Upstaging Poems | Examples

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Better Again

Better again

On get quote this 
Stopped wi the wrangles 
Complex focus 
Offering angles 
Left with the hurt 
Top wi the spin
An ethic of work
Offer a win
It’s got to be 
Say as it lives 
This prophecy 
Takes and it gives 
Dealing on maps 
Frames require 
Feeling with contrast
Same desire 
Haze is exciting
Earning the list 
Phasing the writing 
Turn wi the twist 
Just stay wi the round 
Got so to holler 
Upstaging the pound 
Offload the dollar 
Sign so fantastic
Then it left 
Rhyme show and classed it 
Treble cleft 
See the plans
Show the plate 
Kilograms
Overweight
Try to decipher 
Things that arise 
Cry when you’re hyper
Sing with the eyes 
When they close 
Scream with it shake 
Mention those 
Dreams are awake 
Put on a list
Be jotting
Sure, from the gist 
Keep spotting
Watch the heroes
Set it a gem
Stop the zeros
Better again

Premium Member Virtuous Circles

Does life seem to you,
as love does to we,
that virtuous circles
engage healing intent

While viscious squares
of bad-tempered stomping
marches much less gayly
toward escalating drama
with harmful trauma
and persistent
discontent

Positive engagement
does not engage negative performers
as if some lives
are divinely entitled
to redemptively matter more,
and thereby attract glowing floodlights

Upstaging those worshipping lesser
unstraight
unmale
unwhite gods
and goddesses of trust
and compassion
without boundaries

Backstage,
opening opaque
and closing vulnerable curtains
breathes diverse gender icons,
sexualized idols

Muses 
recomposing noted feelings
from inside out,
hard erect warriors
embracing soft receptive catchers,
absorbent empathizers

Integrity's copassionate healers,
pulling and pushing together
1 way
with 0 means.

Premium Member Hilarity

HILARITY
the comedic
to imbue
something
a little
 different

memorable
twists
 authenticity

in the
overlap
  between
 memory
conceived
  atmosphere
  upstaging
with the edgy

attention
 organically
 grabbing
 the
   seemingly
desperate
& ambient
 embracing
effortlessly
&exploring
 a tinge
of
experience
of an
immersive
journey
of the engaging
&thoughtful

focused on
the
self-conscious

inimical
 &
blissfully
accessible
yet uncanny
curiosity
  connected
to
the
sublime
&abject
being
surprised




NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand


Premium Member Lazy Girl Detective

I solve crimes daily
From a brown Lazy-Girl-Recliner
Upstaging seasoned professionals
Solving cases that confuse and confound assigned detectives.

My husband is in awe,
singing my praises,
expressing his admiration for my abilities.
Not realizing how many times I have seen each episode.

Premium Member Freshly Painted Door

I am freshly painted
Feeling smug
Upstaging the walls of my cottage

I am feeling new
They are old
I am arrogant about it

No one chastises me
They are kind
It makes me feel guilty

I suggest they could use sprucing up
They laugh at my young self
Pointing out their love of being aged

I suddenly feel too fresh
Too new
Too modern

Relax say the walls
Just be you
We love you the way you are

Sage advice from the ancient ones
I settle down
Attempting to age as fast as I can

Setting Sun Skims the Ocean

Setting sun skims the ocean,
providing an orange motion,
a blaze shimmering sky
with angel clouds floating by.

Fiery reflection a few feet from shore,
a dramatic image adds to the nautical lore
of sunset upstaging daylight's role,
overcoming it with its dusky sole.

Nearby a mighty rock formation stands tall,
it is the rugged sentry who refuses to fall,
scars of erosion thin its walls on occasion,
the stalwart soldier is not afraid of the abrasion.

An opening exists within the mighty fortress,
which leads to a secret cave of an aquatic sorceress,
capturing the unsuspecting visitor of sort
trying to escape the high tide of the deathly fort.

The placid evening scene changes on a whim,
what is a lovely sunset scene turns dark and dim,
evening shadows take over the sky above
making the angel clouds disappear with a mighty shove.


March 15, 2020
Sample no. 4


Premium Member Beautiful Fall Declares God's Magnificence

Blessed season of Fall bursts with beauty
Exposing color-changes’ divergence
Accentuating air of serenity
Upheld by God’s glorious* magnificence!
Testifying nature’s great variety
Inspiring creativity’s influence
Fall’s radiance shines midst gloom’s obscurity
Upstaging Summer heat’s oppressive sense
Leading toward triumph’s progress-bounty!

Fiery glow over boredom’s prevalence
Autumn shows grand life stage reality
Lifting our spirits from failures’ despondence
Letting us learn truths on humility!

