Best Artists Poems

Scribbling
                              on      scratch   paper
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the artistic ability to see in view,
behind the lyric, behind the tune,
the detailed painting always shares,
the soul in lyrics that take you there,
the different chords, the high pitched scream,
releasing the heart of everything,
the freedom felt within the pen,
the sound in voice of heartaches mend,
unlocked to...

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Rolling hills and dappling willows

Magnolias bordering each side

A mountain range set the background

Beneath a luxuriant bright blue sky

With wisps and trails of tiny clouds

The bright sunlight it dazzles my eyes

The blades of grass between my toes

These sensations make me realise

That within our minds we can...

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artists feeling with eyes of soul -
chromatic truths


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you perfect
hate creators
all the world’s
resentment painted
on your face
sour makeup
hot to touch
stream tears
ruining this beautiful
facade...

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Fellow poets, when you write, you put down words, of fact or fiction.
With conscious thought you select letters to make words in diction
Words strung together in rhyme, pearls of wisdom, marking the time
You create the thought, the flow,you're painting pictures as you go.

What would you...

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I was thinking that  maybe it isn't the right time to talk about my feelings, but I've had enough of pretending that I'm strong, CAN'T say it's okay when everything around me is so messy! 
I'm so depressed and I have no shame to...

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People are neither good nor bad.
We are both; to different degrees,
At different times, with different people.

Some feel harder than others.
If they are wise they become artists,
Musicians, poets, potters, weavers, decorators, hair stylists.

They cannot help it.
Their feelings have to ooze out somewhere in a creative way....

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We need the youngest
To be the greatest.

New faces in the crowd,
New blood to turn with the world around.

We need new eyes to see with,
We need new minds for the think.

We need hearts that we can turn golden,
We need souls that we can cut open....

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"Crazy is as Crazy does" 


Crazy is as Crazy does

poets and musicians 
come undonne
fresh plots 
till the soiled, their artful 
passion twists

a je ne sais quoi 
madness in the measure
of their melodies - 
there "It" sits within, an articulate
climbing ivy de Sadeness, when 

silence comes...

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“Santa Fe”

Santa Fe, Santa Fe, 
Oh Santa Fe,
Take me home to Santa Fe.
Where mountain peaks 
Are bathed in gold.
Where artists and seekers
Come to unfold.

Where natives live in ages past
Stair step terra-cotta 
Rise on desert floors.
Where artists come to paint and play
Calling all to Santa Fe

Dream...

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Although amateurs are annoyingly apt at aping another’s avocation, 
All artists accord another’s art acceptance, 
As any artwork asks appreciation, 
And after all, all artists are allusive, anyhow.


October 21, 2019
Reformatted October 30, 2019...

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Frothy whitecaps fill the horizon,
waves crashing against the sand;
a painters view.

Capturing the blue, green, and grays
of the turbulent sea;
a canvas awaits.

Sea birds diving, casting shadows,
interrupting the light;
a brush poised.

The roaring sound of the water
fills this painter's ear;
a picture appears.

The rumble of the sea
is not easily...

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War cared not who might get hurt or trampled in the fray.
Its only thought, its only quest and goal, the battle on the way.
War engaged many fronts with might and determination.
Mainly coming from the diplomats and politicians, who
Fueled by hate and fear and greed, 
Decided...

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To all of my friends on Poetry Soup,
you really are a dynamic poet troupe.
Though I’m not here every single day,
rest assured I’ll not stay away.

You’ve made me laugh and sometimes cry,
when your engaging works I do espy.
I sit here now with tea in cup,
occasionally I’ll...

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