Short Foyer Poems

A lifetime goes by
just hanging about in the foyer
waiting for the right movie.

Then you realize
you're the only theater in town....

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I won a lunch for two with Tom Sawyer
And there he was waiting in the foyer 
  He wore his best old straw hat
  But was told "You can't wear that" 
Good thing I'm a hayseed defense lawyer...

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I folded into the dark wooden foyer
that reminded me of the church confessional when I was a boy

the images that got conjured up in there
the smell of burning incense

I lit a match then
I passed out then...

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I once had to hire a fine lawyer 
After, Huck spilled paint in my foyer 
Known the laywer to be good...
Like the folklore; Robin Hood 
Maybe, I should have hired Tom Sawyer  


Limerick II Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Joseph May 
1/9/2019...

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The Foyer Of The Heart


In the center there’s
a hollow

small, enclosed,
oval like a locket

called the foyer 
of the heart.

There the bullets 
carom while 

the widow,
room to room, 

hunts her man 
around the house.


Donal Mahoney...

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R.  Resounding peace
E.  Enters to the
F.  Foyer of my spirit
L.  Leaving a lullaby 
E.  Etching an outline
C.  Calming down
T.  The chaos within
I.  Installing instead peace
O.  On the inside of my heart
N.  Never giving back the
S.  Scantions of the chaos I've evicted....

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You were holding me so tight,
I could’nt  breath
But in a crowded room I did’nt want to be
I struggled and wrestled against you
As I pleaded please release me let me go
Finally you dashed out into the foyer
Whoosh!  Yippee!
 I am a naughty little air bubble that just got free
...

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my thoughts are loud
my screams are silent
as I peer through a broken windowpane

you prance in the foyer while playing taps
upside a blood-stained wall

your revelations penetrate the rooftop
my dreams of happiness
have lost their glow

a skeleton of forgotten origin
undresses at our front door...

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A foxy fugitive
Took a French leave in France
Running away from a freezing point
Later, she found her fresh face in the foyer of a freeman freudman
And her fragrance in his free love
After many a fully full moon 
Wherein French kisses had went on with many French letters.....
Five months later, she was found with child....

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A lifetime plays out
as you watch a movie screen,
or hang around in the foyer,
waiting for the right movie to start.

Then you realize you have always been
the only projector in town.

The cinema has changed over the years,
yet still, it was always your light
on the screen.

One day you ask yourself:

Just where have I been?...

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A foyer of light's light
smiling loved ones to the side
a peace beyond earthly peace
a peek into the afterlife
e=mc2 is meaningless 
here
miracles are commonplace
if only we could open up and see them
the stem of the water lily
thin ribbons to heaven
gateways to eternity.

The flesh is brief
shed the flesh cocoon 
and taste this unearthly peace
if you will....

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The poet sits
At the lower table
While his wife
Addresses the group.
Suddenly, she directs
Her remarks to him,
Spitting out words like
Bullets, wounding his
Spirit and his pride.
He quickly rises
To leave the room,
Dropping his poetry
Notes to the floor,
Upon reaching the
Foyer, realizes his
Marriage is over--
Just like that.

written August 27, 2021...

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I bought a chandelier 
and built a house around it

It was one of a kind
and heavy too
it reminded me of a castle

So I took it home
put it in the attic
because 
there was nowhere to hang it

It had to have space
to hang
It needed room
to be seen

So the house was built
to house 
the chandelier

And now it hangs in the foyer
of my home
And my home 
hangs like the chandelier
over my head...

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Impoverished, destitute no money to spare
This woman with green eyes and cascading hair 
On a mission to find something to wear
Impress she must as though she hadn't a care
Green velvet drapes hanging in her foyer
Torn down and fashioned just for her
This woman in green shown like a mare
Femme fatal, Scarlett O'Hara, as no others compare
Dressed to kill as only she dare
In the green dress that she did wear...

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Sunlit Cascais

Today the sun shines
Over the bay, a pilot boat 
Is going out
To take a small coast ship
into Lisbon.
In the night
the couple upstairs
made robust love
Plaster fell as snow
on our bed.
And that was ok
ing is better than war
I know the woman
often see her in the foyer 
she looks haughty and chaste
and unsmiling.
Not that I would tell
about her nightly desire
but the falling plaster
it is a worry....

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Late for the date.
He entered the hotel
through its revolving doors.

Missing the right turn, the precise gap
in which to step forward,
he staggered rearwards onto the back glass,
then bounced, like a jack rabbit
into the foyer.

She, of course, coolly witnessed
this comic entrance.

When he sheepishly handed her
the crushed and bedraggled roses,
he knew that he was definitely not
getting laid that night
or possibly ever....

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At first they were in love, but soon he preferred
those sexy curves of his cute blonde employer
The divorce rate’s soaring I recently heard -
see forlorn people stand in the court foyer.
Love is actually a four-letter word,
the real winner of it all is their lawyer!
I think it’s so sad when a romance is dead…
He shouldn’t have slept in another girl’s bed!

Love is actually contest
Sponsored by John Anderson

07-31-17...

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eyes wide earth at my feet 
standing there I cough 
while tugging at a loose
string I approach the foyer 
dazzled by grit lock surprises 
cautiously I sneeze waving 
all rights to a fresh handkerchief 
silence abodes as the rough 
dragging sound of two large pumps 
stuffed in a crowded elevator 
one word expressed repeatedly 
morning morning morning
my thoughts were posh 
and rather timid as a voice 
announced hey Hank  
this will be my stop...

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On that last unsuccessful date 
he had entered a hotel 
through its revolving doors…
missing the right turn, the precise gap
in which to step forward, 
he staggered rearwards onto the back glass, 
then bounced, like a jack rabbit 
into the foyer.
She, of course, coolly witnessed 
this untimely comic entrance.
When he sheepishly handed her
the crushed and bedraggled roses,
he knew that he was definitely not 
getting laid that night
and possible ever....

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