Long Thespians Poems

Often in life, it's felt like on a tightrope I've been walking
between what is reality and what is merely an act.
The names of people in my story, I've chosen to redact,
those I've cheered on with...

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In the chamber of silence where souls converge,
Masks lie in wait, the nocturnal guardians of our being.
Adorned with grimaces and velvet smiles,
They are armors against the unknown arrows of the estranged world.
Oh, how they descend...

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Such joy I feel as I awaken, a brand new day ahead
My soul so full of expectation leaping from my bed
For today I am pursuing, my greatest love my hobby
With Grandma’s brooch pinned on my...

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Piecing together Harris/ Kuritsky tattered family tree
(Betsy Ross would beam at unflagging effort)

Ah, here all along yours truly
thought himself an abductee,
and/or zoologically
linkedin with chimpanzee,
hence imagine my disappointment
flipping laminated pages ye

ja undertook undoubtedly
painstaking effort,
plus wireless subcommittee
stitched...

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the great bard and Elizabethan play wright
begetting complete dramaturgy
     explaining fate hollowly airtight
succor starved, riddled smitten tattered

     sir real body politik blight
under whelming enthusiasm
   ...

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Leonore was disliked, cast aside and ignored,
her rage increased with bizarre behavior:
why couldn't she be the eternal and idolized Queen?
And envy grew towards the more successful thespians; 
her restlessness to do harm was a demon...

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Home to President Woodrow Wilson
Ivy scaled Monmouth’s outer walls
Laughter of youth from decades past
Resonated in marble-floored halls

The theater building was set apart
Further down Cedar Avenue
Another spirit stalked the stage
Where college actors made debuts

A gift from...

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Machines With Madmen Groaning


Machines with madmen groaning above me at 10 thousand feet,
Grumbling and growling like maniac sky monsters slurping on bloody prey,
Those steel dragons of yore spewing fire and corpses into the excesses,
Like Rodan...

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From Heracles immortal line sprang Kings of Agiad
The blood of Gods and heroes in mortal flesh thus clad
And such was Leonidas, half brother to the King
Cleomenes of Sparta, of whom the poets sing

When came the...

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Act One: the stage and scenery are set
I was told the play, I'd not soon forget
But if truth were to be told
More like the game, whack-a-mole
I needed a hammer, not a lorgnette

Thespians were vying for...

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This I ask not in folly but in honesty,
Perfect me gods of poetry
Make me an eyes that sees,
Make me the mouth that speaks.
Let me be the hands that writes,
The legs that walk for perfection
The tongue...

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The college kids were gathered around
   Listening to the latest stereophonic sounds
Speakers booming their tunes and melodies  
   Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Doors and Bee Gees  

Sweet scent of cheap...

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Today, upon this stage, an actress must 
Perform a tale of love and woe. 
Many roles in past, she played and executed well
But in the hushed embrace of theater's din light
The actress is tasked with...

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Nineteen nosey newts nudged nasty nautical nannies
Eighteen eager ermines excitedly edged everyone’s ego 
Seventeen sacred slugs sat sideways searching seagulls
Sixteen slippery snails slid southwards sipping sangria
Fifteen flowery foxes fell forward fondling fuchsias
Fourteen frantic fleas froze...

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I come from a family of thespians
Who turned hiding their problems into art.
Inside these walls,
We cry. We yell.
But from within these walls,
The sounds never depart.

Yet, 
somewhere among the act,
I lost the talent.

My heart can't hide...

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Dawn

How to begin this day?
We all begin it in our own way.
Some frenetic, some memetic.

The worst way is to listen to
news.
So unconcerned about killings
of Christians and Jews.
But dedicated to do anything 
for ratings and some shillings.
All...

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Lift the curtains high my bosom friend 
For beyond the darkness there is a place
 where dreams began ,
and life was born to the dead .
As merry actors dazzled and throbbed,
to walk off the stage...

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SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS

There’s a resonance in rock and roll
But also wider for other thespians too
On reaching their twenty seventh year
The man with the scythe might appear
The number grows to more than a few
As if...

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Separated by their titles
categorized by their depth
the greatest to the least greatest
honor them that are great that a world
might speak of their efforts
speak them as great
that a world might bow and honor
them

Whisper their names in...

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The world is a stage,
We are all thespians,
Same pulpit different speech,
Same director none can escape but different scripts,
Different roles and different accolades,
That's life so play your role right the universe got its camera zoomed on...

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Careful! my halo for horns are showing
And watch how they disengage
Through lies and Action! drama
Thespians take your place 
By the thorns attached with roses
Smell my loyalty...I think my soul is rotting
Oops! careful my halo for...

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