Best Highlighter Poems

Words…soft and gentle words
 Pour on like a humming voice
 With a forgotten melancholic tune
 Like a softer lullaby on a wild dune.
 
 They...

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words lifted out of their mundane fonts 
translucently reborn by the holy obelisk
 held between the fingers.

academic  talisman... 

 baptiser of all memo's and...

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Destination of dreams

Maps are folded and re-folded into pocket sized
destinations of our own heart’s desires

Routes become numbers and numbers become moments
as the planning cycle, with...

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The leaves and changing,
and people rearranging,
It's the start of the year,
People spring with cheer,
The bark is wet,
from all the showers we get,
But i've been told,
"Spring...

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She takes the stars up in the sky
And connects their dots at night
Like a giant Etch A Sketch
Her own Galaxy Lite-Brite

Using neon highlighter 
All the...

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Constantly criticized
The world is misinformed...
Let me tell you all about
what must be known.

A young boy, I was fearful
Confused by what I was,
by communication
Yet gifted with...

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Into what wisp of cloud or clod did my poem flee?
Into what minuscular pinch of diaphanous, free-floating empyreal, stratospheric air did my figurative furled parchment...

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So concerned with the skill
But anyone's skilled with language
Everyone knows the power of will
Though words rarely show knowledge

So i say screw the pettiness of being...

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Spend a bit extra 
receive a little more 
In life’s cutthroat sale
and thrifty superstores

No free dinners
It’s all in your head 
For each slice gained
the rest...

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An oversized vintage T-shirt is 
My weekend attire or 
More like my mainichi attire
My face bare
Exposing an unnamed galaxy of freckles
The bottle of
Cheap combini
Apple sparkling...

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My ’65 Rambler

in 1979
i learned to drive in a
1965 turquoise rambler

three on the tree
cracked, dusty leather
smelling like an old fisherman’s boot

the sun spotlighted that car
bouncing...

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It’s a beautiful day, like a hole in perpetual winter. We rode bikes around campus - everyone was out. When it’s cold I just go...

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wreak
leaves down
bruised trees gaze
hued leaves with tears
countless highlighter colors of anguish
sending warm cheering arrival wishes
gladness harvest
shades of bliss
mild plants
soothed.

Written: August 22, 2021

Double Tetractys 8 Poetry...

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~Highlighter dumping iron mini Crayola colors left out on the driveway melting
             ...

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Empathy--highlighter of intelligence
requires creative perspective
creativity is intelligence...

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