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Proscenium Poems

A lost heart

...A lost heart

Live without a heart is impossible, but witness is a life
This life lives without any human feeling and love encounter
Is this a life? Only an old abandoned crumbling dusty theatre
...

Categories: proscenium, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Inspired By Anton Chekhov's Swan Song

...Prince in nawab's costumes
Shouted in the dark Proscenium,
-Who's there, bequeath thousand gold coins
among the poorest citizen of my domain
Did anyone find those words?
breath-Stop flare, someb...

Categories: proscenium, cry, emotions, fantasy, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Five Elemental Monoku

...I. BISMUTH  [83]
rainbow-sheened cubist castles -- silver-pink of hue 

II. IODINE  [53]
gunmetal grey crystals sublime -- and billow purple 

III GALLIUM  [31]
metallic grey and stiff...

Categories: proscenium, nature, science,
Form: Monoku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Swing, Sweet Child

...Swing, sweet child
   Kick your legs high
Swing, sweet child
   Reach for the sky

The swing's your pendulum
   Gather momentum
The world's your proscenium
   Elicit oohs and aahs from the pl...

Categories: proscenium, child, sky, stars, sweet,
Form: Rhyme

How To Turn Left

...Stand under the proscenium arch
Listen to show tunes till doomsday comes
Dawn with the songs of ever lasting darkness

Tap dance your last dance on Broadway 
Burn the last lime light down
Take ...

Categories: proscenium, adventure, car, crush, education,
Form: Didactic

What Is a Sunset

..."A sunset is the proscenium between Heaven and Earth 
where Gods reminds us that he is
 always close by."...

Categories: proscenium, beach, earth, ocean, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

Copla 66 Invocation This Bad Guy World

...COPLA 66 INVOCATION: This Bad Guy World

High ideals aims des hautes visées
To stand on tested principles
You don’t reward

For You it’d seem sometimes nausée
You caution mixing with infidels
...

Categories: proscenium, allegory, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Actors All

...Actors All
            by Odin Roark

To fool
Or be fooled
Innate competition for
Life’s continuance sweepstakes

Real life’s honesty
Knows survival of the fittest
Relies on impression’s ar...

Categories: proscenium, life,
Form: Free verse

The Story of History

...The Story of History  

Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With  the resurrected  sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps   at the pretentious  prosc...

Categories: proscenium, history,
Form: Free verse