Best Revue Poems
{humanity~"aida"~25....}..."Mans Search For Meaning" ~ Viktor E. Frankl
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"You have a way with words," she said
As I walked her to her car, after class....
Sitting......
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Categories:
revue, life, loss, love,
Form:
Soaked In Dew...When velvet night is soaked in dew
along bright rims of starlit thread,
prayers chime a tune in revue
away from hours of black and dread.
Along bright rims of starlit thread,
the ......
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Categories:
revue, night, peace,
Form:
Pantoum
Helpers In the Garden...My garden calls to earths creatures one and all
No matter how big, no matter how very small
Amid ferns green lace to show her humble face
With rows of flowers and dainty plots of grace......
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Categories:
revue, flower, garden,
Form:
Rhyme
The Color of Music...Baby birds cheeping in treetops high, mellow yellow,
Whippoorwills' song when even is nigh, red sunset glow,
Raucous crows in the hot noon sun, deep orange gold,
Humming bees in blazing wildflower......
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Categories:
revue, bird, color, flower, green,
Form:
Rhyme
The Chicago Haymarket Riot of 1886...
It was in eighteen eighty-six in the streets of Chicago,
where the greatest miscarriage of justice people would know
transpired in an infamous labor-police rendezvous.
Albert Parsons led eig......
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Categories:
revue, history, death, men, work,
Form:
Rhyme
City of Trees...I saw one day a city of trees
Walking down a path with me
Following hidden eyes to see
Saplings jungled up together
Like a stream of walkers too
Confused at all by windy weather
Deer pellet......
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Categories:
revue, mythology, nature, tree,
Form:
tristich
Moulin Rouge...Moulin Rouge
The greens and pinks magnetize to my eye
Like flowers abloom in a field espied,
Overwhelming creation’s invention
With beauty of grandiose dimension,
Shifting to the wind’s......
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Categories:
revue, art, dance, french, history,
Form:
Verse
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre... A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
by T. Wignesan, Chercheur au C.N.R.S.
Professor Jean LAPRESLE, the last of the......
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Categories:
revue, celebrity, endurance, french, loss,
Form:
Elegy
Blazed Spectacle...S prawled beneath a line of stars, bright
P ulsating in varnished luster
E ndless jewels gleam, to ignite
C radled breaths as skylines flicker,
T eetering on mid evening’s hue...
A nd neon f......
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Categories:
revue, beauty, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Endless Cruel Laughter...Sgt. Bedlam of heavy artillery reporting sir
Bedlam I want you to pick the runt of the litter
and turn him into an agent assassin
with the clandestine power of hypnotism
yes Generalissimo I am h......
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Categories:
revue, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Rhyme To Recall Recapture of Romance...Writing relative rhymed rhymes
Rhyming with revival rhythmically rhythm
Is not revue but reviewing my role
To resurrect as requested to revive back romance.
When rhyming my rhymes I can revolve r......
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Categories:
revue, romanceromance, love, red, romance,
Form:
Limerick
Remodeled...There was a lad named Drew
Who liked to dabble in glue.
Some got on his chin
Which stuck to his shin
Now he stars in a freak show revue.......
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Categories:
revue, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Root Beer Belly Missuer and An Ode To All Things 70's & 80's...I drink my root beer
with soggy fries
soiled buns
Hamburg runs
while watching the tube
in an unsightly nude
give me a Draft or an A&W glass
sitting in this position, it hurts my advancing Ass
......
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Categories:
revue, funny, old, old,
Form:
Family Entertainment...O'er the years my spouse and I have enjoyed Broadway Revues,
And the stars of song and dance on an occasional ocean cruise.
But none will compare to the shows we love the best of all,
Those pricel......
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Categories:
revue, familyschool, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Conquistador, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Tercets: Conquistador...Conquistador, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s tercets : Conquistador
Message to fellow soupers: I have been trying to upload, in vain, yet another translation of a
Paul Verlaine poem titled: "Ba......
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Categories:
revue, patriotic,
Form:
Romanticism