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Short Footlights Poems

Short Footlights Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Footlights by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Footlights by length and keyword.


Premium Member Star Shine
A starlet on stage, her fawning shrine
  
   Footlights dimmed ~ so too the shine...

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Categories: footlights, light, star,
Form: Epigram



Last Charade
Woefully, the footlights dim,
the magic fades—the chorus grim

A curtain falls as memory fades, 
the ending near—one last charade

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)...

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Categories: footlights, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Unmasking
Behind the walls
of his fantasy
an actor played his role
dishonest in death
dishonest in life
 face like ashen coal

Taking the stage
left, center, and right
soliloquy to fawn
each pleading rehearsed
all truth in reverse
—footlights dark and gone

(Dreamsleep: Octopber, 2021)...

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Categories: footlights, light,
Form: Rhyme
Artists Prayer
Where are all the great patrons Throw me a hook you fishers of men That I might be caught and eaten by the audience beyond the footlights That my blood be spilled on pages and canvas in prescribed portion Afford me the flame of arrogance to believe that my own hand in the fire of creation touches wonder and maybe God himself
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Categories: footlights, art, community, culture, inspiration, poetry, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, To Be a Diva
Fantasy in a red gown Face as beautiful as dawn Figure to make men weep Filling the Met with my voice Feeling the music soar Finding high C with ease Flowing, soaring, caressing Fascinating the audience Fabulous final aria Footlights up, flowers, curtain calls Oh..to sing at the Metropolitan Opera
For the Fantasy Character contest...
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Categories: footlights, career, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Be a Diva
Fantasy in a red gown
Face as beautiful as dawn
Figure to make men weep 
Filling the Met with my voice
Feeling the music soar
Finding high C with ease
Flowing, soaring, caressing
Fascinating the audience
Fabulous final aria              
Footlights up, flowers, curtain calls

          Oh..to sing at the Metropolitan Opera


For Christie’s Fantasy contest
Unfortunately, I can’t sing a note....

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Categories: footlights, fantasy
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member After The Applause
Once the curtain is down
All lights then turn to dim
Music slowly trails off
As the self bows back in

Moments of reflection
Memory becomes faint
When the thrill has left you
And you wipe off the paint

You think of what it was
That you have then just done
Knowing all it has meant
Amazed if you had fun

You aren't even quite sure
If you'll keep going on
In search of more footlights
To brighten your soul song



81 Words  Rhyme  4/20/22...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: footlights, allusion, art, introspection, light, memory, music,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things