Poems Inspired by Shakespeare
#WilliamShakespeare
Poems inspired by Shakespeare. Prose and poetry inspired by scenes, characters and plays, including reworks and parodies. Also poems about William Shakespeare himself, including praise, criticism and memorials.
Brokenpoet2020
Poem Published
21st Apr 2020 9:13pm
21st Apr 2020 9:13pm
Bars of the Bard
Nothing is either good or bad
But it is thinking that makes it so”
Bars of the Bard, resonate,
Kinetic energy flow.
The ripple is only a fleeting reaction
To the cycle underneath.
How you feel is just a perception,
Projection, to daily reality.
The problem is not a problem;
It’s a situation and response.
How you feel about it is the problem;
Your, emotional intelligence.
Feelin ‘bout thinkin
An thinkin ‘bout feelin..
Responding from places lacking in healing.
The bard hit me hard, with a lesson for life, ...
But it is thinking that makes it so”
Bars of the Bard, resonate,
Kinetic energy flow.
The ripple is only a fleeting reaction
To the cycle underneath.
How you feel is just a perception,
Projection, to daily reality.
The problem is not a problem;
It’s a situation and response.
How you feel about it is the problem;
Your, emotional intelligence.
Feelin ‘bout thinkin
An thinkin ‘bout feelin..
Responding from places lacking in healing.
The bard hit me hard, with a lesson for life, ...
#learning
#SelfDiscovery
#WilliamShakespeare
#healing
#NaPoWriMo2020
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goldenmyst
Poem Published
18th Mar 2020 10:06pm
18th Mar 2020 10:06pm
Shakespearean Twist - Inspirational Rewrite
Shakespearean Twist
She is the priestess with a perk like an espresso served with a lilt to deflect pupil ennui; a sonneteer she sheaves her sentences into bushels with the Bard the main attraction. Except for the two women in their roaring twenties who sit like bookshelves with me the hardback wedged between. The belles thumb through the essay in my lap to glean the gold of an older scholar.
Their ladyfingers leaf through the notebook. With each flutter of paper, their touch penetrates into my zippered ziggurat like cuneiform on my clay rod. Lest my...
She is the priestess with a perk like an espresso served with a lilt to deflect pupil ennui; a sonneteer she sheaves her sentences into bushels with the Bard the main attraction. Except for the two women in their roaring twenties who sit like bookshelves with me the hardback wedged between. The belles thumb through the essay in my lap to glean the gold of an older scholar.
Their ladyfingers leaf through the notebook. With each flutter of paper, their touch penetrates into my zippered ziggurat like cuneiform on my clay rod. Lest my...
#erotic
#sexy
#WilliamShakespeare #college
#WilliamShakespeare #college
544 reads
8 Comments
russell_snow
Poem Published
30th Jan 2020 5:50pm
30th Jan 2020 5:50pm
Special Moments
I see her smiling by a willow branch
Where shadows long and twist
and touch her skin
Where words can sink in ways
in which I can't
Those sweeter thoughts; yet warn me
dreams will end
So forth my eyes of tortured
purple dress
Belong the days among the leaves
of spring
To bloom the flowers wild and soft caress
The hands that tear apart
my paper wings
I picture all the times we couldn't see
The dark behind the pillars
lust and greed
So taking every day by day to free
The long lost lover deep inside of...
Where shadows long and twist
and touch her skin
Where words can sink in ways
in which I can't
Those sweeter thoughts; yet warn me
dreams will end
So forth my eyes of tortured
purple dress
Belong the days among the leaves
of spring
To bloom the flowers wild and soft caress
The hands that tear apart
my paper wings
I picture all the times we couldn't see
The dark behind the pillars
lust and greed
So taking every day by day to free
The long lost lover deep inside of...
#regret
#relationships
#forgiveness
#separation
#WilliamShakespeare
322 reads
2 Comments
De420
Poem Published
7th Dec 2019 6:31pm
7th Dec 2019 6:31pm
Imagine that!
If every one in the world can contribute what a world this would be indeed, right!? you just need to believe, even changing yourself, just that is something not to be feared! SO start with that, with this small world of yours cuz what did michael jackson say but to look at the man in the mirror and if you wanna change the world start with your self first and it should be done with thirst
like a vampire ready to bust with blood that you imbursed.
this opportunity to change the world by changing yourself first
Start at a minute micro cosmic level and you will see a change! we...
like a vampire ready to bust with blood that you imbursed.
this opportunity to change the world by changing yourself first
Start at a minute micro cosmic level and you will see a change! we...
#freedom
#art
#WilliamShakespeare
#responsibility
#passion
434 reads
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LunasChild8
Poem Published
6th Dec 2019 3:08am
6th Dec 2019 3:08am
To Explore Or Not To Explore
To explore or not to explore: that is the question.
