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Best Nibs Poems

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


Premium Member Her Nibs
Day in, and day out, from the ripe old age of five
I’ve take to sharp objects and whittled at their sides.

Plotting the precise angle with...

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Categories: nibs, funny, language, metaphor,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Notes On a Wrist
"Notes on a Wrist" 

the pulse felt
under nibs
of fingertips
translates a life

the semicolan
stretches like 
the devil
hungers 

it can 
wait a long time
eternally feeding you
drip by drip

ever...

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Categories: nibs, journey, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Broken World
Broken World



When the lies were injected 
into the veins of innocence
blue feathered quills 
dipped their nibs 
into the ink of golden stories
stalked by trolls 
dragging...

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Categories: nibs, dark, journey, light, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Hobby
I love to sketch with a pen and ink;
to feel the flow of the lines that I think;
 as they pour their way down my...

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Categories: nibs, art, color, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Abandoned Rhymes: Crumpled Pages
I heard taunting echoes and scurrilous snarls.
It was my conscience, and I listened as it spoke
in accusations, contemptible remarks aimed at me.
Shameful words delivered to...

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Categories: nibs, depression, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Sequence-Memories
Inkwells in desks with lift-uplids
Tables written out with old pen nibs

Noses pressed flat on the window glass
our pockets tinkling ,full of brass

Exploring fields across the...

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Categories: nibs, childhood, history, nostalgia
Form: Crystalline
Proud To Be a Birdbrain
As I listen to the lark’s surreal melody to her mate.
I wonder does she ever feel there’s too much on her plate?

Ever beside him juggling,...

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Categories: nibs, allegory, family, husband, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Verse Freed To Couplet
YESTERDAYS

Inkwells in desks with lift-uplids
Tables written out with old pen nibs

Noses pressed flat on the window glass
our pockets tinkling ,full of brass

Exploring fields across the...

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Categories: nibs, nostalgia, word play,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Black Cat
"BLACK CAT"



SILENCE
prowls on soft paws 
with sharp claws
Cutting up the 
Middle Road
Dark shadow moves 
SILIENCE
In absentia 
Empty Absynthe
Puncture wounds
Cold wind blows
Over tracks
Skids softly
like warm 
gants...

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Categories: nibs, cat, color, dark, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haiku Shoppe
 Great idea here
Let’s open a Haiku Shoppe
They go great with beer

Easy to find I’m told
They hide under nibs of pens
Don’t let them get old

To...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nibs, business, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member On Raisin' Haikus
About a month or two ago I had this great idea.
To open up a Haiku Shoppe – kinda like a cafeteria.
 I knew they were...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nibs, humorous, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness
"The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness" 

When the crime 
was committed,
the writing 
was already on the wall,

no one listened. 
It climbed insidiously
out through the cracks
like...

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Categories: nibs, love, mother daughter, muse,
Form: Narrative
Pen
I am a cheap pen, living
In your pencil box, which you keep unlocked
So that someone steals, cause a new one rocks
I have been, used to...

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Categories: nibs, anger, betrayal, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Personification
Chalk
Embrace the new technologies, 
acquiring knowledge as your goal, 
in the realm of search and seizure 
feed your mind, refresh your soul. 

Social Media and...

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Categories: nibs, computer, kids,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Woman, Whenever, Wherever, Whoever You Are
well, woman has been around for a while
  hypno-teasing men with her wicked smile
  been known by many names starting with Eve
 ...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nibs, allegory, woman,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs