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Best Desk Poems

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


My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...

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Categories: desk, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To All the Pens I'Ve Lost Before
To all the pens I’ve lost before
That rolled off my desk and, on the floor
I’m glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the pens...

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Categories: desk, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Agatha Christie Taught Me To Be a Book Worm
Behind a chair 
        Below a desk
 with my bare feet on a wall, in my flannel pajama...

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Categories: desk, books,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mission Accomplished
I was a skilled, dedicated CIA agent, helping to preserve national security,
By searching for and garnering information, as silvery rain ensures purity.

Days were spent perusing...

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Categories: desk, confusion, fantasy, joy, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Careful Cursive
I write each letter by hand in careful cursive. 
I want every sentence to be pretty,
to look feminine and delicate -
to soften the ugliness you...

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Categories: desk, fear, hope, write, write,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Fire Inside
Today for lunch I dined on some Tex-Mex cuisine,
jalapeno topped enchiladas and refried beans;
a favorite here in Texas, that can’t be denied,
but this afternoon I...

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Categories: desk, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Dreamlove
they met, once upon a time-
her silky hand melds with his
for but a moment 
an exchanged glance, fleeting
chocolate brown orbs
swimming in pools of milk
ebony hair...

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Categories: desk, desire, dream, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
You'Ve Got Mail'
I got a letter the other day;
The Postman delivered it in the usual way.
No return address I could see;
Who could possibly be writing to me?

I...

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Categories: desk, faithme, me,
Form: Rhyme
My Poetry Book
I have read that book
cover to cover
many a time
It's held me when I was down 
gave me smiles all night long
It has given me a...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: desk, poetry, poets, sad, ,
Form: Free verse
Higgledy-Piggledy Pickle
I've a bit of a problem here...
in a higgledy-piggledy pickle
torn between housewifery
and creative muses fickle.

Scattered, shattered fragments
of odd ideas, dreams
lay about my den, disguised
not nearly...

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Categories: desk, funny, humor, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Galaxies Came Between
He'd be typing away on his desk
with blueprints for the next big thing,
While I'd be staring off into the azure sky
appreciating the "insignificant" things

You really...

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Categories: desk, brother, confusion, dedication,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Drumbeat of the Muses
The muses all march to their own rhythmic drum
Or saunter or scamper in their favored time
The poems will come when they come, when they come

Blank...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: desk, cheer up, muse, poems,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Pick Up Your Pen and Write
A week passed, yet no words drifted in my mind
I feared I'd become numb and poetically blind
so, I gave up, went to bed and turned...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: desk, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Robots
Smooth paper lay up on the desk.
My thoughts were odd, but not grotesque.
Will robots take what I did write,
extracting words by dark of night?

The robot...

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Categories: desk, poetry, satire, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Perfect Womens Club
I invite you to join the perfect womens club
The application is sitting on the desk
The following will not determine acceptance
Weight, height
Age
Hair color 
Certainly not breast...

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Categories: desk, women, change,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things