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Sunday, 6 March 2011

Sunday Photograph & Poetry Challenge


                         The empty stage stands ragged in sunlight
                         So stands my life as bleak now you are gone
                         Where once the blazing actors dazzled sight
                         Where once the spotlights danced and brightly shone
                         Now half broken down, in tatters lying
                         The painted scenery that looked so real
                         Speaks of dreams destroyed, of visions dying
                         The harsh daylight does falsities reveal.
                         And yet the play will move and live anew
                         While yet you lay silent within your grave
                         The show goes on but my life dies with you
                         There’s nothing left here that I want to save.
                         The stage of my life stands so bleak and bare
                         The leading actor is no longer there.

The challenge is set by http://onestoppoetry.com/
The photo is provided by Jacob Lucas - Thanks Jacob
Visit Jacob’s official website: http://live.jflphotography.com.
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11 comments:

  1. dustus6 March 2011 at 17:28

    "The show goes on but my life dies with you
    There’s nothing left here that I want to save."

    Emotional depth and through sonnet form too. Nice job with the prompt, Penny. Your poem reveals both cultural decay and despair.

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  2. Penny6 March 2011 at 17:38

    Thanks.

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  3. Gigi Ann6 March 2011 at 18:51

    A bittersweet poem. However sad, life goes on...

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  4. Steve Isaak6 March 2011 at 22:57

    Great cavalcade of images, exemplary flow, all that. Effective piece.

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  5. Brian Miller6 March 2011 at 23:16

    sad...the show goes on but without you...

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  6. Beachanny6 March 2011 at 23:39

    I'm blown away at the work inspired by Sunday picture prompts. This is an important work. You so deftly construct a beautiful sonnet around the metaphor of an empty stage. The depth of meaning so beautifully wrought, the emptiness and grief so tragic to endure is revealed. Excellent. Gay

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  7. Anonymous7 March 2011 at 03:56

    wow! packed with emotion!

    "The show goes on but my life dies with you
    There’s nothing left here that I want to save.
    The stage of my life stands so bleak and bare
    The leading actor is no longer there."

    an amazing sonnet!
    dani

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  8. Penny7 March 2011 at 07:02

    Thanks everyone.

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  9. Anonymous7 March 2011 at 16:17

    well expressed sadness.
    divine message.

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  10. Anonymous7 March 2011 at 16:17

    Please feel free to share 1 to 3 poems with our potluck poetry today, first time participants could use old poems or poems unrelated to our theme, Thanks..
    Happy Monday!

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  11. JL Dodge7 March 2011 at 16:49

    Penny This isd just wonderful, filled with great emotions ! LOVED IT !!

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