Best Enacting Poems
Below are the all-time best Enacting poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of enacting poems written by PoetrySoup members
Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors,
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...
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Categories:
enacting, analogy, how i feel,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Hazy Tears BurstMidnight hangs in deepened revelation
as the cry of elegy flows within its waiting,
hazy tears burst to deny sleep’s interval
when baby - lullabies...
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Categories:
enacting, angst, death,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Cosmos, the Flower and the BeeLook as far and as wide as you can, my friend,
Turn your eyes towards the sky and try to pierce infinity-
This vast unknown-
Ponder...
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Categories:
enacting, flower, god, men, universe,
Form:
Free verse
My Final CurtainNo encore demanded, I stand alone
No applause as I hang up my ‘microphone’
But what do they care, for no empty chair
Has ever acknowledged good tone
I...
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Categories:
enacting, death, retirement,
Form:
Rhyme
Liquor of LoveGestures beckon gestures,
Speech caresses silence,
Laughter accompanies the seductive sways of smiles,
The beautiful bliss of our starry eyes gone astray;
Then caught and locked in a...
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Categories:
enacting, fantasy, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
To Never Close My Eyes AgainTo never close my eyes again
Whispers call out
silent forests
of slumbering trees
wave weary branches
on the wind
Voiceless in the...
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Categories:
enacting, good night,
Form:
Free verse
Iridescent PathSmooth like glass the ground slithers all along
The beat goes down the street singing a song
Surface delights to even the roughest
Slipping, sliding enacting the toughest
Colors...
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Categories:
enacting, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Fig LeafFlimsy fig leaf camouflage,
subterfuge reveals montage,
mind games at play everyday,
as conscience to rest we lay.
Enacting oneupmanship,
demons of mind we worship,
anchored in hypnotic trance,
enticed by dark...
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Categories:
enacting, spiritual,
Form:
Jueju
Self portraitHow may we describe the fragrance of our soul,
which dwells within this earth vessel we adorn,
as we shape shift, hoping one day to feel whole,
noticing...
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Categories:
enacting, self, spiritual,
Form:
Ottava rima
Forest MysteriesSoon the forest would reveal its dark secret
Poems are written. Music is composed. Ballets are staged.
In enacting suspense-filled plays, each creature is engaged.
Mysteries, like petals...
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Categories:
enacting, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
A Deer Hunter's PrayerI am at once pleased and saddened that I have taken your life,oh great creature
of the forest.
I am pleased because I have invested many...
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Categories:
enacting, animals, forgiveness, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form:
Lyric
Life - the HubOver the years of enacting roles varied
Daughter, sister, wife, mother flurried
No panacea, this strife
Bout of cancer, rife
And it take
Life!
I...
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Categories:
enacting, cancer, death, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Grass Is GreenerWe’re not called upon to choose anything we live through;
Neither parent nor sibling nor school nor form of sinew;
Neither colour of hair or eye or...
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Categories:
enacting, africa, hate, history, home,
Form:
Limerick
A Week To Do As I PleaseIf I had a week all to myself,
And could put life on hold, high up on the shelf;
How I would spend it, you want to...
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Categories:
enacting, lifeday, day, giving, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Me's a CrowdWho am I today?
Husband, Father, Son or Brother
A noble thought that gives itself away,
Or some distant, self-obsessed Other?
What shape I don tomorrow
Who can say
If I...
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Categories:
enacting, angst, confusion, introspection, lifemay,
Form:
Rhyme