Best Unlined Poems

Once upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.

It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I had tried to park her in the sun
Though I doubt...

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(This a new Version created using many editing suggestions from Linda:) 

I picked you up
like a “shiny” newly minted copper penny 
it was your kitten fur voice 
O how you would hate that...
the avocado texture of it
with which 
no matter what wild wicked hour I...

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I am mesmerized
by ever-changing wisps
of clouds
meandering across
cobalt-blue
Hawaiian skies.
I am mesmerized
by whitecaps dashing
against coral breakers
phizzing out in the sand.
I am mesmerized
by colorful phrases
strolling across white
unlined pages.

written September 11, 2021...

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“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats 

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between...

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It was in another time, another place
Back then he brought me red, red roses
Now my forever memory is of his face

Scent of that bouquet time will not erase
Now pressed between the pages of a book
It was in another time, another place

In my soul I keep...

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I still write my poems

On unlined sheets of paper

Using fountain pen

© 2011 Kevin Stock...

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I picked you up like a “shiny”…newly minted copper penny 
(How cliché)
it was your kitten fur voice  (O how you would hate that) 
the avocado texture 
with which …no matter what wild wicked hour I would call you...
you would answer
You shimmered like sunlight on...

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For five days now, it has sat
Black and gray, reflecting heat
Actually, a very nice Jeep
With expired tags, rumpled bookbags
Yet nobody has moved it from my house
For five days now

As I surmise, with my poet's eyes
Journeys of flattened grass, of dusty glass
A map discarded, a gypsy...

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The stitching across the genre                                        ...

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ONCE IN A BLUE MOON'S VENTURE
I UNDERTOOK A JOURNEY TO SEEK THAT WHICH I TREASURE
THERE HE WAS AND I WOULDN'T LET MY HEART PONDER
FILLED WITH CRYSTALLINE DELIGHT, MY HEART STARTED TO FLATTER

HIS FACE RECTANGULAR YET SCULPTED, UNLINED AND DELICATE
HIS EYES BROWN YET VIVID AND PALE...

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For diverse ranged interests, in prose and paint, speech annoted by body, frisbee 
aflight or as busking bowl.

Writing poetry, sitting or standing, thought on title, concept craving to be told, 
calligraphy ink to unlined leaf.
and art- always. Lines interlace, texturising a touch of plain or...

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Gods Country

Gods country as a whole
Is a whole country united
A whole continent un-subdivided
Without senseless violence
In any shape or form.
Unlined
with barbed wire strung tight
Spanning the Pacific to the Atlantic.
Simultaneously
 all of it, and none of it 
private....

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It’s pure as fresh snow 
and as pale as a ghost.
It’s the shade on the light spectrum
that I loathe the most.

A beluga whale, the milky moon
and the aftermath of bleach
and all my body’s hidden places
just out of the sun’s reach. 

It lies on unlined paper
and...

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Out of the bowels of Harrisburg
Comes a new woman on the scene
She's head of environmental pollution
She's known as the Harbor Sludge Queen
She's in charge of polluting our county
And putting the environment in a rut
While her boss, the infamous Mr. Ed
Has his nose buried in athlete's...

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Piano keys –
waiting for my fingers,
they dream of a Bach fugue.

Sheet music –
notes build cathedrals of sound
that wait in patient silence.

My daughter’s horse –
strong willed spirited mare
who taught her so much.

Print in books –
the miracle of adventure 
between the pages.

Equations on blackboards –
elegant integrals
to describe...

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