To new beginnings
...
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 pen, appreciation, inspiration, introspection, joy,
Form: Free 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 pen, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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 pen, absence, april, break up,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
ballpoint pen, anti bullying, violence,
Form: Senryu
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 pen, angel, betrayal, bible, fantasy,
Form: Verse
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 pen, 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 pen, baby, future, humor, technology,
Form: Light Verse
Antipoem 31 Rita Montero
...AntiPoem 31 “Rita Montero”
(Poet’s instruction: Kindly play “Ay, Mama Inez”
by Rita Montero while reading this AntiPoem)
a red trolley finds Ebbets Field behind a pigtown ditch
significant h...
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Categories:
ballpoint pen, baseball, discrimination, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Flamingo
...The body electric; it moves about
On fire from a heart that has exploded.
Suspicion of me; eyes on me. I didn’t do it!
I merely sat idly by while they killed themselves
With drink.
I have...
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Categories:
ballpoint pen, anxiety, dark, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Shaft of a Quill
...This horny shaft of ruffled feathers
Is hollow and needs to be filled
This shaft has become a hard ballpoint pen
It needs secretion within parchment
It is filled with ink wanting to write
With...
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Categories:
ballpoint pen, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Disposables
...A banana peel littering the sidewalk
A candy wrapper lying carelessly on the parkway
An aluminum Coke can, crushed, by the side of the curb
Cigarette butts scattered randomly on the pavement
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Categories:
ballpoint pen, abuse, environment, love,
Form: Free verse
All From a Broken Pen
...You could say spring was in the air
When his ballpoint pen flew apart
Arthur took charge of it's repair
So that made it a work of art!
Declaring that, he felt compelled
To write something down...
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Categories:
ballpoint pen, humor, life, relationship, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Gliding King of the Boulevard
...AND Jesus! Like-licking lollipops gliding King
of the boulevard of spirit dreams
and I licked-like sticks like the wooden
cross across Life Oh Mohammad too,
who knows where he's taking me--...
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Categories:
ballpoint pen, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Purloined Coffee
...like a night fairy
you invaded
my side of the room
stealing my coffee
hot handed
like the money
with which it was procured
selling poetry
composed with heart
and sore fingers
holding ballpo...
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Categories:
ballpoint pen, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Scheme of Things
...Scheme of Things
John wants everyone to walk in truth
And if you happen to have a sweet tooth
One of priest's sermons should listen to
Will liven you up so you won't feel blue.
No matter how...
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Categories:
ballpoint pen, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
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