Honesty On Stage – 14th December 2025

~ shaun tenzenmen

Dreams

shape reality.

Stories need people,

the weavers of words;

the satisfaction with joyous ending?

Rising curtains, actors playing people, real

royalty and fakers, forging fortune for applause.

Bright lights shine, eyes glittery, all silvery struck.

So, stage mirrors life stories, untold, often repeated, become

so
real?

The
mask,
the
role,
mask
the
real.

So

become repeated often, untold stories. Life mirrors stage, so

struck silvery, all glittery eyes shine, lights bright;

applause for fortune forging fakers and royalty!

Real people playing actors? Curtains rising,

ending joyous with satisfaction. The

words of weavers. The

people need stories.

Reality shapes

dreams.

What a headache! A palindrome poem that is almost a double etheree. I gave up at the tenth line and had to enlist AI to give me ideas to connect the two etherees. It kinda works. I think the theme here is apparent but due to the structure of the palindrome, the specifics are a little bit lost. Does the formatting help or hinder?
This poem was prompt #10 for the Chimeric Poetry Scavenger Hunt, which I’m slowly working my way through. No more palindromes for me!

9 thoughts on “Honesty On Stage – 14th December 2025”

    1. Thanks Val 🙏

      Is there a link to other attempts for that prompt?

      As I was writing it I was starting to see which words to avoid using and was getting into the swing of it but after a couple of hours on one poem, I ran out of enthusiasm! Haha!

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      1. Shaun, if you look at the comments on the scavenger hunt post, there will be links to other’s posts. If you look at the prompt and a calendar, you can count when my post for that prompt was posted (I post M-W-F)…

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