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Abacus Poems - Poems about Abacus

Premium MemberPoetic Chop Sticks

...The muse has no fingers
Possesses no internal abacus
Cannot fathom fractious patterns

…take one word from line A
And two from line B
Skip line C
Use it as line D
Drop C into C

With six yo...
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Categories: abacus, confusion, humor, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberKicking over the Traces

...blinkered by formal training  
counting bright abacus beads of syllables  
mindful not to step on cracks—  
rhythm is everything 

     the audience  c h e e r s !!!  
   the runner-up jeers— 
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Categories: abacus, poetess,
Form: Other



If there was just one thing I could change

...To, William Arthur Philip Louis

If there was just one thing I could change
I would request an odd divinity to ferment in an Elixir
Which never intoxicate, nor take the state beyond rationality
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Categories: abacus, anti bullying, care,
Form: Free verse

Read That Twice

...In vast realm between both false realities 
efforts of a strained bowel movement collapse
like the arithmetic dreams of abacus beads.
Arthritic persistence contemplates procrastination
while stil...
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Categories: abacus, math, moon, space,
Form: Free verse

Abacus

...Abacus

My abacus frame will only hold 
tiny monk heads on her 
metal rods.
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Categories: abacus, humor,
Form: Free verse



If There is a -ph reason, what would you be, there, rather than, here?

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I, eye, with my little spy, the colors of the abacus.
The woolen pattern and bobbling often for a poncho, a season
They were giggling throughout my first semester
Got  a little bit  dim in the n...
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Categories: abacus, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse

If There Was Just One Thing I Could Change while anointing the brainstorming capitol hill

...If there was just one thing I could change
I would request an odd divinity to ferment in an Elixir
Which never intoxicate, nor take the state beyond rationality
No one is an aftermath of coping, c...
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Categories: abacus, friend,
Form: Imagism

Dancing on the Edge of Desire's Ledge

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              To wallow in the fires is a tempting 
surrender.
A swan dive into the maelstromic implode 
of mushroom clouds, return to 
sender.  
If I let it take me into its vespered aqua...
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Categories: abacus, art,
Form: Ballad

Junk Drawer

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The junk drawer of my mind processes MOMENTO, like golden Ark Dulcimer, Cimbalom that shatters the font of unfinished sound, into pixels of mime, song bound, PUZZLE PIECE orchestrated by the ...
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Categories: abacus, art,
Form: Other

Laura's Fault

...What is the age
of reality itself
Older than
a metaphor
Unreferenced
on a shelf

What is the distance
unmeasured from within 
Spoken of
but never seen
A poets
dying whim

What is time u...
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Categories: abacus, time,
Form: Rhyme

Word

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               Words are emotion's instrument,
language elementals playing verse's lament, consciousness', lined segment.
Like a Toon, in idea delineation,
incharacterizing, crystalizes styl...
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Categories: abacus, art,
Form: Rhyme

The Bargaining Wench

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                      Bustling Tavern, din of thieves, 
         prattles sounds, like mini battles
 of Sorcery, at mosaic of vomit tapestry.

               Endowing all sorts in your bosom
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Categories: abacus, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Lion

...Lion 

Not only king of jungle
But lone like a back bencher
Must find subsitence
Or die like a crow
Lone in wild abacus
Must not show his sorrows
Or other animals will call him weak...
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Categories: abacus, 10th grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Choka

Lion

...Lion 

Not only king of jungle
But lone like a back bencher
Must find subsitence
Or die like a crow
Lone in wild abacus
Must not show his sorrows
Or other animals will call him weak...
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Categories: abacus, 10th grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Choka

Olympus

...Lust's Sickness throws off the yoke, of cure? 
Defiant in-body, pleasures obscure.
A mask, of pride, a lost soul-in vogue capture, a hell-ride in the belly of a beastly whore. 
 
The salt crystal...
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Categories: abacus, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

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