Best Tableaus Poems

Ballet of the Stars

Breath of the galaxy spins the night sky
Over the magic of midsummer dreams
Legends, lovers, pirouette through the night
Sculptures of fire carved with...

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Winter's Magic 1-8-24
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Winter’s Magic

Winter wizard casts cold spells with gusto
As torrents of snowstorms dance flamencos
Champagne confetti drifts in bits of snow
Clear technicolor snowflakes spin aglow
As...

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Bewitching and beguiling in nature and in art,
Every where the handicraft of God imparts
Alluring scenes for eyes to taste,
Uplifting spirits. Gifts not to be consumed...

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( I sure do "heart" america's heartland!)

                Iowa heart ...

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Grandma was German raised to value beauty,
her art found in nature the flowers and the trees. 
Grandpa, a Wentworth, from an English family
whose Great Grand...

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"The Next Dream’s Reality" 

in dreams
we find our way 
that long night 
into light of day
what remains 
in the memory
washes in and out 
like surf...

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Song of My Heart

Heart song,
Midsummer dream,
Intones sweet poetry,
Love notes resolve in harmonies -
Vespers 

Music,
Weaves themes of joy,
Transposes dawn and dusk
Tableaus of half-notes bind lost chords...

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I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves 
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels 
all the changing faces played
automatic,...

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the harp! 



I'm afraid to play  the harp! 
Vibrating its strings 
I can hear a sound that makes me shiver 
And remember anything distant...

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Tableaus’


An elderly television speaks to her
in a deaf condominium.
Her garden is a cluster of cobwebs,
it rattles and spins as stiff
as the skeletons of the sun.

Her...

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