Best Tableau Poems

My Saddest Day(A Dog Gone Tableau) 

I Had to leave him
(though he yapped and whined)
at the adoption drop off,
(I still loved him so)
with folks that I'd entrusted
(he was my dear friend)
with his safe keeping.
(He'd turned old and blind)

His mournful howl followed me
(when we let him go.)
as...

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“You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed.” 
from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince 

Though he yapped and whined,
I still loved him so.
He was my dear friend.
He'd turned old and blind
when we let him go.
How can my heart mend?

Written 10/15/14 by Andrea Dietrich
For the...

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The sun is dripping
Blood into the sea.
The sky runs crimson
Heavy is the heart
The wound fresh and deep
Tears fall at sunset.


“One day I saw the sun set forty-four times! … You know, when you're
 feeling very sad, sunsets are wonderful.” @ Antoine de Saint.

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Author: Paul Callus...

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I wake to the smell 
of homebrewed coffee
and fresh toasted bread.
Then, her missing scent
suddenly strikes home…
The recurring dream.

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A Tableau Poetry Contest
Hosted by Joseph May
     Placed...

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Soft tangerine sky;
Prelude to twilight~
Sunset’s passing grace
Of her gentle gaze,
Like the final glance
Of a brief romance.



20 March 2021


Notes: Photo taken by yours truly during a winter sunset at Samnak Park, Busan, South Korea

For "Tableau - 6 Lines Poetry Contest"
Sponsored by Joseph May
1st Place

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Pondering the phrase, 
                     “Written in the stars”- 
                ...

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I’ll meet you halfway 
      set fire to both ends 
        Kiss you in stasis 
      as our world upends
       God it...

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Tiger Tableau

Six shots rang out loud
Woke the jungle calm
My trained tiger hit
Landed on me hard
Good thing I am fat
We both could have died


10/16/14  Earl Schumacker -  DESIGN YOUR TABLEAU – Poetry Contest
“You become responsible forever for what you've tamed.”...

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Soft silken petals
Tenderly unfold
Divulging little;
Yet, blazing red blush,
Beauty to behold,
Exudes scent of love.

March 19, 2021
Placed 1st: Tableau - 6 lines poetry contest
Five syllables per line
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Watching sunsets flare
Hypnotized we stare.
Horizons last light
Burning orange bright.
Heaven and earth one,
As our day is done.

Used Quote from the Little Prince 
“One day I saw the sun set forty-four times!’ ‘You know, when you’re feeling very sad, sunsets are wonderful.

Written by Brenda Meier-Hans 
10.15.2014
Nette Onclauds...

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A break in the clouds,
sun beams on rain drops.
Brilliant colors
lift winter spirits.
And we remember
the rainbow's promise…


"Happiness doesn't lie in the objects we gather around us.
To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes"

Barbara 
Gorelick
10/17/14
Design Your Tableau contest......

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Funeral today
Teardrops flow freely
I gaze at the sky
Sun sets on your life
Glorious gold glow
Soothes my breaking heart

Jan Allison
16th October 2014
Contest: Design Your Tableau
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud

3. One day I saw the sun set forty-four times!' … 'You know, when you're feeling very sad, sunsets are wonderful
~awarded...

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blue and silver clouds
behind a rainbow
where marmalade spreads
over yellow sun
as blue-green laps sand -
welcoming twilight

March 19, 2021
for Joseph May's Tableau - 6 Lines Poetry Contest...

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Lifted by soft wings
My tame little one
Released from loose strings
With praise freedom won
Opened hand run way
Fly fast to the sun


Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Contest: Design Your Tableau
Written by:Sara Kendrick
Date: October 16, 2014
Quote from Antonine De Saint Exupry
1. "You become responsible forever for what you have tamed".....

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Night subdues color 
till Dawn's light pierces 
its indistinct heart
and it bleeds scarlet
onto crimson smeared
alabaster clouds.


(Tableau)


3/18/2021


Tableau - 6 Lines Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May...

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