Best Dabs Poems

Written by Gail DeBole

My laughing paintbrush
Amuses the canvas with
Many mornings and tickles
Two half-polished pumpkins.

Cobwebs of cornstalk
Casually poise on the
Pumpkins and branch into
The air like pick-up sticks.

A stroke of orange
Pumpkin gets
Lost on my cheek.
The camouflaged children 
Have come and gone.

Two pumpkins helplessly smile
On the itchy rug.
The...

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Dabs of paint
Blots of ink
Challenging the world
To think

Reflect on texture
Tint and style
Acceptance, truth
Or full denial

Metaphoric words
That pierce
Trembling minds
Of those thought fierce

Subtle hints
Of bravery
Hidden in
Dark knavery

Blots of ink
Dabs of paint
Shades of what it is
And ain’t

For in the dab
And in the blot
Artistic battles
Need be fought

John G. Lawless
©6/18/2023...

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