Best Graphite Poems

Somethings are best 
said through blank
scriptures in sheer 
silence, but pulling the 
violin strings of
a poet strumming
to personify pain, 
with tempests of 
torment rushing 
through...

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"These woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
But I have promises to keep, 
And miles to go before I sleep, 
And miles to go before...

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When evening dusk falls from the edge of night 
like a loosened taffeta from bridal halls 
the wrist pulse slows as the stars align 
their...

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The Haunted House

An aging Victorian graphite three story house sat on a 
promontory, lonely, deserted, weathered and forlorn.
Broken windows showed signs of cruel abuse from
passersby...

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The distance between us is like a pencil line drawn on a page
like steam in air

like the drop of water that captures in its soul...

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Sunset until daybreak
Mournful tears disperse
Grieving widow’s heartache
Rhyming woeful verse

Pencil topper lifted
Graphite scribbled prose
Candle holder shifted
Table's withered rose

Somewhere marvel science
Infant newly born
Crying pierces silence
Breaching early mourn

Joyful...

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Color me naked with your sighs
Scribble me stripped
Stabbed 
Slashed
Stippled on your skin

Paint me black
Seething in charcoal amber
Writhing in lines
The brush strokes of your tongue
Beseech

Craft me...

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Dear eloquent weaver 
of woes and throes,
When the last 
 pewter petal of weary winter
falls as piercing prose,
placing star-kissed tulips
  between our 
poignant poems,
rewritten...

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“Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.” ~Victoria Erickson

Tonight the moon sanctioned...

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Eroticism -
             a supple spine in a wanting curve
    ...

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Wordsmiths, take heed ...

Letters of the alphabet,
By themselves are but harmless shapes
Of ink or graphite or digital information,
(Placed in ordered variations of ones and zeros),
But...

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A Curtain of Rain
By Valerie D. Staton

A curtain of rain
Fell from graphite colored sky…
Cars are floating by...

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Nakedness blurs in the rough charcoal smudge 
  
shapes shaded with a roll on the rim of a graphite night 
   ...

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G O D

God my professor who does not sit on a stool at the head of the class correcting exam papers with their columns of...

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My mind spirals with murky metaphors 
In kaleidoscopic circles where
Graphite moon-walks through magnified pain
Reaching a piercing sphere noisier than
A whirling maelstrom wrapped
In fluorescent fogs of...

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