Performing Poems

Premium MemberPerformance

I used to hate dresses,
The feeling of air blowing onto my legs and the need for sandals.
I hated the way my light blonde leg hair would shine so brightly in the sun.
High schoolers were so scary,
Taller than me, bigger than me, more mature.
Now I am that high schooler and I still feel that way about
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Categories: performing, body, for her, for
Form: Free verse

Performing our Friendship

What makes a person likeable?

How they look,
how they dress, 
or maybe who they’re friends with?
I think it’s about how kind they are,       
their willingness to be your friend.

“I guess we can hang out.”
“I guess we could study together.”
“I guess.”
“I guess."						        

Do you
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Categories: performing, 10th grade, anger, best
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberBallerinas

BALLERINAS

                  ballerinas
         spell-binding, exquisite
      leaping, gliding, performing
motions,marvels,memories,majesty
        thrilling, entrancing, being
        
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Categories: performing, dance, imagery, magic,
Form: Diamante

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD FOR PERFORMING HIS PURPOSE

August 26 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 51-52

Key Verse – Jeremiah 51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR PERFORMING HIS PURPOSE	

Praise be to God for
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Categories: performing, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

Performing the Warrior

I remember being forced into the darkness, my eyes adjusting. Without light the world exists in a blurry mess of gray and black figures blending together into a flurry of nothing recognizable. I'm stumbling, I'm feeling my way around. I am but a small spec against a sea of shadows. I hear it. I'm running.
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Categories: performing, age, anger, child, childhood,
Form: Free verse


The Charlie Norton School Performing Arts

At the Charlie Norton School of Performing Arts
They only taught armoured acting parts.
They had a special maintenance man
Always kept busy with his little oil can
Keeping the suits free of fleas
And all the joints moving with ease,
Especially the cunningly concealed vent
For the disposal of excrement
And the removal of noxious gasses 
Which even the refined on occasion
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Categories: performing, art, career, education, mentor,
Form: Rhyme

Performing Poets

They stand there for ages
Pouring out angst and woe,
Seeming to gain strength
As their words start to flow.
They curse and they swear,
Stand, scream and shout,
And I’ve really no idea
What they’re  talking about.

Just these loud strident voices
Hammering away in my head
I’m losing the will to live
I’ve long lost the thread.
If you thrive on your misery
Then that’s
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Categories: performing, poetry, poets, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy God, Thank You For Performing Your Oath Unto Me

July 29 Scripture Meditations Based on Jeremiah 11-15

Key Verse – Jeremiah 11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR PERFORMING
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Categories: performing, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Performing Femininity

My womb protects me, envelops me. 
The curves along my waist, breasts, stomach, all value is derived only through extremes, never from ones being.
It isn't and will never be enough 
to be average, 
to be mediocre, 
to be. 
Instead, the individual is then morphed into the epitome of femininity, postured and perfect, or quickly discarded.
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Categories: performing, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy God, Thank You For Performing All Things For Me

May 11 Scripture Meditations Based on Psalms 57-59

Key Verse – Psalm 57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. 

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR PERFORMING ALL THINGS FOR ME

Thank You for performing all things for me by Your impossibility 
Being merciful, You’re my refuge always of great
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Categories: performing, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy God, Thank You For Performing Your Word

March 30 Scripture Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 5-8

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 6:10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken…

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR PERFORMING YOUR WORD

Thank You for performing Your Word unto me 
for Your ministry’s fulfilment
According to Your grace of mercy’s complement
Around Your kindness’ supplement
Amidst my striving involvement.

Thank You for
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Categories: performing, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

A Husband Performing His Love Duty

He lets his authorized hands slip
Round his wife’s approving hip
And her impatient skirt try to strip
And later apart just rip;
To defeat the time-wasting zip
That aims to spoil things that grip
And The Normal Man trip…

A time to her either lip
Like The Newest Wine sip
And experience a waiter’s thrills from a tip
Or a tongue that did an
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Categories: performing, appreciation, baby, care, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPerforming Faith

By faith,* I can enjoy God’s provisions
…believing that He already rained manna from heaven.
By faith, I can explore along God’s protection
…being enclosed within His guarding love.
By faith, I can experience God’s power
…beholding His sustaining hands for service.
By faith, I can exercise trust in His presence
…breathing in His nearness thru prayer’s bliss.
By faith, I can exhibit
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Categories: performing, christian, courage, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse

Dr Goo Goo

Dr. Goo Goo lives in the clouds with God
Follow his instructions to the T when sick
Take two aspirin and call him in the morning
Right now is good.  Never is even better

Fevers come with a cough and a quack
Not all doctors are created equal
Some live under rocks or bridges
Deliver babies when not playing golf

Goo Goo
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Categories: performing, appreciation, business, celebrity, god,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberSuper Human

An incredible journey, a delightful insight, 
Performing under the big top,
Flying through air, on a wing and a prayer, 
Hanging just like a plumb bob,

And the tent is in black, all lights are on you, 
Dressed in your leather costume,
Every eye in the house cradles your frame, 
Hoping you don’t fall to your doom,

But you
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Categories: performing, dedication, hope, senses,
Form: Quatrain

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