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Offstage Poems - Poems about Offstage

The Echo Returns Not
...The stars dance across the sky A nightly recital of spinning and whirling They’re in the spotlight here But I know they’re invisible to him Playing hide-and-go-seek offstage I scream his name to......

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Categories: offstage, 12th grade, absence, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Dusk To Dawn
...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......

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Categories: offstage, beautiful, beauty, dark, image,
Form: Sonnet



Regenerate
...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 ......

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Categories: offstage, adventure, celebration, dedication, destiny,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Perfect Pirouettes
...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 bre......

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Categories: offstage, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Pantoum
Autumn
...November! When the auburn autumn leaves retard the tinkling brooks of Vallombrosa, and kitchen chimneys draw the old ones closer: when timid fieldmice nestle in the eaves......

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Categories: offstage, seasons,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Breath of Autumn
...I feel the breath of Autumn cooling the night when the stars shine bright. Summer surrenders to the dying and dead facing Fall with dread. And Jack Frost waits impatiently just offsta......

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Categories: offstage, 10th grade, autumn, change,
Form: Rhyme
Logical Greedy
...logical greedy uncles unshaven, rocks and arks terrified philanthropic cherubim blessing logical operators, terrified detainees stones and arks attacked through the blessing of cherubim embarr......

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Categories: offstage, allegory, allusion, creation, devotion,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Suddenly Swans
...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 mas......

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Categories: offstage, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Magician
...Black Powder --------------------------------------- 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 ......

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Categories: offstage, dark, death, good night,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Caged Bird's Appeal
...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 ......

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Categories: offstage, animal, anxiety, bird,
Form: Free verse
Kept In the Dark
...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 his cockatoo, I'll fly into an ......

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Categories: offstage, friendship, spoken word,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Kevin Spacey
...Actor Kevin Spacey Reputation’s racy After his Netflix scandalous outrage Most want to keep him offstage......

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Categories: offstage, celebrity,
Form: Clerihew
Hopes and Dreams
...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......

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Categories: offstage, appreciation, blessing, dream, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Emotional Clutter
...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 sta......

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Categories: offstage, deep, emotions, feelings, friend,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Omlet
..."OMLET" or "The Taming Of A Screwball" cast of characters: Julius Caesar A Roman Teenaged Kid A Roman Guard Brutus A bunch of Caesars Gir......

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Categories: offstage, satire,
Form: Imagism

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