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


Premium Member I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6
From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.

We were five I use...

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Categories: pencil, best friend, cute love,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member I Think of You - At the Edge - 3
A reflection of the coloured pencil drawn sky
skates on the glass smooth surface below it.
While a rebellious group of shades take their positions 
on a...

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Categories: pencil, introspection, love, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Just Within Reach
just within reach?

things!
lots of things!

stuff one could collect,
especially graphic novels
with a writer that made you wish
you had a photographic memory
so you would never forget even...

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Categories: pencil, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Contemplating Calculations
You could say:  
       Variety attracts a free spirit, a soul with curiosity - 
   ...

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Categories: pencil, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: pencil, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Ashen Snow
An innocence we used to know
As morning dourly turns to night
Entombed beneath an ashen snow 

A cell phone yearning for hello
With hopes of answer growing...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pencil, sad, september,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Dad's Workshop
A clutter of wood and dust and cobwebby corners,
And dappled sun shining through dirty windows;
On his work table a drawing; a project in progress,
And tin...

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Categories: pencil, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
The Tale of Poetry Soup Forest
There's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds

A rapscallion,...

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Categories: pencil, environment, poets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Temporal Shades
In temporal shades of pastel hue
abides a subject on debut.
Upon his brow the pencil bled,
sketching life through words unsaid,
etching strife through hints of blue.
 ...

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Categories: pencil, age, anxiety, art, time,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member It Appears I'Ve Disappeared
A lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.

I had a...

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Categories: pencil, art, confusion, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
For My Children
You’re all in charge of authoring a story
Of love and humor, suspense and glory
You’re writing starts with your very first thought
And doesn’t end til your...

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Categories: pencil, for teens, life, my
Form: Rhyme
Old Fashioned Writing
there is a path leading to a journal of time, 
it reveals beauty within verses of fine rhyme- 
it shields her pain when she desires...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pencil, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Losing Things
Today I thought I lost my keys
And knowing what’s at stake,
I searched like crazy, but my husband
Took them by mistake.

An hour later, for a class
Of...

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Categories: pencil, me, today,
Form: Rhyme
Fading
"Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more, in the leafless root there is no less"...

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Categories: pencil, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Unusual Colonoscopy
I stepped in for my first colonoscopy. I was nervous everyone could see
I had a choice to be awake or put out if I was...

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Categories: pencil, humor, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs