Best Histrionics Poems

Sometimes extraordinary earthquakes radically rearrange the landscape
Sometimes continents collide, violently vying for the same space
Sometimes the savanna becomes a mountain range dividing two valleys

Sometimes your...

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**For Ruben O, My little Bro**

(This poem was written and a recording made for the contest sponsored by Team Poetrysoup which was deleted before it...

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I know some may
prefer the way
  of folks direct, up front

Some love panache
forthright and brash,
  outspoken as you want

Some may prefer 
the crash...

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Hallelujah, born again

chapels scheming, mankind reeling

 in holy water's baptism of wizardly elixir

  postulating an all consuming reverence,  

rejuvenated myths of deiform fears

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People come, and people go
Poets are just the same you know
But what decides to where Poets travel
Please be free to say and unravel

Is it down...

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"The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness" 

When the crime 
was committed,
the writing 
was already on the wall,

no one listened. 
It climbed insidiously
out through the cracks
like...

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What are Concepts? Maybe, how I view the World?
What does it entail for me to grasp it?

Firstly, if I am able and smart enough -...

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"Hey just give me a minute to level my locks"
               ...

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Sweet Just the Way I Like It

you're a genius she moaned
there can only be so much money in circulation
he replied halfheartedly fingering her abacus
the moon...

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Never A Lonesome Dove

I'm so tired and so weary but never a lonesome dove
I've always tried to fit in where ever I visit there of,

On...

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history’s rewritten every day ~ histrionics much more i’d say 

By
David Kavanagh...

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"Ennui Sets In”

Whenever pen is placed
Between purloined phalanges,
When my mind unfolds and tears along the seams,
I know it’s time to move my thoughts,
Through the underground;
That...

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At the distant verge of horizon
Slowly submerging is weary Sun
With reddened face
Bidding grudging adieus
To his day long drudging
Brooding over mandatory next come

I stood there staring...

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A chokeslam! 
Goodnight sweet prince

Goodnight yawning hippo ****
With rice wine coming out your ears

Boom boom sticks 
A wisecracker talking head

Histrionics at the bandstand 
Eliminated by...

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is just realty,
the only one we know,
at once, forever good and bad.
Yesterday, tomorrow don't exist
and expectation doesn't mean a thing.
You cannot find them anywhere,
and you...

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