For the Conductor to cue them in 
The audience waits expectantly 
For the overture to begin 
The Singers wait backstage 
Sipping tea to...

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Enter a town,
Circa 1938.
Where money was scarce,
but dreams were great.

Men of color, 
and the people in their midst.
Surrounded by hate,
yet still determined to persist.

A chance at real baseball,
this game they lived and breathed.
The only way out of oppression,
to play in those ***** Leagues.

Their dreams were...

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Between 96th and 104th Street on Broadway
A mid age man holds high his bible as he shouts and struts.

From year to year he holds his route
When day is lit or turns to night
His chants I hear in words of worth
His strained voice reaches some looking...

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I like my football, you know how it goes
Who's gonna win?, nobody knows
I sit in my favorite chair
In only my underwear
And a pair of Joe Namath's pantyhose...

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two girls on Broadway
trying to make the big time. . .
first sound film to win.






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com...

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Does time matter to a sleepless city?
Waiting for the train to come…it'll be here eventually
Most likely it won't even have my stop.
Hop on hop on while others hop off.
This particular track wasnt meant for them.
Next stop Lexington and 125th street
UPTOWN. The voice crackles over the...

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To where the lies the boundary,
between love and hate.
By a Father's iniquities?
Near a Mother's mistake?

A family's bond,
through blood and pain.
Ruled by fear,
breeds a daughter's shame.

Hush little baby,
don't say a word.
Or daddy's gonna put you,
where you can never be heard.

A slumber party?
Why sure you can.
Bring that...

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Burlesque musical
a parade of top hats
flotation devices whimsical
bass notes undergirding flats...

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I do not see the poem yet I tried to post last night.
Is it too soon? The why's not clear, I feel emerging fright,
and I'm here blushing in the wings! Will curtain find its part,
an audience know love verse sings, mood synthesized by heart?

Is there...

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The heavens above me was the colors of hell, and the old Chinese man welcomed me to my afterlife, an angel beside me from heaven 

My shadow was satanic, my eyes a tragedy that has suffered, more then hell, but can't see heaven, there is...

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He’d a fetish feline without doubt
so did Tom, his sick mania flout
make phantasmagorical
a new categorical
and then Andrew did let the cat out.

Twas a bargain at just half the price
Nunn and Weber made Memory nice
blending words of a poet
with some music to show it
to find lightning...

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Misery gazed through beer-stained blur,
Despair in faded jeans;
enslaved by his habit, his outstretched claw
beseeched me donate to his cause.

A ghost begged another ride on his addiction.
His wretchedness reached out and slapped me lonely;
the squalid secrets of his torment
displayed like a ***** movie.

An apparition of journey’s...

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A theatre legend - Mr Stephen Sondheim
an icon of Broadway, ahead of his time
smart lyrics, lush music, bold rhythms and rhyme
the curtain has fallen on a writer sublime.

// Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics and/or music to West Side Story, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Company,...

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