Dawn Steps Lightly into the Day
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Silence quells the bells
as dawn sneaks into the space,
where darkness reigned supreme.
All is hushed and holding back.
For something to be assembled.
From the dis-membered memories,
litteri...
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Categories:
understudies, day, morning,
Form: Free verse
The 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)
By Shake...
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Categories:
understudies, humor,
Form: Free verse
M N O P Q R S T U V W
...Mini mangy monster Marvin moo
Nearly never noticed anything new
Outrageously outgoing onset overdue
Plunking his plush posterior on a pew
Quizzically questioning Curly-Q
Respecting ruffians Brew...
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Categories:
understudies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
In Your Orbit
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For the hundredth time in my lifetime,
I've placed my love between the stars,
In the void of black at the canvas of space.
It isn't mine to behold, not now, truly never,
But I'd like ...
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Categories:
understudies, 10th grade, autumn, break
Form: Tercet
An Arrangement
...The new 'Betagrain' produce store,
advertised for a manager.
The directors were more than pleased,
with the regime of Teddy Tiesler.
Ted’s to have two understudies;
Robby James and old Billy Sym...
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Categories:
understudies, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Break a Wingtip - For Contest
...harbingers of hope
heavenly understudies
waiting in the wings
4/3/2016
submitted to – Senryu on Angels – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Marvin Celestial...
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Categories:
understudies, angel,
Form: Senryu
Every Poem Has a Story
...Every poem has a story,
camouflaged, primped, made up and dressed to the hilt;
fill ins, understudies and leads,
are rehearsed, played, acted out and filmed.
Within the start all life ...
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Categories:
understudies, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
After Hours
...AFTER HOURS
Dudes in duds broken down brims
cocked and bent creases in trousers
when thugs were gents
People with attitude women too
demeanor and outfits like
Ebony's front pages
Dudes in...
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Categories:
understudies, culture, father, nostalgia,
Form: Ballad
Tomorrow Is Too Late
...Tomorrow will be too late to pen the imminent
Hold onto the moment and sketch the future
Backdrops must be moved for change
Leads and understudies pass by or fade
Wrest the quill from the bot...
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Categories:
understudies, introspection, life, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Fallen Angel
...Wrapped in shattered wings of failure,
remorsefully, begging second chances
from the crowd of mannequins; Judgement of silence.
Feeling, this searing breath of mortality
sweep away accolades and ...
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Categories:
understudies, life, sad, social,
Form: Free verse