*Psalm 145:5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy (LORD's) majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

September 10, 2018 
4th Place, "Beautiful fall" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Hamilton; judged on 9/14/2018.

Premium Member Making Friends

You meet and shake hands
Things seem fine, real grand

You're married; so are they
You all work for your pay
He's a dentist; she's in social work
Professionals, not lowly clerks  

Then you notice their kids. They're strange, a bit weird
One wakes up after noon; another has a full beard
Of course, your first two divorced; they take after you
The next two -- idiosyncratic: Are you that way too?

When you visit their home, their kids are all raging
Yelling and screaming, constantly upstaging
Their parents, who'd once seemed so engaging

And when they return the favor, your oldest just sits
He stares into space, picks at buttons and zits
As the other texts like mad, anything to 
Avoid talking to friends of Mom and Dad 

You view them as parents now, and what do you see?  
A pair of losers whose kids run wild and free
And when they look at you, they see something similar too 
A couple of failures whose kids drive them cuckoo 

It's time to go; you smile and shake hands once again
Half-heartedly agree to another date, but when?
Who has time these days? "We'll get back to you."
As you silently stew: How'd it all come unglued?

Streamers In the Sky

Streamers in the sky, 
etched deeply as they contrast 
against the pale blue, 
breaking up the monochromatic 
ceiling with its white streaks, 
a criss-crossing interception 
trying to erase each other from above, 
a temporary display which lasts for 
a few hours until determined clouds 
decide to camouflage the unwelcome 
intrusion by upstaging with their 
slow-motion dance of drifting cotton balls.



March 5, 2017

Premium Member Organic Ecstasy

It had been a day full of miraculous detail.

Freezing rain played the ground like a kettle drum.

Trees snapped and flowers curtsied 
before engaging in a pas de deux 
with blades of grass on the stage 
of this summer eve.

Our erupting blazing star...

Sported a set of yellow barn doors sorely in need of a paint job;

Closed shut with a heavy metal rusty lock seeping a golden shade;

Upstaging the blue sky and creating its own distinct wash
to signal the break of day. 

A curvy curved river flowed naturally through 
the mountains into a water colored sunset.

The moon waited patiently offstage with bedroom eyes 
anxious to make her entrance.

And I,

Well - I just stood motionless,

Hoping to absorb it all;

Hoping to never take this planet for granted;

A non opiate 

I like to call

Organic Ecstasy. 

And not a sign of men’s hands anywhere in sight.


14~12~2014
Maurice Yvonne

Upstaging

Death by rains.
No exclamation 
was needed.

*

O, moon;- 
I will join you soon,
hotted up by sun.

*

Parenthesis.
I am reading again
my lost poem.


Satish Verma

Revolution

Throwing the wreath 
across the river
after the canal rapture ?
Does it look eerie ?
Yes it was spine-chilling
to see. The band went on
to play:
‘nearer to island’.

There was a pause.
Then a question.
The black space was done for.
The hatching. A plot ?
Upstaging a snowstorm
falling in someone’s lap
with white roses.

In cracked dry mud
an unclenched fist
deconstructs a map.


Satish Verma

Premium Member Naming Fish

People often get stuck on what to call their fish
and in many cases come up with ridiculous things.
They imagine some kind of greatness, attached to
naming,  and they name them Moby, or Jaws, or  Hannibal.

Some are poetic and flowing like water- Eulalie
or Aolani( Ay-o-lawn-ee) which means "Heavenly Cloud."

Some joke, and call them Sushi or Chips
which no self respecting pet suspects the meaning of  …..
or, they  invoke nature -with
Bubbles, Starlight or Pearl.

There was a puffer fish named Toto that became 
a small attraction at a resort turtle pool
Beside a path of yellow stone he would surface -
squirt a perfect stream of water from his mouth
to the surprise and delight of passing tourists

daily upstaging resident sea turtles.

Who Are They Trying To Impress

Who Are They Trying to Impress?

A cross between the bride of Frankenstein
And the Dalmatians’ Cruella De Ville
See teens walking at malls; glad they’re not mine
Absurd appearances give me a chill

Parents with tattoos ride on a Harley
Leather coats and gloves cut off at knuckles
Sprung from these roots that appear so gnarly
Teens upstaging their folks give me chuckles


Written for John Freeman's Boisterous Comedy Contest

One Runaway Religion

Ignite the barren clay, I need
some rare elements
to tie a thread to the moon.
Upstaging the sun.

Not aspirational he was stripped
to become radical
like the dark blood of a white soul.

Pentadactylous was losing the big toes
under the burning skies
of unmindful eyes. The system

was collapsing. One premature
innocence dies defore the guilt
was proved, in the howling night of terror.

He unrolls the thighs to show the stitched
corn. The seeds step out to prove
the adolescence of crime.


Satish Verma

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