Best Waiting In The Wings Poems

Sunlight weaves between the
bones of skeletal trees.
And a web of shadows
dance with each feisty breeze.

A silver sky shimmers
like cheap carnival glass.
Yet, the fickle sunlight's
too weak to free the grass.

As snow accumulates,
bare branches almost break.
Bowing low to the ground;
with the weight of each flake.

Sugar Maple sap...

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The colors she wore clashed in confusion.
One sock grey, one sock blue
as her mind wandered ... where?
She never knew her name 
called out of the fog.

The blouse buttoned wrong
with sleeves too long
and she didn't belong ... anywhere.
When the fog settled in,
she stared out, turned around
full...

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They watch, they wait
to see my fate.
never adding nor subtracting
hauntingly and numb.
They wait in the wings
of indifference 
to announce my outcome....

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My life has been a stage
On which I've played the roles
Of friend and lover to the ones
Who came along and touched my soul.
The play is almost over now,
And yet, my heart still sings
When I turn around and see you
Waiting in the wings.

It's no small part...

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We stand here waiting in the wings, 
Our time to be on stage getting nearer.
There are still a few of you who remember last time we made it on stage,
Quite a drama it was though we never made it past the first act.

We weren't as...

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Your voice is trembling, 
I hear above the rafters. 
The silence that haunted yesterday, 
Is new pestilence, 
Birthing the lies that creep up behind you, 
When you tell yourself, "It's alright". 
The valleys and the gorges that you've intended, 
Are lattice-shaped hatred with a blade....

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...
    “And, by the way, it used to make the beer 
brewed here  — it is used to make the brewed beer 
here in this refine- — oh, Earth Rider, 
thanks for the Great Lakes. I wondered 
why (inaudible) — (unintelligible).”

~Joe...

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foods that make cavities are fudges, caramels and iced cake
chocolate ice cream with peppermint candy cavities make.
Fish, milk, cheese and healthy eggs are waiting in the wings.
they make your teeth strong and hard among other things...

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