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 airy light beams

Dances l’etoile sparkle winter rondeaus
Gossamer nebulas leave stardust veils
Ensembles of stars in stellar tableaus
Costumed in lightness made of...

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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 winter winds enchanted spells now sow
Bright snowfall’s glitter – solstice nights light show
Meadows and boughs bewitched by snowy ghosts
Wear sparkling...

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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, embedded in misty consort 
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats 
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting the present poésie 
Rimbaud’s Lettres du Voyant appear
of painful yesterday’s...

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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 in haste;
They must be savored, full and slow,
Imbibed into the eye and mind, tableaus
Filled with soul food, rich and sweet,
Ubiquitous...

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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 on soft sand
the cool drag under our feet
pulls us out then back in again
we are floating ghosts of ourselves
like watercolours...

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

                Iowa heart  land
spring's Redbreast, summer corn rows
            fall harvest,  ...

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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 sailed the Mayflower, across the sea.

In the time of William Morris, when craft was art,
Great Granddad was a shipwright that's...

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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 -
In tune

Verses 
Winsome lyrics
Tempos sing in duets,
My song breathes in stanzas of sighs
On key

Refrains,
Heart arias,
Beat with mercy’s cadence
Laughter chants a...

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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 
Mixture of nightmare and dream sweet. 
I'm afraid to remember forgotten ways 
the sound of an instrument that does not...

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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 ears listen to the world
as it ascends into a fairy tale.
The dragons are back,
the good knights and the bad,
she recalls...

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