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Best Chalk Poems

Below are the all-time best Chalk poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of chalk poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: chalk, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tears Of A Pierrot
Porcelain chalk white mask
  moves with silence of mime
that hides a lovelorn face
 moonstruck by orbs of light
with shadows to embrace.

Porcelain chalk white mask
...

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Categories: chalk, love, sorrow,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member - Amid the Jagged Shadows -
"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " 

               Samuel...

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Categories: chalk, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
Here, Again: the Autumn Equinox
Written for the Avebury Gorsedd, 24th September 2016  
I wish you well...

I’m here, again…
Come riding in, upon the western wave
My hair all wove with...

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Categories: chalk, autumn, england, myth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Always From the Heart
"Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees clearly only with the heart. 
Anything essential is invisible to the eyes."

"Le Petite Prince"
Antoine De...

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Categories: chalk, art, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Become
I close my weary eyes
I quake and tremble
The meaning of life losing its hold,
Losing its wonder
In this magnifying, mystifying Sadness

Where is the river, 
Where is...

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Categories: chalk, age, crush, earth, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Principles of legitimacy
Is there an eternal metaphor for love?
Is forever a sinful oath abandoned in
an archive of poems with alienated alliteration.
Hidden behind simile and ironic verses?

Why does...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chalk, angst, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
A Day In School, Thru Autistic Eyes
alarm goes off*
I sit straight up startled and scared
Just my alarm, I hit the button
Get up and go to the bathroom
I brush my teeth with...

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Categories: chalk, child, childhood, emotions, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gun Shy
If guns don’t kill people 
Why are so many people dead
Another moms child 
shot in the head
Blackboards white chalk
splattered in Red
A teacher killed
For something she...

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Categories: chalk, america, angst, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Free Falling
"Free Falling"



You have to believe in Magic
to believe in the poetry of You

If you don’t believe in Magic
you are nothing but a black line 

bleeding...

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Categories: chalk, christmas, family, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Substratum
I am the blackboard
before chalk pictures and words
after the dust falls...

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Categories: chalk, i am, perspective,
Form: Senryu
We Danced In the Downpour
We danced in the downpour

The rains falls
not hard, more of a drizzle
this late Winter night
leaning on the light post
across the street,
watching the light in your...

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Categories: chalk, good night,
Form: Epic
Poetic Allure
Poetic words on
paper creased,
tell beauty of a
mind unleashed…
Pen is to paper - as
chalk is to slate.
Your mind is a
canvas - that I’ll
illustrate.
You’ll envision an
image artfully
crafted,
when...

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Categories: chalk, poems, poetry, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A New Road Home
I've passed it by, so many times before
While traveling this twisted asphalt highway
That weathered sign, nailed, so crudely fashioned
To peeling bark, upon the yoke 
Of...

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Categories: chalk, introspection, old, old,
Form: Narrative
If This Beauty Shall Be My Final Curtain, Let It Be Dropped Slowly
Parched and dry, this barren field stretches,
I wander, head hung low,
staring at the emptiness eclipsing my thoughts
Brittle blades of grass disappear beneath 
my worn out...

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Categories: chalk, love,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs