Long Offstage Poems

REGENERATE :

Doctorated at a premium university,
Lost his concentration to absurdity,
Discarded his desire for rationality. 
Sorry for this dude's unfortunate category.
As solemn as his heart aches,
Peace was lost from the face.
Deep troubles that he stake,
Wrong squad...

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Noah will go First, soaring out of the Desert,Up and throughThe Surrounded  Horizon ----of curt 
Offstage Smiles, Indigo children who are Rain from the Sun.Wings of Alabaster Sin. {Death, in 
your Arms}The affect is most...

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logical greedy
uncles unshaven, rocks and
arks terrified philanthropic cherubim blessing
logical operators, terrified detainees stones and
arks attacked
through the blessing
of cherubim
embarrassed greedy uncles
unshaven, basins and stones, cherubim terrified
bothered
embarrassed with
blessing, agglutinate greedy
uncles' rocks thorough meaning
of rock reservoirs hassling cherubim
terrified...

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I remember the grey slithers of rain,
The jocular driver
As I boarded the bus
At Temple Meads,
And the friendly lady who told me
When we had arrived at the city centre.
I remember the little pub on King Street,
With...

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I am MacDougal's parrot, he taught me how to speak,
    Whenever i repeat an obscene word, he chides, excuse your beak.
    It happens when folk ask him, if i'm...

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"OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
(Or: Rules Are Written By Idiots, Followed by Fools)
    ...

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"OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
      cast of characters:
    ...

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Our Tall Duckling (original title)

Our daughter, always through her childhood,
at least a head above any other girl in her class,
stands somewhere offstage now 
with long lashes darkened by mascara
and with lips and cheeks painted pink.
She...

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"OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
      cast of characters:
    ...

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"OMLET"
            or
      "The Taming Of A Screwball"
      cast of characters:
    ...

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God has hopes and dreams for us,
I dream of getting married to a handsome man again.

Dream of buying a beautiful cottage,
Living in the true north,

I hope to become a performer,
Used to play the piano for...

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It had been a day full of miraculous detail.

Freezing rain played the ground like a kettle drum.

Trees snapped and flowers curtsied 
before engaging in a pas de deux 
with blades of grass on the stage...

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Black Powder
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He waits offstage, his posture tense,
his gaze locked on the audience -
his first in years.

He blots the sweat that wets his face,
then walks onstage and gets in place,
amidst their cheers.

In bowtie, vest and dinner...

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November!  When the auburn autumn leaves
retard the tinkling brooks of Vallombrosa,
and kitchen chimneys draw the old ones closer:                ...

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I've just spied my first snowflake of the year;
dancing on a breeze, it swirled in the air.
Autumn's practically over, I fear;
and Winter's frosty reign is not as fair.

Dancing on a breeze, it swirled in the...

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So many of my friends have come and gone
like shadows consumed by the dark of night;
and my heart misses their extinguished light.
For once, each one shone as bright as the dawn;
they stayed awhile; then, the...

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A red sun, pooling like a drop of blood,
coagulates at the edge of darkness.
And night flows over its shadows, a flood
black as pitch, inking a seamless starkness.

A gilded moon, like a pitted gold coin,
beams in...

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Because I am confined to a little cage
no one ascertains my songs offstage
When I can't spread my tethered wings
or when I can't accept the intricate things,
I soberly weep in my own cage

But you envisage it...

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