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Theatre Arts graduate from the University of Maryland. 40 years professional broadcaster for Westwood One Radio Networks. Actor for Theatrewest, Palo Alto Players, Rep East Theatre, Raven Playhouse, Omni Players, Sheraton Dinner Theatre. Playwright. Poet, Singer

  September 2022     17 days ago

Submitted Poems 4 total

Ionesco's Audience

Ionesco's audience
Is what I want.
That tiny enclave of 4 or 5
Meeting above that Paris bar
In the days and nights after the war.
Trying to make sense
Of what just happened.
Of 80 million dead.
Of a mentally ill narcissist
Who mesmerized...

by Jeffrey Rollins

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Days I Must Not Forget

These are days I must not forget
Sunlit days, my soul warmed deep, without regret.
Unfettered feelings before there was shame,
Set free to soak the sun's healing flame.
Days of sweetness that gave me life.
Days of kisses with visions of night.
...

by Jeffrey Rollins

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The Consumerist Conformist Materialistic Paradigm

I've been trapped.
Trapped, I say, and it's a crime,
By the Consumerist Conformist Materialistic Paradigm.
All my life I have been there,
In a kind of metaphorical electric chair.
Snatched by a force that didn't seem to care.
As far as I know
...

by Jeffrey Rollins

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Why I Write

Why do I write?
Who listens to me?
Who is my audience
Squinting to see?
In the dark abyss they sit.
Desperate, helpless, hopeless
Yearning for relief
For just a little bit
Destroyed by life's circumstance,
Fate's ceaseless woe.
They...

by Jeffrey Rollins

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added 1 year ago
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This is not a competition. Comparison is the enemy of all art.

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I love the sentiment, the gentle romantic love. I also love the use of language and literary devices. aliteration, onamanpoeia, irony. Yeah that's a good poem.

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I felt the journey.

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