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Best Chekhov Poems

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Premium Member Glass
Don’t tell me the moon is shining;
show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

the thunderclap
   of breaking pane,
  frightening.
splintered shards...

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Categories: chekhov, angst,
Form: Free verse



Chekhov's Gun
"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired." -- Anton Chekhov


Chekhov...

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Categories: chekhov, depression,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Prescription In Poetry
"Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other"

Anton Chekhov

A...

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Categories: chekhov, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Girls With Majestic Gestures
They chew gums in compacted face,
Cheek-bones lining made-up skin;
They belong to the golden race,
Of foaming coke and shriveled gin.

They stare at you like you were...

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© Pin Dew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chekhov, character, funny, girl, hilarious,
Form: Burlesque
Antonymous : Theatre Parallels Cinema
Theatre
ancient, organic
previewing, staging, performing
Sophocles, Chekhov, Ray, Tarantino
filming, screening, releasing
modern, edited
Cinema.



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Date: 22 / 10 / 2016...

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Categories: chekhov, art, film, inspiration, tribute,
Form: Diamante



Premium Member Poetry Prize
"Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other"
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Categories: chekhov, books, inspiration, muse, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Hobbies
Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other" 
Anton...

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Categories: chekhov, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Not the Famous One a Tribute To Short Story Writer Ray Carver
I am not the famous one. But my pain was equal to his.
He became Chekhov. I became Alfie.
The meanness of the streets that spawned us...

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Categories: chekhov, allegory, angst, celebrity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bliss Vivified Exuberance
"Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other"
Anton Chekhov

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Medicine, an...

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Categories: chekhov, inspiration, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Nature In Play
The Russians have taught me
  that nothing has changed

Instead of Nazis and Fascists,
  we have terrorists to blame

Whether Turgenev or Chekhov,
  Tolstoy...

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Categories: chekhov, dark, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Voice of Reason
It isn’t the voice of Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare or Anton Chekhov riding down red square. It isn’t the voice of Adolf Hitler rumbling underground or...

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Categories: chekhov, adventure, confidence, courage, culture,
Form: Free verse
Inspired By Anton Chekhov's Swan Song
Prince in nawab's costumes
Shouted in the dark Proscenium,
-Who's there, bequeath thousand gold coins
among the poorest citizen of my domain
Did anyone find those words?
breath-Stop flare, somebody...

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Categories: chekhov, cry, emotions, fantasy, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Nature In Play
The Russians have taught me
  that nothing has changed

Instead of Nazis and Fascists,
  we have terrorists to blame

Whether Turgenev or Chekhov,
  Tolstoy...

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Categories: chekhov, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs