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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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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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© S. Grace  Create an image from this poem.
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:
Premium Member 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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry