Best Sketchy Poems

Sketchy Lovers

The only time we get to meet, 
is when the artist renders on this sheet…
What a joyful event of a stroking sweet,
in black and...

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Living on a planet, unsure if I belong 
Where only sand grains and fossils, seem to last long 
The instinct to breathe air, compelling me...

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Often I wonder, is it worth it 

Opening my eyes to blurred red numbers each morning,
broken lines of early hour countings,
as gloomed darkness peers through...

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An Devil's Dalliance


It was just one of those mornings?
Or at least I think it was, that is,
if I had created “morning’s” yet.
All my little angels...

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For Carolyn


By Carolyn Devonshire & James Marshall Goff


My hand
Wet with tears pouring down my face
Reaches out and finds nothing
Empty spaces where familiar voices
Once comforted me
My...

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All on Me

My childhood is sketchy too many
Holes 
Yet as those holes fill in
I do not like what I see
So many secrets 
So much pain
My...

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"Barefeet"



Let sleeping cats lie
velvet dreams licking
skeleton keys

passed on kisses
passed on fire tongues

sketchy
scratchy

curled around
warm blanketed whispers

laughter tickled
by whiskers

tales twisted
paws softly scratching

skin forgotten, 
dormant 

covered safely
under blanket

out...

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Tolerant coaxing aided my first hundred starts
to rescue you from your own negative dark.
I failed and failed while you grew more hurdles.
My sanity got trapped...

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And from the tree of knowledge, a serpent slid into view 
He’d seen it all before, our future he already knew 
Moses on some mountain,...

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Do you scribe with a sword of honesty
or the feather of a sketchy lie.
Nobody wants to be taken for a flowery parade ride.
I would rather...

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Where is mystery
On how Moses makes his tea?
We know, Hebrews it.

It won’t surprise me
If a cartoonist’s found dead 
And clues are sketchy.

I catch it the...

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Only 14 and eager to find love, she sneaks out at four in the morning
Persuading her best friend to come along – meet someone new
Hence...

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"My college try at 'You're in a Horror film "


               something...

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Avoiding the unpleasantries of the Barbarians At The Gate                ...

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quick figurative brush stroke drawn out character sketch
(serendipitous verisimilitude)

i stand in awe
(with mouth agape) at elegiac, fantastic,
   and graphic idyllic Kinkade magic
 ...

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