Thespians Poem by Stanley Cooper

Curtain Up! The play begins
The stage composed of thespians
Who help us laugh and have us grieve
In their play-filled world of make believe

These actors voice the playwrights’ lines
As they draw us through the plays design
The characters, when adeptly staged
Can make us cringe at a villains rage

The show can leave us so well smitten
Provided that the play’s well written
We escape reality this moment of time
Through the thespians wondrous pantomime

Famed Thespians, large audiences draw
Olivier, Barrymore, held in awe
History immortalizes down through the ages
Those eminent actors who acted on stages