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Best Lead Pencil Poems

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Premium Member Read My Pages
From stone to

bone- hieroglyphs

to alphabets

Images and letters

from tablets to the

printing press

From skin to leaves

Stamps- Seals and indigo

Lead pencil ink or charcoal

I am a scribe -I...

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Categories: lead pencil, journey, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Prose Poetry



Haiku of a Sketch Book
a lead pencil, blunt
and flaking, in a sketch book;
grey faces peer back...

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Categories: lead pencil, art,
Form: Haiku
Sexual Employee
Sexual Employee

It clocked in at 7:02 am
No orifice in sight
Placed the time card in a slot
Made its way to a metallic table
Blank white paper on...

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Categories: lead pencil, business, creation, image, life,
Form: Didactic
Number 2
When I jot down the words that I
Have forming in my head,
The only tool required is
A pencil filled with lead.

A pen won’t do the trick...

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Categories: lead pencil, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Those Pair of Shoes
for the heard for the hurdle of a mile turn ace of hold match for the dagger
wind wet back this topic is a hot one...

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Categories: lead pencil, art, love,
Form: Verse



Photostory 2
Photostory 2

Inquisitive in nature born
But lacking tools to fuel his thoughts
His family did not share his gifts
Just toiling hard and to exist

Hs ebon hair and...

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Categories: lead pencil, child, creation,
Form: Free verse
My Desk Drawer
I am sitting at my desk attempting at some prose
But nothing seems to come to me nothing to compose
My minds a canvas blank not two...

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Categories: lead pencil, funny, motivation, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poet
Naked, no clothes, no nothing at all, 
Nothing to cover her thoughts,
Nothing to hide her inner ideals, 
When her mind strolls those innermost walks,

And her...

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Categories: lead pencil, beautiful, beauty, poets, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member It Only Just Seems That Way-
Just cause,
Just because it only seems that way
Doesn’t make it so?

It only seems yet that way it seems;
That a firefly is not a fly-it’s a...

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Categories: lead pencil, allusion, analogy, confusion, history,
Form: Free verse
Iron Tumbleweeds Titanium Clouds and Babies
Tumbleweeds that weigh one thousand pounds
Roll easier off the tongue than off the cliff
Reach high to find what's up with iron
Then leave the plains behind
Venture...

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Categories: lead pencil, appreciation, baby, education, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Aging Poetry
remember the simple poem
you wrote as a young kid
in the second grade for 
assignment one cold February week
for the upcoming Valentine's Day
on wide-ruled yellow paper
with...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lead pencil, introspection, lost love, love,
Form: Narrative
Bulletproof Outback
Numb to sun's torture, scathed terrain
      Syphons cynic's air, ribs poised 
      Statuesque breath stoic...

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Categories: lead pencil, allusion, animal, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My First Computer
My First Computer
By: Tom Wright
11-7-2019

My first home computer,
Was a number two lead pencil.
It’s only function,
Was as a writing utensil.

It could refresh, or delete,
and would even...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lead pencil, computer,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Pre Computer Age
Pre Computer Age
By: Miracle Man
December 30, 2021

Coffee stains on unlined paper;
a number two lead pencil,
erasure mostly gone.

Thoughts that appeared as vapor;
I desired to be prehensile,
each...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lead pencil, inspiration, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme

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