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Best Show Must Go On Poems

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Premium Member Superstar
The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: show must go on, addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Eccedentesiast
His smile is like a white crescent,
but a murky sky is hidden inside.

Afraid to portray mourning's of his mind
nor describe sour sickness of his tongue.
Piercing...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: show must go on, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marionette Master
~Marionette Master~    

All my dreams evolve around my wooden floor
Candles and clowns the show must go on

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The Moon slowly moves its way...

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Categories: show must go on, abuse, fear, me, moon,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
(Lights dim, a single spotlight illuminates Judy Garland, center stage. She wears a faded housecoat, her eyes holding a lifetime of stories. She speaks directly...

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Categories: show must go on, addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Too Much Love Will Kill You - Queen Tribute
My heart is breaking, but the show must go on.
Too much love will kill you, if you try too hard.
Love of my life, don't leave...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: show must go on, love hurts,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member Tears From a Clown
Once again, he dresses himself
    with flour- powdered face, neck -ruffles,
    and over-sized shoes: all these for kids
 ...

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Categories: show must go on, irony, loss,
Form: Free verse
Smokescreen
Have you heard who’s coming to town? 
Why, she’s only the very best actress in around!
She can make you angry,  make you cry
She can...

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Categories: show must go on, deep, depression, sad,
Form: Lyric
The Curse of the Ventriloquist
He mimicked all who entered the darkened room, 
felt the fear in their eyes when watched with zeal.
He was a performer and his sidekick Sid...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: show must go on, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Coach
His is the whispering voice echoing within the athlete’s field of dreams,
The harkening leader, a teacher of strength and confidence, whom takes
The raw abilities given...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: show must go on, adventure, baseball, destiny, football,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beginnings Endings
Beginnings – Endings

Out of the darkest reaches of time and space
came molten minerals, gasses, rocks, comets
– life traversing aeons, in suspended animation
across millions of light...

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Categories: show must go on, history, planet, universe,
Form: Free verse
The Sharp Tooth of Truth
I stood atop of my pointed view and felt the sharp tooth of truth.
How elegantly we lived the lie,  a fictional legend always on...

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Categories: show must go on, courage, destiny, inspirational, muse,
Form: Free verse
When a Teacher Retires
The Show Must Go On....

The program has been meticulously drawn up...
Planned to the smallest detail to ensure no slip up..
The performers are primed, lined up...

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Categories: show must go on, celebration, farewell, inspirational, moving
Form: Light Verse
The World Is One Family
This heart yearns to sing this song, to show the world where I belong,

An ancient civilization on this Earth, its great wisdom brings pride
to this...

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Categories: show must go on, patriotic,
Form: Ode
Queen For a Day
Whether I need A Night at the Opera
Or desire to Bicycle away,
I can always turn to my music
and so become Queen for a day.

They sing...

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Categories: show must go on, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Witch's Birthday Bash Part 1
It was her big day, she'd waited a while
Her excitement was building, but so was her bile
She'd planned this party to the final detail
Invited all...

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© Jenni Munn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: show must go on, children, cat, hair,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things