Best Upstaged Poems
A Stark Naked Pause
...
concerned about being upstaged
the glorious blue tinted rock
negotiated
sent in the puffy white wisps
to cover the vibrant coloured evergreens
the brown field in the foreground
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Categories:
upstaged, beauty, earth, nature, planet,
Form:
Light Verse
Muse Blues
...I got the Muse Blues
Where did my muse go
I got the muse blues
Tell me where did my muse go
Maybe down 'n Louisiana
Hangin' out with my friend Flo
I got the Muse Blues
My heart in a rage
I got the m......
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Categories:
upstaged, blue, friend, fun, missing
Form:
Lyric
Shadow Puppets
...Behind the parchment screen and eye to eye Punch chided.
Who are you? Who is she? He’d point it out. You’d see.
No marionette with strings was he. Their paths collided;
Judy stands and faces his a......
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Categories:
upstaged, humor,
Form:
Sonnet
Red-Dress-Fabulous Goodbye
...
Oh no! What are YOU doing here?
I haven’t seen you in a year!
But I’m sure it’s perfectly clear,
I’m still red-dress fabulous, Dear!
You thought you could steal my spotlight......
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Categories:
upstaged, goodbye, humor, moving on,
Form:
Rhyme
Seeking the Divine
...impermanence of youth upstaged every time by purity of heart
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~SUNLIT RIPPLES~ 2019
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Submitted on November 13, 2019 for c......
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Categories:
upstaged, age, beauty, god, heart,
Form:
Monoku
Gable's Eternal Love
...GABLE’S ETERNAL LOVE
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a...
After all, my true love fell with wings!
No twig nor heifer could compare…
This screwball comic welcomed dawn,
dauntless i......
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Categories:
upstaged, death, love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Love In the Time of Covid
...Although other news Covid’s somehow upstaged,
My friend called to tell me her son got engaged.
It felt like a beacon of light in a storm
For news that is good is no longer the norm.
The newly b......
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Categories:
upstaged, love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Threat To the Hockey Team
...Each child has talents and Dee always loved to skate
One night at the lake she was called up to the plate
The high school hockey team was “slip-sliding away”*
So call her a chauvinist; Dee want......
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Categories:
upstaged, funny, high school, sports,
Form:
Couplet
Christian Evangelical-Charismatic Republicans
...I grew up with rural Michigan white red-neck evangelical root systems.
These did not always feed my multicultural self/other liberation of the GLBTQ subclimatic root system
for regeneratively healt......
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Categories:
upstaged, beauty, christian, gender, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Her Nibs
...Day in, and day out, from the ripe old age of five
I’ve take to sharp objects and whittled at their sides.
Plotting the precise angle with penetrating gaze,
the slant of slice, just so nice, as ......
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Categories:
upstaged, funny, language, metaphor,
Form:
Couplet
Everyday
...Every day I try harder, to be more and more like you.
To brighten up everyone’s day, like you always seem to do.
You smile and you joke, I laugh and I listen but nothing is ever quite right,
when ......
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Categories:
upstaged, absence, analogy, anger, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
I Was a Warrior
...glorious and tall i stood...
you could lie and say i was king
and still tell the truth
i defeated Attila the Hun
and outwitted Alexander the great
upstaged Julius Caesar.
i crawled through the dunes ......
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Categories:
upstaged, adventure, dedication, passion, peace,
Form:
Free verse
My Dad--The Horse Whisperer
...~
A Timeless Connection
Where can we find two better hemispheres
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not......
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Categories:
upstaged, animal, dad, horse, love,
Form:
Free verse
Dragons Penguins
...Dragon really shouldn’t have borrowed the penguins, away from the Zoo.
Now he was their baby sitter at the lake, from morning till night, so true.
Not to mention a catasaurus was now stalking, his ......
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Categories:
upstaged, adventure, angst, fantasy, fun,
Form:
Light Verse
Black Sheep Drawback
...‘BLACK SHEEP DRAWBACK’
Discouraged, anxious and unsure—pitch black tarmacs start their war
Petrified, panicked and distressed—uncertainty cracks amidst unwelcomed guests
Dissociated and desensit......
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Categories:
upstaged, fear,
Form:
Rhyme