Short Prima Donna Poems

blue jay in the yard
boisterous and beautiful
prima donna act



May 9, 2020...

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Prima donna Fish - Haiku

noodles boil in lake
water fall is the ladle 
fish prefer raw bait...

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A pristine pink petticoat prissily pranced priggishly and primly.
A prideful prima donna prisoner of Peggy’s prideful preteen
promenade....

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she gladly trades in her well-worked ballet slippers
for scruffy Converse tennis shoes for the two mile walk home
no one recognizes the prima donna in her dungarees
without makeup...

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Madonna Louise Ciccone, or simply "Madonna"
Pop matriarch; just don't call her a prima donna

Had popular 80s hits like "Express Yourself" and "Material Girl"
She expressed her sexuality boldly; made watchdog groups churl



Date: 07/20/2019...

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Those poetic,Prima Donna poets, who ignore 
you!
Oh, dear! They are here alright!
But you are insignificant, so they take their
arrogant flight.

How dare tthey not comment and read 
others all day?
Crushing Prima Donnas, hearts of mud 
and clay.
They will never see this poem, not this or 
on any of God’s days!

                  4-4-2022...

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From poverty to superrich,
A Prima Donna - some say witch -
But what a voice that lady had.
Oh, she was Tosca, driven mad,
And she was Norma, Butterfly,
And many more who loved, to die.
She died alone, a broken heart:
Maria Callas lived for art.

(witch wasn't the word I originally wrote, but it wasn't permitted - witch in this 
context means shrewish woman)....

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she took a breath thinking of her child self
the lights compelled her to begin
she danced as well as any prima donna
appreciative applause for her troupe well-earned

her daddy was finally getting to watch
his baby girl show off her intense prowess
for angels do not have maladies like blindness right?
She danced in his honor, loving the nod she received from heaven....

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Prima donna cat had ruffles on top of ruffles.
She looks clown like said our clown Muffles.
She is doing okay, she looks pretty a butterfly said.
She was so thrilled, she danced way past his head.

Prima donna cat loved her giant pink tutu.
But she has lost her left pink ballet shoe.
I need some help she said as she danced down the hill.
As far as I know she is moving that way still....

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Celebrate,
celebrate having known her,
her shallow depth and deep cold-heartedness
the seriousness that was ever there,
the facade, the pump and pain.
Celebrate the knowledge you are privileged to share,
with your family and friends, knowledge through unsavory remembrance.
Justice is but a walking shadow,
always whispering high tide, fresh bread.
And I have to yell back, no pennies, Prima Donna!...

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Am a troubled SOUL,trapped in a PIANO, by an HARPSICHORD
I STRING literal NOTES,my Te amo,
she left me dis-HARMONY,
My heart co-nun-DRUM
Its agony,TRAMPOLINES and Brass-Caps
She was my CYMBAL of hope,
the BEAT to the tints of my Night-caps...
She was my ELVIS GUITAR, tho Pricey',
She was Treasured,and Honoured,,
My MELODY,tuned to perfection,
ACOUSTIC sexually,pure SONIC and DRAMA...
My Prima Donna...

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Peacock-like vanity propelling you,     
Restless in the search for adulation,     
Image of yourself so damn inflated,    
Master of a self-centered universe;      
A great one, yes, until you ask others.

Donning a pride as a sort of armor,       
Only a world-class ego keeping you,   
Nary a thought of your worth, if any,       
None but that pretty face in the mirror;   
Ah, to be living on such shaky ground!...

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She sings

            For kings



                        Ablaze

                                They gaze



                                             Profound

                                                        The sound



                                                                     All 'round

                                                                                 Spellbound...

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Sea Minuet

Prima donna restless surf
Dance on shoreline turf
Crash to augmented beat
Trip light fantastical fleet

Pirouette high and low
Gracefully curtsy, as you go
Effervescent tutu foam
Crisscross silt return home

Sea of melodious minuet
Garner stars in silhouette
Highest regards to deep blue
 Keen tis moon to ensue

Reflections of stars on glass
Shimmer at ballerina pass
Chaotic tis waters rebuff
Beauty tis never enough...

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First chair spotlight
Prima donna given
vibrato queen, mourn scorn
and thumb-nose

percussion.  Passion can be
shallow as a whippoorwill
or deep as bass drum
got on groove

and the diva gets her tension
roses like concrete
thrown her statue.

One day a fiddler
kicked back and threw out
the mightiest bluegrass
God's earth ever smelled

was good to be there.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

by me Nancy Jones
for netteski's SOUND MADNESS
the instrument is violin...

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