Best Sharpener Poems

I, the sleeper and dreamer
Wish for your end
Is it wrong, blasphemer?
Should I break, should you bend?

I sharpen your demise on a pencil sharpener
Peeling you away….reaching...

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I am black and I have the ability to glorify the King
I am great and in believing in him, I have authority over all things
I...

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I glanced out my window watchin' kids plod along to school today.
I recalled my school days and how things have changed along the way
I watched...

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They say education is the key. 
A key that can open all closed doors. 
A sharpener to our minds. 
Provider of brighter life and expectations.
	it's...

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You don’t know what it feels like
So STOP your fake pretending
A life is much more difficult
Through the eyes of the depressing 

You seem so amused,...

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Every child in school owns a pencil
Used for bringing out a writing skill

It always goes with the sharpener
So it writes clearly on a paper

Sometimes it...

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Why Do You Write? 
The sleepy poem asked me
Before it vanished in my shy pencil

Speechless were my boats 
On the waves of her eyes
When the...

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Dear sharpener ,
                      
You...

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(10/25/12)

The black days of history that many do not know
And many refuse to accept - of how the black man
Helped AMERICA to be the greatest...

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just as everything is in its place 
the cracked pitcher in the cellar’s window 
the maize porridge pot amid the verandah flowers 
the knife sharpener...

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POET’S SPORTS 
We are poets,
We are happy,
We are magnets and sharpener,
We sharpens people,
We are poets,
We are happy,
We are great,
We are poets,
We cannot cover our faces,
For...

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I have some mechanical pencils
And poof! With just one little click,
The lead is supposed to emerge and
Of course, in that pose it should stick.

But lo...

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PENCIL   GOES  TO SCHOOL

Taught my little girl a rule:
Your  pencil feels dull,
He needs a turn in sharpener-school.
He’ll come out full

Of new...

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I want to steal things, and take what is not mine
I want to leave this place, I think I’ve served my time

I must be good...

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Passionate people invested fully
In what we espouse, believe we are call’d
To stand and defend against all comers,
Forgetting the fact that our spouse with fresh
Differing perspective...

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