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steavenr Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058 |
disconsolate drama set on center stage with star-like talents rising o’er the playbill’s horizon like sun-chariots ascending an Andean incline “all the world’s a stage”, or so says the bard of yore while melancholy brews her morning caffeine stimulating bit-parts in opening acts rehearsals forbidden when legs don’t break never knowing which act follows which or even if intermission’s allowed when tickets are bought o gatekeeper, gatekeeper lend me an intro so the orchestra can play a pit-cropped melody set to libations spawned from word-sprung wells curtains rise and fall to encores’ debuts mingling sorrow and joy in life’s incessant run and the theater fills with both actor and spectator never knowing the what from the which without a program printed by no one knows whom with lines for the reading in a part not played, but lived |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Wordsmith, this is another excellent one with a perfect summation in the last four lines. Owl |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Steaven, you have captured drama at its daily best (or worst) Gave me a different perspective. Thanks! Lori |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
The Bard of yore knew a few things, steavenr. This poem hearkens me back to the old saying, you can't tell the players from the watchers. Well, actually I cloned that old saying with one of my own. ~ Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. ~ |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Now Steaven, this receives from me the IWIHWT comment. Because, it's true. |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
steavenr...some excellent depth and prospective in this piece..well done!! |
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faithmairee Senior Member
since 2011-01-05
Posts 1441Poe Haven, USA |
what an amazing poem with some really awesome lines...i love how you ended the poem...your delivery is right on the mark! Faith There must be a poem in here somewhere. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
 I was thinking about this while watching Carrie Fisher's special which is a humorous look at her sometimes painful past--"Wishful Drinking". She says: "If my life wasn't funny it would simply be true--and that is completely unacceptable." And I suspect that's applicable to just about everyone. (Ask questions of the quiet people--they usually have the BEST stories.) Enjoyed. |
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