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Spotlights Poems - Poems about Spotlights

The Hollow Stage
... ‘All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.’ (As You Like it Act 2, Scene 7) (A Son......

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Categories: spotlights, appreciation, life,
Form: Sonnet
Face to My Demons
...At the cradle of my nightmares, My future is a horror film, I track my ghosts, Like a junkie in withdrawal. I am a true clandestine calamity, A mass grave of silent suffering, A candelabra of p......

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Categories: spotlights, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



The Flying Dutchman
...Hoisted high Black flags sail, Camouflaged by a misty veil, A bow braced with forward guns, Upon a ship no-one outruns, This sight was seen through a scope, A view of horror crushing all hope, ......

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Categories: spotlights, dark, death, myth, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Proximo
...Effervescent smoke, a pair of white hot spotlights; We’ll ball proximo.......

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Categories: spotlights, emotions, feelings, fun,
Form: Senryu
Storm in a Tea Cup
...Tiny tremors trigger tumultuous tantrums inside, Like a whispered secret, that refuses to subside, Trivial troubles trip, tender ties that once did bind, Leaving love's landscape littered,......

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Categories: spotlights, anger, anxiety, conflict, emotions,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member moon beams
...like spotlights on house moonbeams highlight area even coons are scared......

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Categories: spotlights, animal, moon,
Form: Haiku
Once 'pon a poetess
...Tuesday, 12:00 am Tonight t'was the stars I'll cascade a memorizing moon Glimmering sanctified silence along with trickling twilight for iconoclast in......

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Categories: spotlights, devotion, introspection, journey, passion,
Form: Imagism
Tedeschi Trucks Band
...Econo Lodge sign High On Its Pylon Best we can do For you Tedeschi Trucks To put a moon in the sky Over this interstate interchange Jammed with cars and a de......

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Categories: spotlights, emotions, giving, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bait
... Title 2/ BAIT Quote: Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. William Blake The transiting sun shines on you deceptively, spreads shifting spectrum in chameleon sky, the mas......

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Categories: spotlights, analogy, betrayal, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Spiralised westerns are not the same
...Roll the credits on what's-his-name, walks like Eastwood, talks just like Wayne, saddled up on his trusted steed, pistol packing, sure he'll succeed, stealing the sunset, final frame. Red carp......

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Categories: spotlights, film, western,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member The Lonely Maestro
... They say Maestro, but standing ovations leave me cold like leftover spaghetti too long in the fridge then thrown out with the trash, where all useless things end up leaving only empty containe......

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Categories: spotlights, angst,
Form: Free verse
Unlikely Mike, for Michael Jackson
...Unlikely Mike by Michael R. Burch I married someone else’s fantasy; she admired me despite my mutilations. I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine. I hid my face and changed its conno......

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Categories: spotlights, blue, divorce, dream, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love is a Metaphor
... Love is a metaphor, which glows in vibrant hues. An abstract masterpiece from Da Vinci's palette, easing souls to feel peace. Love is a metaphor. A guiding moon compass with spotlights at ......

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Categories: spotlights, love,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member Imagination
...A muddy toad 'ribbits,'   before leaping away - to which I ponder, if fairy tales were true, who's 'Prince Charming.' would you be? I smile, in the quiet pond's reflection. I can see fading ......

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Categories: spotlights, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Empathy of Elements with Ink Empress
... When life parades a fine line between alienation and rationality, internal intruders of the soul shroud spotlights. In my dreams I'm playing charades with the grim reaper. surround......

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Categories: spotlights, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

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