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Dramatist Poems - Poems about Dramatist

Premium MemberSea nymph

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sea nymph falling prey
to harsh world realities
~ love overrated



Inspired by Ondine which is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella Undine by ...
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Categories: dramatist, betrayal, heartbreak, love, relationship,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberPotpourri of new verse - some could be better, some could be worse

...I always wanted to be a medieval jester,
the one who sneaks up behind the queen
and makes her guess who caressed her.
I always wanted to be the Lord of Misrule,
King Lear's sad foo...
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Categories: dramatist, angst, dark, i am,
Form: Rhyme



Shakespeare

...The world's greatest dramatist,
The world's greatest sonnet writer of all time,
The man with supreme knowledge,
The man with a genius brain,
Many writers may come and go,
Yet none can exceed the...
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Categories: dramatist, celebration, devotion, inspirational, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse

The Wicked Wonderment of We

...Eyes of black - Heart of cold
He was the missing piece of my soul
He entered my world dressed in leather and lookin' mean
He was a delicious scream within' a dream
The Nevermore of Forevermore - ...
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Categories: dramatist, dark, desire, fantasy, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberthe real and the unreal

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A poet paints a leaf greener than it is,
a dramatist makes the story more tragic,
human nature crave for what unreal gave,
ignores reality that may hold more bliss,
those large white marble scu...
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Categories: dramatist, devotion, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberBeneath the inscrutable sky, blinded by divided eternities

...Beneath the inscrutable sky, blinded by divided eternities,
We are islands of yearning, adrift in fate,
Each bearing a mysterious longing, a desert within the chest,
And with every heartbeat, my s...
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Categories: dramatist, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGiving Today For Someone's Tomorrow

...We all have our lives to do
remind ourselves a purpose given
show no selfish mind of thought
fully directed and purpose driven

It's so easy to forget others
selfishness runs through our veins
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Categories: dramatist, giving, today, wisdom, words,
Form: Rhyme

Angel Eyes

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"Angel Eyes" 

that dark angel
standing in the corner
observing the shadows of man 
pass him by -

he has angel eyes

that shine high beam
bright bushfires that light ...
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Categories: dramatist, art, muse, truth,
Form: Free verse

The Splice of Life

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“The Splice of Life”



When colour 
was to be 
washed out
of the world 

the evil ones 
didn’t care

the Actor led 
with his 
Dementors 
either side of him

La...
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Categories: dramatist, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat Else

...'Hole in Heaven' composed by the certain dramatist of India
Depicting the Heaven captured by earthly power-mania
Yahweh’s three-leg-throne getting easily bombarded 
And the whole heavenly communio...
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Categories: dramatist, literature,
Form: Free verse

W S Rendra Translations

...W. S. Rendra translations

Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra (1935-2009), better known as W. S. Rendra or simply Rendra, was an Indonesian dramatist and poet. He said, “I learned meditation and th...
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Categories: dramatist, international, relationship, time, travel,
Form: Sonnet

We Danced By Poet John Heck

... We Danced  written by Poet John Heck

I penned a couplet for you today.
Rather, a quill manipulated
my hand and scrawled mendacity.
The misanthrope's who read the ode
applauded with fli...
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Categories: dramatist, absence, death, poetry, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Adam Mickiewicz Translation: the Ruins of Balaclava

...Sonnet: The Ruins of Balaclava
by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, barren Crimean land, these dreary shades
of castles?once your indisputable...
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Categories: dramatist, death, depression, grave, romantic,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberAn Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore

...Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one o...
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Categories: dramatist, life, loss,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberPostmodern Nostalgia

...A covert curtain raiser pulls a string and marvels at an epic scene

	Though parsimonious in essence the stage appears rather obscene

		Black cross and pitch dark raven on bold charcoal sable ta...
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Categories: dramatist, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

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