Best Sketchbook Poems
Little Coffee House...Little Coffee House
It’s the coffee counter line-up
A conveyor belt of people
Ready for their little treat
A little piece of comfort
From their favorite beanery
I strum as I watch them
My......
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Categories:
sketchbook, confusion, girl, people, places,
Form:
Lyric
Muse Enthused...She screams me awake; no rest tonight.
I arise, rub my bleary eyes
Grabbing pencil and sketchbook,
She pours onto the page
And I am amazed
That is so cool
Wish I could
Have done
Th......
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Categories:
sketchbook, appreciation, how i feel,
Form:
Nonet
Before the Film Begins...Rolling into bed-n-blankets;
I turn to ensure that my pen, journal
and sketchbook are beside my bed.
My dream-companions need me,
as much as I need them.
they need my imagination and......
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Categories:
sketchbook, dream, imagination, introspection, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Loch Ness...Alltsaigh - The Scotch Highlands
I made a pact with you near water's edge:
Before the campers came,
I would remove The drawings on the hostel's kitchen walls
In which you are a few ......
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Categories:
sketchbook, analogy, betrayal, water,
Form:
Free verse
Four Legged Palettes...Cats are containers of
colorful personality.
A blue cat sits alone
looking at the floor before him.
His mind blank as,
a new sketchbook;
waiting for the artist within to,
paint him int......
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Categories:
sketchbook, animal, cat, metaphor, pets,
Form:
Light Verse
Yellowstone, 1995 Or Thereabouts...I can hear the water,
a giggle almost,
in the small cold spring
by which I sat
that foggy morning,
sketchbook, pen, and watercolors in hand.
A weed with a single white flower
grew from t......
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Categories:
sketchbook, nature, spring, flower, flower,
Form:
Free verse
Hollow Sounds of Bamboo...hollow sounds of bamboo. . .a blue heron
Sketchbook Journal......
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Categories:
sketchbook, beauty, blessing, sound,
Form:
Monoku
In My Sketchbook...waka,tanka,yugen
elegant poem-songs to pen
haiga,wenren,haiku
multi-talents to read or view
renga,haikai,haibun
light or long,poetry-prose can be fun
senryu,kigo kireji
the cutting word.......
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Categories:
sketchbook, on writing and words
Form:
Couplet
Ouroboros...Be ye as wise as serpents' (Matthew 10: 16)
you live long enough
everything runs together
like water and sand
the circle where the serpent
coiled at the edge of the sea
seems less than
ste......
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Categories:
sketchbook, age, appreciation, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Not Pretty In Pink...Just thirteen and already hiding,
capped off like an old oil well,
ears clamped shut
with a musical flair of pink in a bush
of unkempt hair.
Thirteen and all balled up
like a tribble in a ......
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Categories:
sketchbook, angst, childhood,
Form:
Verse
What Love Feels Like...That night, under the luminance of my city, listening to your music, you asked me what it felt like to fall in love. At first I was at a loss for words, although in my head I could write countless po......
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Categories:
sketchbook, beautiful, cute love, deep,
Form:
Narrative
East Wind...east wind
each petal
just enough
Published Kukai thread--Sketchbook......
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Categories:
sketchbook, spring, wind,
Form:
Haiku
Illumination...a
poem
of
light
hallowed
heightens
the
morning
sun
making
love's delight
a bumblebee
in purple
clover
a
cloud drift
of spring geese
or long
notes
of marsh
wren......
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Categories:
sketchbook, appreciation, beauty, earth, poetry,
Form:
Shape
Now That's Just Sad...Talk about your nuclear weapons.
My brain feels like it’s about to explode.
Last summer I started sketching
with a group called Sketchbook Skool.
I drew and colored and Zentangled and arted
ever......
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Categories:
sketchbook, art, creation, depression, humor,
Form:
Exercises In Silence...1.
The light of dawn
from the slit of the curtain,
Silence
And the sound of silence.
2.
He opened his eyes. Faint images crossed the sky of his mind, he did not submit to them, took up hi......
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Categories:
sketchbook, emotions, loneliness, silence, solitude,
Form:
Free verse