Short Staging Poems

There once was a president who
 decided to stage a coup
 so he gathered a mob
 the election to Rob
 But Pence he could not subdue

 11-28-2022...

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Hallow was the love 
She knitted 
Woven empty 
And Cupped up 
As a broken egg shell
Playing the mind 
As well as the man
Staging a play 
Where we now tell 
The tinted tale...

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Vortexes of energy swirling
Being born and dying

On this staging ground unleashed
and rest in peace

Bound in time
Defying the mortal spark
An age old crime 
To be so bold in space

And weave through men
The story of beginning and end...

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Is hades your sheol,
Quietus' staging post,
A chasm to separate
Paradise from hell-

Will you await alongside the lake,
Resurrection's second death-
Or be named in the book of life,
A Christian shibboleth.


Full story@ Luke 16:19-31 & Rev 20...

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(1)
Congratulations on your wedding.
Prepare for the next staging.
Believe in your tomorrow,
wherever you are heading.


(2)
Best wishes for your marriage!
The World will bring you courage.
Take a step and find your place,
that helps you for your voyage....

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Sitting with steaming tea in hand, 
Guaging the storm raging outside, 
Splitting the sky is lightning grand, 
Waging a war staging rain ride, 
Bellowing thunder tears the sky, 
Mellowing, her heart wears a sigh! 


11.11.2022

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Rod Humphries was raging
As Keir Starmer came staging
You covid conniver!
Such lies lit this pyre'
Neath the sign of the Raven
He inferred of Keir coward craven'
Undeterred by a minder
He barred the sidewinder
Now more are wiser
We await a decider'

©Joe Maverick 22-4-2021...

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Purple-haired teens of large girth,
courageously saving the earth,
are staging big pours
in grocery stores;
they're milking for all that it’s worth!


https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/animal-rebellion-protestors-pour-milk-across-uk-shop-floors-including-harrods-an/...

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Theatre
ancient, organic
previewing, staging, performing
Sophocles, Chekhov, Ray, Tarantino
filming, screening, releasing
modern, edited
Cinema.



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Date: 22 / 10 / 2016...

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Roused by a sharp and painful cry
A known tone from very nigh;
I'm amid the storm-safe in its eye
gracefully floating-where am I?

Regaining past as the oblivion fades
The arduous life staging numerous plays;
Though life seems unfair and hard to tew
Its a chance for me to start anew......

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Dream within a dream; don't stay long
Real life slows, but mind keeps aging
The feel of falling, wakes you strong
Dream within a dream, don't stay long
Consciousness knows, there's something wrong
Memories break...song is staging 
Dream within a dream; don't stay long!
Real life slows...but mind keeps aging......

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forklifts
           
             pallets
                 
                        yogurt flavors

       staging  

                   wrappers

                                   to the doors


              trailers

                           drivers

                                          store bound grocery stores...

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                                     blueberry hued moon
                                   lullaby on stardust waves -
                                        solaces embrace

                                    all the lighting dimmed
                                   cryptic fairies azure blue -
                                       audacious staging...

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Remembrance of « Creation » 1963 (MM)
(Marcel Marceau 1963)

Face white-clown-painted 
hands crossing invisibility
in a white-gloved glissade

a soft, silent shifting, 
a step-slide 
over non-existent windows, walls and doors

a glide into gesture

into signing
a seeking

into a stirring
a knowing 
a genesis 

the stage, his staging
the spotlight on 
in a spotlit silence...

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Elevated and poised, exuding an air of grace

she steps smartly, in a fluid motion.

Perfectly balanced.

like a lissome gazelle on tippy toes.

Staging each step, she adds her own unique flare

confident, yet feminine enough, to flow natural

not practiced.

With her sensual sassy swing

she’s alluring, and yet, discernibly unapproachable!


(Free Verse)


6/6/2018...

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you brush up against my senses
staging a full frontal assault
sending me reeling, too much feeling
bouncing me off of the walls

you tether me with longing
a cord braided with hope and belief
you lasso my heart with loving
and love songs you sing just to me

you orchestrate my memory
in dreams where the magic befalls
burrowing yourself deep under my skin
oh the depths and the wonder of it all...

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a wide
    expanse
a staging post
of touching
       empathy
in
a smile
  remembered
 pausing
to serenade
the future
   before
 heading to
tomorrow


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived...

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Hush,is that a knock upon your door,
A guest,who is seeking more,
Someone,perhaps come to dine
A feast for two and then
Converse in fellowship divine

Fall has the middle wall,
In two,the veil is  torn
Emnity has no call-
With Him,our cornerstone
No longer,we....forlorn

Is Hades your sheol
Quietus staging post
A chasm to separate,
Paradise from Hell

Will you await along the lake,
Resurrection's second death-
Or be a name in the Book of Life
His name on your forehead...

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Alabaster staircase framing chandeliers
    Picassos, Renoirs, Van Goghs lining the walls
  Marble floors, dazzling in the starlight
    Polished perfection staging the Night

  Dainties, delicacies, tray after tray
    Sweetmeats, exotic fruits, more on the way
  Debonair men in their tuxes emerge from limousines
    Women goddesses wear sequined gowns, leggy queens

  Playboys, playgirls of the Riviera making the scene
    Jealousy left wondering what it all means...

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why would she do such a thing
right in the middle of the most
important party you'd ever thrown
a party that would make or break
your career your way of life for as
far as you could possibly peer into
the future my god doesn't she
know that staging is everything
and timing has gone the way of
the blackberry so ok get a grip
she went ahead and she did it
she threw up a hairball she's a
cat for crying out loud what do
you expect when you give her 
red wine with fish...

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It's first lived out behind the curtains,
It's rehearsed in the chamber,  
In the spotlight of the mind,  
In the theatre of the heart, 
A stage is set,
The script is acted,
The scenes are played,
They are run to the end,
Or paused to be played later,
If the stage hasn't been phased out,
If the dream hasn’t been cloaked by the night, 
In the mind dreams are staged,
In the heart, a class system dwells.




July 28, 2022.
2022 Poetry Marathon Mile10 Poetry Contest,
Mark Toney....

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