Theatre Poems - Poems about Theatre

The confirmation hearings are low brow theatre packs of C actors and bitter stone throwers getting off by degrading-disgracing- humiliating. Transparency and truth are a pale afterthought. Do let your children watch the theatre though.... Explain to them that this is how you should never converse with or treat another human being. Now, for an encore take them to a playground leave...

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A lost heart Live without a heart is impossible, but witness is a life This life lives without any human feeling and love encounter Is this a life? Only an old abandoned crumbling dusty theatre The stage is creaking, yellow eerie lights are on, and the red curtain opens Now the theatre is dark, all the lights off. Silence. ...

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I didn't know what to say. For once in my life, I was quiet. I stood there, nails digging into my palms, it stang; Eyes too, tears reflect what they see; Tinnitus, blood rushes up above, defies gravity. I couldn't say what I wanted to. The lights, with a thud they jump on; Right on me, here My lips quiver, It's hot, my...

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Night trains' theatre Saturday to Sunday, after midnight going home, the restaurant closed Walk to the station, get on Bond Street, the train works, takes me home, Change at Baker Street from Jubilee line to Metropolitan line, fast walk In the stations and subways walked people cheerfully, men and women Time after night, hmm, happy people traveled in...

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At three 'o clock this afternoon, A shaft of light pierced my room. Curtains flung back as I arise: An actor's life I do surmise! Working halls and live theatre, Singing songs in every meter. Playing Hamlet, then a clown, Each week it changes in this town. Tonight my accent is deep Fen, My entrance scene is played again. People come to see me ramble, I...

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Idols of the theatre, Glamour of the pages, Bloom of the meadow, Glitz of the stage. They're trailed by lights, They're haloed and followed, They're embraced by the day, They're diamonds in the sky. It’s not about their sizes, It’s about the power they wield, It’s not about the stage, It’s about their dominance of...

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A shopping mall resides where the drive-in theatre used to be After a long week of school excitement builds for the movie we are going to see My girlfriend awaits my arrival out on the grass Trying to spare me from another lecture from her dad happy to pass The gates open the big screen awaits Feature film a...

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The lines are well rehearsed The blocking to perfection No curtain yet to elevate Audience anticipation A gentle mist wafts across The scene is set and ready Our actors find a mark Low voices slow and steady We witness fighting Friendship, love, a tangle of emotion The heart it lifts or falls in time Betrayal and devotion Death and life parade before A story twisty-turny The...

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I get off thinking about the terrible things The thirty-three year old dead beat Might do to me In the movie theatre’s basement. I think about the best ways That I could cheat on my girlfriend. My girlfriend would cry. Sob really. Moan and groan and tear me limb from soft limb. And I’d have a smile on my face in a post-****** bliss. In...

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Disrupted rough sea ripples shuffle audience anticipation Shift in seats, hammered hearts Pummel, fluffy microphone muffle confines communication To thespian garish starring parts Leading lady stands on X central scintillating stiff corset ...

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(curtain raises) costumes torn lighting wrong make up melts rehearsals long missing props forgotten lines nervous looks backstage whines feuding stars director puce sulky looks ...

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Just Before Curtain Up Oh Yes! My career!.. It's behind me. And the bright lights I’d worked so hard for Now they’ve airbrushed my face That looks so out of place On that poster they’ve stuck to my door. My name is no longer top billing It’s been pushed further down out of view By some rich kid who blogs From his channel of...

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Fervent as they may be They’re fake A ruse Faces I put on for show But these faces I am When I act, these faces I am Gasps and tears from a wildly crowd Their applause makes my heart pound Evoking emotion in one, two people, or an empty theatre All the same, I’m more than who I am while on stage These faces I...

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Overture floods sacred seconds as well-worn dread clings like a stale apostle before betrayal. Seat 2 in row N is my island confessional from which all lies are learned and recited. I sit patiently staring at the crimson curtain that hides all God’s sainted abominations. When it finally rises, will there be redemption, retribution or ultimate recognition? Lights slowly fade down in this hallowed...

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Wooden mouth eats word and threat. Frozen eye stares through vaudeville glaucoma. The master is mimicked, masked, and mocked. Doll tuxedo stretched from neck to crotch. Head swivels to whiplash punchlines. If it’s all in good fun, why do I want to die? Neck telescopes and voice screeches. Tears spurt from stage to footlight. Two are one, yet double of what cannot...

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