Footlights Poems - Poems about Footlights

...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......

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... 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 ......

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... 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 ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...Leaves of burnished gold take flight Whirling spirals, with childish delight A final pirouette without a sound B......

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...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, ......

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...My jaunt through over crowded hallways past bodies grouped like gulls gathering a grey murmuring patients on overdose their creased faces like glaciers streaked ......

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

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...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......

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...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......

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...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)......

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... 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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