• Re: On The Stage / Will Dockery

    From Will Dockery@3:633/10 to All on Fri Nov 14 18:54:52 2025

    mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:

    you can't post a photo of your face looking like


    Your imagination is running away with you again, Pendragon.

    ?

    [Original text restored]

    On The Stage

    I stand on the stage,
    there are no words.
    The music surrounds me,
    I have nothing left to say.
    All I can speak of,
    is sailing away,
    putting it all away.
    They surround me,
    they play music.
    I look into their eyes,
    do they,
    do they hold the magic?
    All I can see is darkness,
    there are no words.
    Nothing but this joke,
    I stand on the stage.
    These words are nothing,
    I am nothing.
    Nothing here, nothing nothing.
    No thing.
    The source of laughter,
    further down.
    All I can speak of,
    is this wish to fade away.

    -Will Dockery 1998

    --
    Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:
    https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery

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  • From Will Dockery@3:633/10 to All on Sat Nov 15 06:07:25 2025

    "Marg Petersen" <pan...@peak.org> posted:
    "Will Dockery" <dock...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:bdb44a4f.0310130325.43d477c4@posting.google.com...

    On The Stage.

    I stand on the stage,
    there are no words.

    And yet, you go on for several lines (and words) yet to say so. Hmmmmm.

    The music surrounds me,
    I have nothing left to say.
    All I can speak of,
    is sailing away,
    putting it all away.
    They surround me,
    they play music.
    I look into their eyes,
    do they,
    do they hold the magic?
    All I can see is darkness,
    there are no words.
    Nothing but this joke,
    I stand on the stage.
    These words are nothing,
    I am nothing.
    Nothing here, nothing nothing.
    No thing.
    The source of laughter,
    further down.
    All I can speak of,
    is this wish to fade away.

    I could say that you *might* (notice that I said MIGHT) have a poem there if you just cut to the chase. The last two lines say it all.

    pandora

    Thanks, Pandora, the poetry newsgoup misses you.

    --
    Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:
    https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery

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