Best Pantomime Poems

mute ‘triloquist
and talking mime
went on a date
for the first time

he threw her voice
under the bus
you should have watched
the way she cussed

she shut him down
with signs that hurt
when slipped his hand
beneath her shirt

but then he gave
her new white gloves
and pantomimed
undying love

now she’s his doll
he needs no...

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Some people say that
 life is just a pantomime
 oh no it isn't...

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My wife and I had words but I never got to use mine
Her verbal diarrhea supersedes mine every time
An incessant stream
I wanted to scream
It was like starring in my own pantomime...

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A long running pantomime was coming to an end of its successful showing. Once more one of the radio DJs asked if anyone had appeared in a pantomime. Then she asked if anyone wanted to appear in one, and if they did, what character would...

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Check into the Hotel Pantomime
Hospitality cloaked; words a crime
Dressed with gestures, emotions to prime
Tap your bellhop, then gleefully toss him a dime
Forthwith, the receptionist summon with a curt bell chime
After checking in, dance through the lobby in double-time
Flag down the elevator operator with a nod...

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How lowly do the heavens hang?
This great Earth begins at your feet.
The sound of church bells that just rang.
Falling in love when eyes first meet!

The pantomime of that one love.
A born aspect of your being.
Like the mating dance of the dove.
You're the mirror that love's...

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long, to aspire
love drops from the sun
to live
or come undone

aimless ways of the sea
us butterflies,
effortlessly in the breeze
floating through days
and hidden in restless nights

attuned to the way
handwritten notes
a swallowed shrill, to dear
washed away from the fear

and we linger in the moments
as they pass
wandering the sounds...

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The performance expresses meaning through gesture,
gentle stories and tales without words to venture.
White washed face and biggish eyes,
timing and theatrical endurance wise.
Pointing towards the human sensitive struggle,
how to keep the soul, mind and heart to juggle.
Like the fool of tarot card and number zero,
through owns...

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Once again I ask myself to suffer,
sifting through so many words,
there's so much I want to say.
Perhaps afraid to stand before you,
naked to your judgment,
exposing every nerve and every weakness
in a pantomime.

I wouldn't know what to do
with my strength anyway.

The deafening silence is broken
by the...

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fall
colored
tapestry

trees undress
one leaf at a time
east winds disperse the stress

dancing moves of a pantomime
seductively I must confess
stirs my muse already drawn to rhyme

while in the fall colored tapestry
a pageantry the trees undress
one leaf at a time



AP:  3rd place 2020

Submitted on November 5, 2018 for...

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summer pantomime
every lifeform in its place
~ the curtain rising



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on May 31, 2020...

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Just Before Curtain Up

Oh Yes! My career!.. It's behind me.
And the bright lights I’d worked so hard for
Now they’ve airbrushed my face
That looks so out of place
On that poster they’ve stuck to my door.

My name is no longer top billing
It’s been pushed further down out...

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oh
Sal saw sea
beyond the seesaw

but
did her fish suit swimming
in a flashy swimsuit

Doug, her dog 
at the pantomime
groans a panting moan

then 
Sal, fish and Doug
did a selfie on her phone




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