Best Enactment Poems

 POTD 23rd June 2019

Maria Williams 
Presents

Dance to Love

A tribute to my Dad, the late - Wilfred Forbes

She danced with wild abandon
she danced without a...

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Watching old newsreels sadness washes over me 

Highstepping horses, gentle eyes transformed in fear 
valiantly charging under men that could not yield

Amid the noise of...

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For years I was a trained gymnast, and I'd competed in the Olympics,
Before my leg was injured in a car accident, among fate's cruel tricks.

I...

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I congratulate
the icicles on their serenity.
They have courage and backbone;
their hard hearts will never give way.

Mid-morning I hear drops of water steadily falling. 
I look...

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Justice delayed from fringed time frazzled cry
Until the DREAM can heal itself and broken trust
******* shackled minds in the velvet shadows try
Evolving with a nation...

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No more this verdant sight no more the sound
No more the heart of mist at nature’s dawn
No more victims of constant pressure found
No more the...

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Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes...

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Deepening Dusk
                by Odin Roark

How might this relentless approach of...

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THE EAGLE

From sheer Jurassic precipice he soared
Surveyed the land for gifts it might afford

Across the broad flat valley’s rich domain
With viewpoint high, low altitude disdain

In...

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My harmony is the preserver of my banality, which, when shaken and stirred by the disturbers, pump up the mouth by Words, occasionally jargons. But...

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THE KINTA VALLEY
OR : Dreams of the Sleeping Man
        (Anthropomorphic name of a mountain profile viewed from The...

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black reality…
maimed and killed on video:
daily news tv.

injustice must go---
what’s seen is no enactment;
it’s real as was meant.

all of this crap stop.
our lives are in...

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The Colosseum is a Roman work
Capable of seating thousands or more
Used for gladiatorial contests, mock battles

Such action seen in its famous battles
Or re-enactment of a...

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Every man, woman and child long for no more strife
Behold the mind visions of a much better life

Reality desired manifests through thought
Post-passing the wisdom each...

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I see her as the woman on the road,
and in the distance just inside her sight,
one solitary male approaching—that alone,
draws up within her, latent fire
and...

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