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Opening Night Poems - Poems about Opening Night


Opening Night
Auditioning for life, a one-act play Rehearsing my part, to leave or to stay The audience waiting, the stage has been set Opening night, my birth or my death (Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Categories: opening night, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Opening Night
OPENING NIGHT she slips juts hips dish flips no tips waitress flounders. she slips! juts hips! first unbalanced meal. dish flips! no tips! WORST!...

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Categories: opening night, jobs,
Form: Tyburn



Opening Night
There was a quiver of fear, of failure and of terror. The audience was out there, waiting like a lion, silent, eyes glittering in anticipation. A thin veil seperates us, reality and safety, two different things. Taking deep breaths, calming my very soul, flighty as it is. And then I take the plunge into the...

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Categories: opening night, fear, life, school, teen,
Form: Blank verse
Opening Night
With random movements but organized steps the Universe shimmers like a diva, caped with luminescent wings, as, unexcelled, she soars through the spotlight brilliance of her own production. She is the stars and lights the stage yet provides a level of mystery and noir matter to her performance that manages to bemuse her reviewers. Eluding description, much less review, her choreography, based on simple laws of...

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Categories: opening night, nature, universe,
Form: Free verse
Broadway Opening Night
The lights are slowly dimming The curtain's going up The stage-hands take their places The scenery's all set-up The Orchestra is waiting For the Conductor to cue them in The audience waits expectantly For the overture to begin The Singers wait backstage Sipping tea to warm their throats Softly singing scales And praying they'll hit...

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Categories: opening night, passion, work,
Form: Rhyme




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