Winter
...In warm embrace of gravity blanket,
I feel lazy and sluggish!
The fog outside melting on the glass,
Is beseeching entry to my cozy blanket!
I must ignore and defy,
But the whiff of hot caffe...
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Categories:
dramatists, winter,
Form: Narrative
Le Probleme Avec Des Blancs - Translation of Jim Everett's the White Man Problem By T Wignesan
...Le Problème avec des Blancs – Translation of Jim Everett’s « The White Man Problem » by T. Wignesan
(Jim Everett, Mawbana Pleregannana, b. 1942 on Flinders Island, Tasmania, has had a chequered...
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Categories:
dramatists, discrimination, power, prejudice, racism,
Form: Quatrain
An Ode To Loss
...In knowing how my heart aches, I know not
Where to hide my sorrow. Etched, onto flesh
So numbed, by the cold break of tomorrow.
My thoughts it would seem, merely cascading
Sullen faces; the infi...
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Categories:
dramatists, bereavement, depression, relationship,
Form: Ode
Pretentious Collaboration Written During Conversation (Credit To Emmily Rosa)
...I
"Gotta job as a nanny!"
"Maybe they'll hire me as a butler"
"Butler and nanny always live
in close quarters"
She winks
He raises and eyebrow suggestively
II
"I love flirting with poets
s...
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Categories:
dramatists, people, love, may, time,
Form: Free verse
William Shakespeare
...He penned plays in verse with great ease
But just his rivals to displease
Greene called him upstart crow
And reading him, even Marlowe
Raised eyebrow
Playwright and actor in theatre
Shrewd ob...
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Categories:
dramatists, life, philosophy, uplifting,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Alphabet Soup
...Admirable Almights all I ask appreciatively allow me to attain,
be beyond bourgeois breeding ballads for the brain.
Create colloquialisms that cast competently into chimeras,
directing dramatis...
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Categories:
dramatists, art, confusion, family, imagination,
Form: I do not know?