Short Marionette Poems

A lump with a smile
Marionette with no strings
Coos beautiful tones


By Robb A. Kopp...

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Marionette moves
manipulator hovers
someone pulling strings...
strands of literate design
the audience is transfixed...

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Marco Rubio
would show best perhaps in a Tussaud's studio
stiff waxen smile
the Cuban marionette attempting to beguile....

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Strings severed
No more dancing
Can't dance
Useless
Lifeless
With two left feet


Date written and posted: 04/09/2016...

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Hard by brackish river's edge
  danced the tasty minnow
    angling past hook, line and sinker
     ~ agility's marionette, little stinker...

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Dangling here alone
adorned in my most special
            gingham


wishing for the sweet taste of
        dancing...take me
    please?...

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Evil-silhouetted images,
Dancing and Prancing in the Darkness...
Please tell me, am I dreaming,
Of these, Marionette Demons???

written: 04-06-1997 OCJ...

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A marionette of the void
Aware of the needle like strings,
Stranding on the edge of light
Yet covered by the veil of hollowness
A woeful homunculus, gazing at the abyss...

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WHEN I'M WITH YOU
I'M IN MY FORMER STATE
OF BEING
THE PAST
IS THICK IN HERE
IT'S HARD TO BREATHE
YOU ARE THE MASTER
PULLING MY STRINGS
TOO MUCH TO SAY
AND NOT ENOUGH WORDS.


1998...

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Marionette, 
wooden smile
desires life,
precious breath,

as father’s
wish floats 
to heaven’s ear.

By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders, September 22, 2012
for Nette Onclaud's SEPTOLET THE PUPPET Contest...

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Wooden arms, 
vanilla legs 
dance on
Prague’s cobblestones,

painted eyes 
haunt 
the musical sway.


Written by Lee Ramage
September 23, 2012
For Nette Onclaud’s contest
Septolet the Puppet...

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Running, now. 
Faster than 
Before. 

Cigarette
in hand I 
enter the 
Stage.

The priest, 
The jock, 
The marionette
All welcome me
And my sex. 

And as I bow
I did not 
Realize their 
intentions. 

Or that they are my 
Inventions....

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strung
along by
his delicious
silken kisses

seduced by
his manipulations
I’m his marionette

*In French. marionette = "little Mary"
Written 9/14/12 by Andrea Dietrich

For nette onclaud's SEPTOLET THE PUPPET Poetry Contest...

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The holly stands, still as a candle;

Lights the winter dark with roses.

A  still white cloud hangs over

Its  mirror flashes low sun

A cat stands,puzzled paw held up

God’s marionette

A worm surfaces

Do they have eyes?

Blessed be....

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...............child's dancer
..................................tripped
.......into an Odilon Redon..........
..................................painting
because she wanted to live......
        in someone else's 
                                 dream........

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Funny when the marionette turns the table on the puppeteer 
Pull the kite down or release the string so the turbulent wind takes it?




When one line is not enough Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Silent One 
Date written and posted: 06/02/2018...

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like a marionette strung up
to a couple of sticks, manipulated
by faceless hands

forced to dance to
a tune not my own
no will to disobey

dance puppet, dance
spin and jump, all the
while the strings twist

no release from
the wires that hold
strong and secure...

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He was a puppet master
She was a willing marionette
We might get married he lied
She loved the idea

They were together for fifty-two years
He is the love of my life she told everyone
Never married, for he was forever single
His blank promises kept her magic hopes alive...

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The red kings,
And the black kings,
And the kings of garnet and jasper,
Lie silently behind plexiglass
While the population
Is petrified.
Yet the red kings,
And the black kings,
And the kings of garnet-jasper,
Are only strange marionette kings
That the population themselves
Have created....

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This morning I looked up at the sky 
and it was abruptly rent in twain 
So I casually watered my new bonsai
and cast away all my pointless frets
I sat back in my seat and lit a cigarette
I sang a hymn and hummed its refrain
I felt like a dangling marionette
And all at once, life was simplified...

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Wry puppet princess just cut her strings;
Why comply and then be held captive?
Damselfly on her free wrist whispers   
‘Defy and let go of what’s submissive.’

Purge this Little Miss Marionette,
surge solo and secure the spotlight;
Splurge on a diamond encrusted crown,
emerge ready to claim your birthright....

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There is no sweeter word said than, “Winner,” spoken.
Who wouldn't want that first place blue ribbon that you've chosen 
to taunt and dangle in front of my face, what my heart desires? 
Working my winning addiction, like a foolish Marionette on wires. 



2/28/2019


Sponsored by: Bobby May
Contest: I am a Winner...

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A slice of freedom unholy, 
cut the strings of the marionette; 
Bowing, you knew your master;

Giving into the will of the master 
attracted to this dance unholy;
Went on a rampage this marionette; 

You released a mad marionette 
fed it’s murderous master,
gave it a taste of the unholy;

Cursed unholy marionette master....

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I am the marionette
My strings moved by the hand
I cannot walk or stand
Without the aid of it
I am the marionette.

I am the hand
The master puppeteer
The strings that hold you here
Worshiped by all who stand
I am the hand.

I am the end
I will cease all things
Cutting all those strings
I am enemy and friend
I am the end....

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A shadow puppet lurks,
manipulated like a mental marionette,
Creeping from the depths of my subconscious. 

The voice I hear, is no longer mine.

Lusty demons I’d not forgot
Come laughing back with sinister thought.

Gashes, scars upon my heart
Tear tender wrists apart.

Indian summer cannot hinder
October’s black internal winter....

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