To new beginnings
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ahhh... the crisp feel of the new notebook
its spine never cracked open
its pages of virgin white perfectly aligned
awaiting their marching orders
eager for all and any pen markings
from sun...
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Categories:
ballpoint, appreciation, inspiration, introspection, joy,
Form: Free verse
Ballerina
...To twirl like a dancer upon paper,
And execute the swirling pirouettes,
One needs to keep a balance of the pen;
So step by step the stage is swept in strokes.
Now left, now right, and two and ...
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Categories:
ballpoint, creation, fun, metaphor, muse,
Form: Blank verse
Shine Bright O' Golden Pen
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Shine Bright O' Golden Pen
To Empower & Inspire The Masses Of Men,
Burn Ever Luminous & Blaze As The Sun
And Let Thy Ballpoint Scintillate Like The Chosen One,
Fill Thy Longhand With Prest...
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Categories:
ballpoint, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
PEN
...PEN
At first, it was just another pen
A ballpoint, as is called by some
Not one in that old clear plastic
But shiny metal, looking fantastic
A present, as fancy as they come
Quite the classy ...
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Categories:
ballpoint, writing,
Form: Rhyme
A Poet Prepares
...Ballpoint pens or sharpened pencils,
Scads of pads of virgin papers,
These are the tools,
The base utensils,
This poet needs for his mental capers.
Thesaurus and dictionary close at hand,
A ste...
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Categories:
ballpoint, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
Gods Ink Blots
...He really should use
a ballpoint pen
ink blots are hard to remove,
and they can mask our reality.
The blots form mysteriously
shaped smears and smudges
that conceal rather than reveal.
We wh...
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Categories:
ballpoint, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ode To My Pen
...My dear incredible pen,
you are the pinnacle of writing instruments! Looking refined with your elegant ebony shaft and gold-filagree trim, you are a true technological wonder to behold and a master ...
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Categories:
ballpoint, character, fantasy, feelings, funny
Form: Ode
Once Your Fool
...An April fool
twelve months out of the year.
And it’s been a full calendar year
without you in it.
Empty spaces
take up my planner now.
Devoid of you and me
and all the ...
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Categories:
ballpoint, absence, april, break up,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
ballpoint, anti bullying, violence,
Form: Senryu
Not a Ballpoint To Sleep
...THIS IS ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
VERSE 1:
Not a Ballpoint To Sleep
I dare blame them for any detriment,
As I care more to rubbish these bait flip men.
So simple having their downfall predistine...
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Categories:
ballpoint, abortion, adventure, judgement,
Form: Lyric
Didact
...DIDACT:
VERSE 1:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
VERSE 1:
Leaned on words of kind,
Nailed all thoughts of mind,
So well do I train it to bright.
A shackled bone screwed to be tight.
Positi...
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Categories:
ballpoint, character, confidence, courage, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
A Very Cheeky Devil In Tumbling Rhyme
...A VERY CHEEKY DEVIL IN
TUMBLING RHYME
Thus, I give to mankind
the zipper and the ballpoint pen--
for this He kicks me out of heaven!
(No other reason ca...
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Categories:
ballpoint, angel, betrayal, bible, fantasy,
Form: Verse
My Desk Drawer
...I am sitting at my desk attempting at some prose
But nothing seems to come to me nothing to compose
My minds a canvas blank not two words can I rhyme
So I try counting backwards just to pass the t...
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Categories:
ballpoint, funny, motivation, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Comparing the 1500s and Now
...This year 2021 seems so very hard
with covid and all its limited implications
but it's worth comparing centuries before
five hundred years before was no celebration
In comparing all these 500 y...
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Categories:
ballpoint, life, remember, time, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Future of Technology and Diapers
...The horse gave way to the car
The boat gave way to the plane
The quill gave way to the ballpoint pen
from Oklahoma to Ohio to Maine
Radio gave way to TV
TV to the Internet Sreen
Yet rad...
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Categories:
ballpoint, baby, future, humor, technology,
Form: Light Verse
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