Whether 'tis easier for the mind to remain ignorant
And accept the cold embraces of outrageous beliefs,
Or is it wiser to take arms against a sea of blockades,
And by opposing, destroy them? To understand, to forget
No more, and by a discovery to say we cured
The blindness and the thousand natural shocks
That comes with acknowledgement of the truth. 'Tis an outcome
Desired to be wished. To learn, to dismiss-
To dismiss, the worst of sins: ay, there's the rub,
For in that dismissal of the...
Whether 'tis easier for the mind to remain ignorant
And accept the cold embraces of outrageous beliefs,
Or is it wiser to take arms against a sea of blockades,
And by opposing, destroy them? To understand, to forget
No more, and by a discovery to say we cured
The blindness and the thousand natural shocks
That comes with acknowledgement of the truth. 'Tis an outcome
Desired to be wished. To learn, to dismiss-
To dismiss, the worst of sins: ay, there's the rub,
For in that dismissal of the...
#parody
#WilliamShakespeare
587 reads
7 Comments
goldenmyst
Bumped 30th Nov 2019 2:57am
17th Nov 2019 11:37pm
17th Nov 2019 11:37pm
Roses And Relations Reborn
#brother
#sister
#rebirth
#WilliamShakespeare
#erotic
643 reads
2 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
16th Nov 2019 8:40pm
16th Nov 2019 8:40pm
Art Takes Courage
#money
#greed
#WilliamShakespeare
#sex
#erotic
587 reads
8 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
11th Nov 2019 2:48pm
11th Nov 2019 2:48pm
Beauty Makes Good Propaganda
#love
#porn
#art
#feminism
#WilliamShakespeare
622 reads
2 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
7th Nov 2019 3:15am
7th Nov 2019 3:15am
Dangerous Chemistry
#lust
#erotic
#nature
#temptation
#WilliamShakespeare
852 reads
7 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
3rd Nov 2019 4:10pm
3rd Nov 2019 4:10pm
Night of the Banshee
Night of the Banshee
Apples blush red with touches of green like love in its callow youth too young for Hades yet plagued by Stygian hearts. Rowena’s thighs are muscle-bound from hard labor.
John and Rowena take up serfdom to harvest apples for a feudal lord. Their vassalage collects them pounds and pence for the season when crops are lean.
The apples are made luminous by dew drops. Ro says, “Here let me feed you some.” With her hand stretched out in friendship he bites into the flesh of her offering. A smile illuminates her face as he...
Apples blush red with touches of green like love in its callow youth too young for Hades yet plagued by Stygian hearts. Rowena’s thighs are muscle-bound from hard labor.
John and Rowena take up serfdom to harvest apples for a feudal lord. Their vassalage collects them pounds and pence for the season when crops are lean.
The apples are made luminous by dew drops. Ro says, “Here let me feed you some.” With her hand stretched out in friendship he bites into the flesh of her offering. A smile illuminates her face as he...
#secrets
#lies
#mythology
#curse
#WilliamShakespeare
760 reads
5 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
28th Oct 2019 2:21am
28th Oct 2019 2:21am
School Librarian
School Librarian
She presides over the school’s book room
Like Helen of Troy in horn-rimmed glasses
Who peruses a practicum on literature
In her six-inch stilettos
Wearing a clingy evening gown
She puzzles over the inordinate amount
Of reference inquiries from the boys
But chalks it off to the curiosity
Of budding scholars
Yet so many questions
On Shakespearean double entendres
Which make her gasp
She presides over the school’s book room
Like Helen of Troy in horn-rimmed glasses
Who peruses a practicum on literature
In her six-inch stilettos
Wearing a clingy evening gown
She puzzles over the inordinate amount
Of reference inquiries from the boys
But chalks it off to the curiosity
Of budding scholars
Yet so many questions
On Shakespearean double entendres
Which make her gasp
#women
#school
#books
#WilliamShakespeare
#erotic
445 reads
4 Comments
dkzksaxxas_DanielX
Poem Published
5th Oct 2019 6:47pm
5th Oct 2019 6:47pm
Bring Some Thing to Sustain The Ghost of a King ! / A Taste of Yorick puddin'
Did I didn't ?
or,
did he do? ( it? )
Ah, a slapiddy face will do for right now,
as publicOpiniion moves to
jellify the corporate nose pickin' into
a ticklin'n;multiColoured
tasty newconfeXion
toward the slip'slobberin slide on Helsinger highway.
Here, dear Hamlet's ham-handed handling of his host,
the ghosty KingBigDaddy,
couldn't be as similar to a slipknot, as mule meat is to
chewing gum.
So...
or,
did he do? ( it? )
Ah, a slapiddy face will do for right now,
as publicOpiniion moves to
jellify the corporate nose pickin' into
a ticklin'n;multiColoured
tasty newconfeXion
toward the slip'slobberin slide on Helsinger highway.
Here, dear Hamlet's ham-handed handling of his host,
the ghosty KingBigDaddy,
couldn't be as similar to a slipknot, as mule meat is to
chewing gum.
So...
#depression
#conflict
#death
#spiritual
#WilliamShakespeare
377 reads
3 Comments
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