Footlights Poems - Poems about Footlights

Human Folly

...When standing alone on a dark stage
   of the unknown
where eyes read the scribbled script
   of life's lonely pages
internal tears endlessly fall
creating pools of painful regrets
   that disc...

Leaves

...

There's nothing left of Autumn but the leaves
They swirl and scatter, meet then disengage
The moon shines silver footlights in the sheaves
and turns the marble court into a stage

She draws ...

Beloved Birthday Memories

...
The aroma of mellow gardenias, the dance of a ballerina, 
the sound of an Italian concertina

Purple, shaded, toe shoes that glide across a stage with 
footlights and an applause of ...

A Kept Woman

...Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a mascu...

After The Applause

...Once the curtain is down
All lights then turn to dim
Music slowly trails off
As the self bows back in

Moments of reflection
Memory becomes faint
When the thrill has left you
And you wipe off...

Grounded In the Night

...He saw the world in burlesque,
light dancing upon the stage
The great blue fanning ocean
and rainbow colored pastie orbs
Caught between the music and the
shadow of the extreme
The curtain falli...

The Unmasking

...Behind the walls
of his fantasy
an actor played his role
dishonest in death
dishonest in life
 face like ashen coal

Taking the stage
left, center, and right
soliloquy to fawn
each pleading...

Dances With Leaves

...Leaves of burnished gold take flight
                          Whirling spirals, with childish delight

                            A final pirouette without a sound
                            B...

Casting Earth's Redemption

...I need you to sing
the straight white male lead
in Phantom of Our Opera
as a Catch-22 steed.

I don't sing with wit
and I won't dance without it.

If that's a no,
but hard for you to show,
...

The Visit

...My jaunt through over crowded hallways
       past bodies grouped like gulls gathering
       a grey murmuring

       patients on overdose
       their creased faces like glaciers streaked 
  ...

Star Shine

...A starlet on stage, her fawning shrine
  
   Footlights dimmed ~ so too the shine...

Crumpled Thoughts

...Crumpled Thoughts 

They wait – in hues of vibrating silence -
Like leftover orts of rumpled paper wimples 
On creased clandestine journal pages –
Bent scraps of wrinkled inspiration
Smudged mo...

The Best Relationship

...Is standing at the footlights, with
        a crowd, unknown and that you
        cannot see!
        With smoke billowing to the ceiling.
        You share your Funny Stories
        with total...

Last Charade

...Woefully, the footlights dim,
the magic fades—the chorus grim

A curtain falls as memory fades, 
the ending near—one last charade

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)...

Heart Sutra

...
          Heart Sutra

The moonlight, the firelight,
the scent of your cologne.
Enchanting, oh!
Our toes in amorous games 
do play, shadow dancing.
The flames act as our footlights 
and...

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