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Nureyev Poems - Poems about Nureyev


Shamrock on the Shorts

...a fairy tale of Camden Town

Clancy’s Gym, the same old sounds
a minute’s rest then two more rounds
I’ll jack this in (like Bobby Prewitt)
but where’s the one who made me do it?
He hasn’t come,...
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Categories: nureyev, image,
Form: Couplet

Old Twilight

...resting by a garden path, I watched them lean into each other
like sodden loofers in a warm pool

then they rose to walk away and her voluminous dress, (silk)
danced a parachute ballet, caressing...
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Categories: nureyev, moving on,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMight We Ever--

...Might We Ever…
            by Odin Roark

Fathom
The depth of agony
A genius creation goes through
The willingness to imagine
Beyond expectant physical endurance

Understand
The amount of p...
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Categories: nureyev, art, endurance,
Form: Free verse

Pom-Pom Man

...Glimpses I caught between the swishing traffic 
on that sidewalk in cold rain and colder wind 
and a cast-off Cleveland Browns windbreaker: a man 
tottering a mime of an off-center grandfather clock,...
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Categories: nureyev, imagination, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things