Best Stylus Poems
November Sunrise- Three Choices...A silence all pervading, nothing moves,
the gentle hiss I hear is in my head
like record stylus placed into the groove.
Clouds form the upper circle overhead.
Orchestra tunes up in the nearby tre......
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Categories:
stylus, sun,
Form:
Sonnet
To Write Poetry...As midnight bursts like stardust on a cobblestone
My raw vision carries me beyond earth’s floor,
Where marbles with painted dots turn into hallways
And shamans in long robes on......
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Categories:
stylus, adventure, mystery, writing,
Form:
Imagism
Writing Nuances...Above my head, a ray
where I sit on a mossy ledge,
stylus in my hand drips words
like acid upon thin papyrus sheets--
of myths and cultures perishing,
never to be repeated in splen......
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Categories:
stylus, words, writing,
Form:
Verse
Multiplicity of the Self...Man is a jumble of contradictions,
I know, a hard nut to crack!
So unfathomable, so mysterious-
at once a Satan and an angel.
To the outer world I am someone.
But in the well-guarded cellars o......
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Categories:
stylus, confusion, identity, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Lie...Long has it been maintained,
writing sprang from economic drive and need,
seeing as the cuneiform tablets
were soon interpreted with worldly eyes.
But economics is a stylus scratching lies on c......
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Categories:
stylus, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Your Spying Eyes...
I caught you creeping around
with your spying eyes
Quick, furtive glances
betray your silent, stealthy movements
Human satellite camouflaging black cloud,
always in passing tear bursts,......
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Categories:
stylus, allusion, betrayal, slam, trust,
Form:
Free verse
What Am I...Back in roman times I was called a stylus
I wrote messages and stories on papyrus Writing since Before Christ,
Don't matter what the time is
Even wrote for the great poets known as the vikings
......
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Categories:
stylus, adventure, art, dark, deep,
Form:
Narrative
Sochi Scraps...Sochi Scraps
by Odin Roark
Among my pen’s rifling
Hunting its own needs
His imagined snout moves across the page
Seeking out beggary nourishment
A shantytown of doghouses
Provi......
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Categories:
stylus, animal, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
A Sense of Christmas...the yuletide came
in the voice of crooners
Please Come Home-
I’ll Be Home-
Santa Claus, Santa Claus-
which placed me directly
in front of a speaker
the RCA Victor phonograph
with the stylus n......
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Categories:
stylus, holiday,
Form:
Free verse
Flat On My Face...I've fallen flat on my face
And I can't get up
I wanna leave this place
But I gotta pick my face up 1st
Looking in the mirror has become the worst
Cause I gotta look at this face
This face th......
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Categories:
stylus, absence, cheer up, deep,
Form:
Free verse
American Furor...
Raise the white flag of defiance,
surrender to the hate
Offer no concession or compliance,
a vote count short
is the winning debate
Cry ballot thievery trace:
Urban poll pickpocke......
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Categories:
stylus, allusion, anger, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
What I Learned From Old Music...While downloading some music
a thought crossed my mind,
of things that I learned in the past
when playing old music in various formats
which, sadly, were not meant to last.
I learned concentrati......
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Categories:
stylus, life, music,
Form:
Rhyme
A Wink and a Prayer...Loose in the hopes of dread...
Oh, my own lover!
He was such a bold flirt;
with his love unclaimed,
he could recite George Boole
he was one of the old Cool.
He never reached his goal.
so with my blin......
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Categories:
stylus, funny, happiness, love, romance,
Form:
Pencil Musings...That soft graphite core
Clasped in fragrant cedar wood :
Pencil – nothing more,
Notions now bestirred,
Flow softly on the paper,
Gently ease the words.
My poetic muse,
Soft and black from ......
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Categories:
stylus, writing,
Form:
Haiku
Luna...From eve's mural, she glints lusciously
waking duskfall with bolder hues
and toasted flames kindling warm passion…
that in stylus of breezes which etches
tinted oak, petals, and grass ......
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Categories:
stylus, imagery, moon,
Form:
Personification