Short Props Poems

reinforced concrete curves over stone ~ props up fresh air inside a dome...

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Drama against the footlight’s glare
Phantoms crouch, 
Looming shadows,
Revolving props,
The stage disappears with the play....

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His Mask

His Mask
hiding scars
props the corners
of a wall of
frozen tears
So his feelings
plummet
to fathoms depth
unreachable
forever....

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Through the window of connectedness,
    the landscape grins.
 Introspective roadways?—
    nursery clay.
All the somber mountains—
    props in a play....

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Delivering my piece with all  stage props, smouldering cigarette hurt my mouth.













(Prohibited Drug Prevention Day Declamation Contest in High School)...

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she appears like the wind
aimless she appears but aiming
at her highest props, her soul
& mother breathed fast, nay! 
faster ran the clock of her soul
faster than the propeller –...

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The cat on my tongue is after the frog in my throat
I put the counted chickens all in one basket before they hatched
Broke a pulled leg, woke up on the wrong side of the bed
And I still saw right through you...

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Long beaked puppet with eyes so devilishly dark
You have such a deep voice, it is almost a bark.
We are going to give you a dog, a hog and a shark.
You will be able to do more story lines, some of them quite a lark....

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Time is a rusted blade
Ripping when it cuts
Bone, and fat and guts.

Life is a tragic clown’s charade
Time’s nicked knife will slash;
Props, and back-drops, crash.

Only proud puppets never fade:
Sawdust hearts survive,
Deathless, unalive....

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A sexy lady in town opened her new Sweat Shop
With all kinds of towels, soaps and deodo-props
All sporty men went inside to purchase
With sweating armpits, rushed in race
Fainting in odor was her first business’ mishap.


Feb. 12, 2022  11.07pm...

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My heart is wounded,i'm a living corpse
I'm dead and buried,in my sorrow,i'm dry of sobs
My tears have dreaded,unwaiting of props
My life is tainted,i see no hopes
Tomorrow is unwaited,i've spinned like tops
For my heart is wounded,you left me a corpse...

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Painting pops with purple passion.
Whole, white and waxing
Moon magnified in magnificence.
Shadows subtly settle - scintilla 
edgework excites,
points, presents props
to watery waves -
pretty, purple and peaceful.

4/13/2023...

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So first principles
this could be formal axing mums
Theo recites while posting your lates
basic props in position
General prince pulls and has a special status
Roll to play
The ory in in bed
no impure thoughts of ass or umptions
and none will con the ventions...

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KEYHOLE

kept a secret from his

kid.  shades down on window.

keyhole is tiny. eyes

keen to glimpse world inside.

kim's birthday gift.  dad has

knack for building things.  A

kickstand props up new bike!

3/9/2017
Pleiades K contest...

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Just a thought for fans of Kdash,

K was outed by Dog named Snoop.

Video jus called her garden tool trash,

alerting brothers, he shovels the poop!


For the Chastushka contest. 

Hardly political but Snoop really reflected upon the “culture” of K.

Props to Snoop Dog!...

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My words are mirrors
of my thoughts and feelings,
my pen a hopeful maiden,
twisting and turning on the page,
feathery phrases my props,
to lure your chivalrous hands
to take me for a dance,
hoping to send electric waves,
leaving you in a trance,
to offer a home for my poems....

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Each October brings forth Halloween.
Kids love scary, weird props, unforeseen:
four-foot spider that crawls-
flying, mock bat appalls-
as does ground-breaker zombie on scene!


October 14, 2020

Contest: Halloween Inspired Limerick
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
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There was an old lady with one pair of shoes.

Now she can't find them what will she do?

She wore them last May now winter is near,

Her feet will be frozen she shivers with fear.

She builds a big fire and props up her feet,

With wood on the hearth she'll not see defeat.

10/09/2021...

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the curtain up
the stage is set
the paint still wet
on props
orchestra tunes
starting soon
excitement in my heart
a tragedy, a comedy
a script of drama and love
lines rehearsed
totally immersed
a "Tony" award for sure
final curtain call
still enthralled
as you play 
for an audience
of two...

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The solar farms, ugly and large
And props for the wind-induced snarge
It’s green they’re extolling
But blackouts are rolling 
And, best of all, no EV charge.

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snarge - noun: (military, slang) The remains of a bird after it has collided with an airplane (bird strike), especially a turbine engine....

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I must dream by a mountain
and knell by the bells
cliche after cliche
is my calling
From  Gibraltar to the Pennines
I see the lemmings meet their master
But the fireside grows dim
the crows come home to roost
Playing a deadly Violin Concerto
by the ghost riders byeway
As a single tree props the World...

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Mercurial splendor; earth, sky the 
props
Sunlight glints through 
effervescent drops
Fluorescent beams glisten through 
glowing treetops
O'er grassy plain, steel girder slides 
and hops
Colorful symphony earth's 
footstool for heaven's grandeur 
swaps
An arcing prism of neon across the 
horizon crops...

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The Gothic Quest had best
Not seek to really wrest
The truth from underneath
Time’s tightly shrouded sheath.

Across each quaint old tale
Is stretched a taut black veil
To cloak the primal dread
Hinted at, not said.

The creaking castle door—
The trap door in the floor—
Mere stage props in your soul:
Each man has a start.
There you play your part....

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Princess
oh princess, surrounded by mother nature
in your formal attire
outside of your element of social etiquette

Away from your castle
from your entourage
the props and elaborately constructed stage
artificial scripts and rules

Holding up your dress: you dance
trot through the trees, flowers, grass
going back to your carriage
stepping back into your panting...

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THE CYNICISM OF DISILLUSION or Perhaps Hamlet was right.

Disillusion frames the drama of our lives
As we lurch through props and sets with pratfalls tripped
Wood Pigeon soars to self applause and then subsides 
Fine woven fabric inadvertently is ripped
Why essay to climb the peak, perchance the ending
Where demise succeeds your rise, while descending

16 February 2019...

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