Short Limelight Poems

Punxsutawney Phil
a whole line in this haiku ~
  hogging the limelight...

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limelight limericks
like long lofty lessons learned
lonely lean lives lived...

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You’re trapped under the limelight,
One camera click unleashed your silhouette....

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Sarah Palin
Former governor, limelight failing
Famous quotes sometimes loom big:
You can’t put lipstick on a pig...

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Aiming for limelight 
All of them are not eyeless
Better start to pray
I’m imminent for your life
I’ll shoot you thousand periods...

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Limelight can burn;it never heals,
no matter fame how good it feels -
succombing to excesses, worse,
resisting not temptation's curse....

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George Bush went up top for a walk
You should have heard Donald Trump squawk!
"It MUST be a crime!
The limelight is mine!"
(The peafowl was once a peacock)...

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Limelight, band music, fanfare
Politicians love gala affairs
Hidden in secret plans sealed
Who would have thought such a deal
By politicians who seemingly care...

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“Limelight ‘52”


you may debate 
which was greater

Chaplin or Keaton 
but don’t regret

you can see both
meaning each one

in a violin 
and piano 

du
et...

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Her husband was a concert pianist,
always in the limelight
When he passed, she was inconsolable and miserable
Until she found a flower on his piano
Red rose from heaven...

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At last here I sit 
Squarely in the limelight 
The gallery is at peace
With a tad bit tension
Longing for ease
And it falls upon my shoulders
The responsibility to please...

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Dancing my way 
out of your Hell on a trapeze; 
Dancing my way 
in brisk motion I disobey; 
Flying high I could never freeze; 
Every ounce of limelight I seize 
dancing my way....

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latent privacy
emerges into the limelight,
into the unfamiliar:
emptiness
exhaled
anguish abolished
destroyed:
insignificance
dismantled
despatched
to the extremities
of life...

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Biden-lovers wish Trump would slink away
But his agenda's not finished, so he will stay

   in the limelight, whether they like it or not
   cheered on by his supporters, a hearty lot...

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You have to be naked
inside a Poem

Exposed in its limelight,
a baby new born

Starving the doubt
by feeding the fear

Everything revealed
—your back to the wall

(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)...

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fish eye lenses
pretenses 
all the worlds a stage
we are merely pretenders

triple entendre 
RUSH to see
the Moving Pictures

cry as they go by 
taken away 
from tonight's 
Limelight 


~JSL...

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prairie glazed by moon

lanterns hanging on twigs’ palms

robin serenades

trailing down the river deep---

Luna's gleam, an eve's limelight



Cynosure Contest: Nayda Ivette Negron
28 June 2016...

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Strong passions and good expressions with no backside
slowing the limelight, brings in assisted suicide
the huge footprints they track
away from a fall they pack
pool of dears, cautioned by personal pesticide....

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She stands, hallowed in sunlight, no, limelight
Waving manicured hands at screaming fans
Smiling at the flashbulbs
Empty eyes not really seeing
Empty mind not really comprehending
Empty heart constanlty weeping....

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I often add beauty to your song,
enhancing nouns is where I belong;
however,place upon me a curb,
for I,the limelight steal from your verb;
my over-use can bbe a curse,as
too much of this good thing,clots a verse....

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The season's almost over,
and I hate seeing it leave
without a whisper,

complaint or compliment,
while poets
bask in literary sunlight,

thinking the moment is eternal.
April's month of poetry
is soon to end....

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Duet on the crystalline sea —
    Limelight of the moon circles the waltz.

Beyond the border of the ship,
     the sensation of surrendered selves.

4/29/2019
Crystal Clear 
Sponsor - Joseph May
Image #2...

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Pummy the pumpkin refused to be sliced

Resisted against being sacrificed 

For modern Pagan delight

Did not fancy the limelight

Turned the knife against trivial zeitgeist



30th October 2019

howmanysyllables.com...

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Imprinted flash of thine eye
Painted on vastness of sky 
Embrace of warmth and limelight
Radiates my sullen night
Recaptured treasures of hope
Withstand all debris of slope
Basking under the lagoon,
Reminds me of lovely moon...

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Secret 
That is hidden 
From the minds of many,
Some tried to dig deep to expose ;
Good deeds to mankind that’s yet to be told,
Values that when brought to limelight,
Eyes  and ears will twinkle,
Which is my deep 
Secret  .

8-25-2018...

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