Short Playhouse Poems

Hunted by my past
My soul is bound and chained
Running while in place
Mind's crevices a playhouse
For the demons in my mind...

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"shack"
gray wood
my playhouse
outer backyard
my fantasy place
where my secrets were kept
my own world of make believe
childhood place where thoughts become dreams
a mansion in the eyes of a child...

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Santa and Frosty went to the playhouse
A Disney movie with candy, popcorn
A small squeaky between the sits, a mouse
Theater closed, they stood outside forlorn


12/22/2020


Christmas Chastushka - Rules Revised Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich...

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Memory Made By Hands

Dad’s
hands
were skilled
and could build
almost anything
his masterful mind could conceive.
With meticulous care he crafted his creation,
laboring to construct a little playhouse in the yard on my birthday, just for me.

10/24/17

Dust Off A Memory
Sponsored by: Broken Wings ...

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In search of long lost orchards
where apple blossoms bloom;
an ole white ashen farmhouse
and corncrib-playhouse rooms.

Searching for the scent of pine
where lingering laughter lies,
for the summer days gone by
and seashells on the tide.

Hungering for spruce gum chaw
we dug from crooks of trees
for the tart and bittersweet
memories of childhood deeds....

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dragged from grey waters
dragged from war's hungry mouth
there's a door on top of a birch tree

point me to the checquered carpets
on the roof of the albino hearse
point me to the playhouse building
where we can watch
noir movies on a saxophone
point me to the fireworks in the mist
and bury me up in the cellar
under the highway or the ocean floor
where fly riders turn
into floodraisers...

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Locks of golden hair
Embrace her angelic face
Happiness all hers
Sadness not a trace.

She dances like the wind
Ice-skating is a breeze
What a talented child
She does it all with ease.

She has two loving parents
And little brother Vaughn
A dog, a cat, her own playhouse
What a wondrous life has dawned.

This adorable little girl
A picture of perfection
Her parents do adore
Their darling little Madison....

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In the Corner

First day of school for all my life,
I screamed “Fire, Fire” out the playhouse site.
Teacher calmed down the class’ alarm.
Stood me in a corner to do no harm.

In the corner, in the corner, I often went,
for talking or some other event.
The Kindergarten room caught fire anyway.
Burned to a ruin on Easter Sunday.

3/26/17

In the Corner 
Sponsored by: Anthony Slausen...

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Premiered at Gin Mill Playhouse, Seattle, WA – 3/6/2007		

ACT 1

My Trip to the Lake
Hard All Over
Cinderella after Midnight
Beef Jerky and a Bottle of Wine
Quiet Down the Mountain

ACT 2

Parched Corn in the Dry Tortugas
Living on Bread Alone
Gambler’s Confession
Edge of a Dime
Sociology 101
Bull of the Woods

ACT 3

Esméralda
Spring City
Prisoner of Need
Missing Melissa
Half a World Away
What Have You Done?
The Final Word...

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Newly built scenes
Rise in my eye
Erected lovers playhouse
Mine spirit floated
As day call came night
Bodies work ne’er done
The splendor of your dreadful hours
Yet you sing your joy soft and right
Ye have no more other desperate plight
Putting up your flag and tower
Now we two face solitude alone
Every bit of your smile a sight
On your loveliness I gloated
Cheeks like a little mouse
Breath from your mouth just sighs
I stand so close to you, shadows I cling....

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