Best Stage Poems

Upon autumn's stage where vermillion vistas and cobalt-blue sky meet
Picturesque hues enchant, oscillating in breeze, as scarlet landscapes greet.

Falling leaves trickle down on golden yellow fabric in shades of amber fire
As barren trees fight gusty winds to hold on to remnants of brown attire.

Chilled air...

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We are all strippers on a stage
choreographed of broken dreams.
Our materialistic schemes
drown values in whiskey bottles.


We are all strippers on a stage
who put down our pillow case veils,
dawned a garter belt, sold our souls
for the price of our panty hose.

We are all strippers on a...

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Center Stage

It's hard to know exactly where to start. 
It's even harder not to think too hard or tear yourself apart. 
Life's not supposed to be easy, but it's not supposed to be living, waking hell. 
It's supposed to get better but the path is...

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Silver shines back one picture of a goddess reflection 
centre stage before the eyes enters soul to soul realm 
standing purely hot blue flames ignite every gasp 
breathing on a bed of roses sleeps beauty 

The breath stops breathless apex splendour 
within you precious jewels...

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I sat in awe and watched them
make the stage a world,
where everything,
everything
could happen.
The music took me away from 
where I was sitting.
Drifting me on invisible lines.
And I dreamt.
I dreamt.
Their hair in braids,
their colourful clothes,
their graciousness.
A jump a deer, or swan.
Arms a house to live in.
Embracing...

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Restless nights and guarded days;
means once more, his heart has strayed.
Though he vowed to mend his ways,
past sins await penance paid.

Years of lies shadow the past;
cast by promises pending.
And when good times fail to last,
you realize they're ending.

Months quickly morph into years,
pressures build, and nerves...

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Slaying all bible verse
He danced his words to heights
He was
The one

He never grew
The child always fresh
He had no lovers
Only fans

Death came inside a tear
Loneliness incubated fears
Dancing on the moon
Alone...

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The dervish whirls—
deserts fable
over candles,
atop mantle fires,
wings for life.

Salient, a moth
labors over no lands,
exists in The Great,
extends her wings 
to The Wide,
middle-age night

to flutter near the floor,
flit in the rafters—
a lamp,
her vessel for ballet
on night’s broken stage.


© 2017 | June 13 | Wesley T Cutlip
Edited...

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Lying still on the class room floor,
brown paper for a bottom sheet.
All the children were gathered round
and my outline was complete.

A cookie cutter girl was I
in bright black paten leather shoes;
with a gathered skirt, puffy blouse
of blue polka dotty hues.

Drawn silhouette, a paper doll,
not ashen...

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The stage of life is crowded,
With a dark and sullen cast.
And though it seems those fading dreams,
Are just figments of the past.

Your manner is straight forward,
You're neither actor or a clown.
You fight the fight with all your might,
But still they put you down.

With clenched teeth...

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What we are,
Who we are,
Why this Unveiled Truth?

We borrow the body's skin.
Loving and admiring,
All the hearts around us.
Instead of taking
And shaping it 
Into our own.

Let them be happy.
Let them love you 
From their distance.
Know the emanating 
Glow will reach you
When you yourself
Are ready to begin
The...

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My patience is being lost,
For the show of a leading star,
Lights fade away as a sign to
commence
The backstage roar, with
blinking lights
Resembles that the hero is on
his way to the stage,
Now the villain runs away far
from the sight behind the
clouds..
When gorgeous and colorful
girls around wait for...

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Her innocence was gone
Maturity was her mystique 
And she wore it like makeup as in clinique

She smiled and looked through deep eyes
Seeing through the disguise
She was wise

Serious was her demeanor
Compared to a pleasant dream of the dreamer
She sought pure thoughts and a heart that was...

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People may frighten us by making shouts.
Often, they threaten us throwing big bouts.
Remain composed.
Don't get exposed.
Patience and silence are the best knockouts!



A deaf ass meets a dumb tiger, one day.
The tiger pretends to growl at his prey.
It believes that the ass hears.
The ass fakes as...

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She came to me in the noon day sun..
her world wistful, longing for an unsung quiet.

But I would not remain still, nor silent,  
though her hours in life, never meant for long.

Desperately I grasped her up in loving embrace.. 
And in her arms cried,...

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