a brief history of writing
...I once ordered my pencil
“Write me a poem”
My eraser is missing
And I’m all alone
The pencils were kept
in a box made of leather
a major step up
from the days of the feather
then came th...
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Categories:
blotters, fun, humor, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Poet Who Almost Was
...the life of a nearby poet was almost
lost in translation had it not been for
a probability of emoji ridden skirmish
in a late bank holiday spring. no-one
could imagine, upon crumbling desks
and ...
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Categories:
blotters, poetess, poets, writing,
Form: Narrative
The Ink Cycle
...Ink, the black water,
The necessity for life
Purified by blotters
Contained in clouds in rife
Ink!
Yes, the purest of hydration!
...But what if conflagration
Attempts its dissipation,
T...
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Categories:
blotters, analogy, corruption, fire, water,
Form: Rhyme
3121 CE - the Wrapes of Grath
...The wrapes of Grath adorn the path that slammer klingks had tread
when turning spades in everglades to flosticate the dead.
Along the way the snorbels bay at freebled sprutelned
that boogeymen had...
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Categories:
blotters, humanity, peace, society,
Form: Rhyme
The Magic Mushroom
...Fungi, fungus, funguses thousand fold,
eukaryotic life kingdom of yeast and mold.
Ancient legends and myths from many times,
beginnings and ends through mulching slimes.
Egyptians sensed the ...
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Categories:
blotters, 12th grade, metaphor, mystery,
Form: Ballade
Poets Pen
...Flower gardens glow in natures grasp
as ink flows to pen
setting free emotions
happiness or disrepair
There will also be the brute
wearing robes of biblical sheep
Fooling not the serene, wisd...
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Categories:
blotters, abuse, art, hope, integrity,
Form: Quatrain
I Look So Small From Up Here
...fame,
you *****
it was you who taunted us
we walked
on razor sharp blades
of grass
gras
p
ed
at straws
covered in white dust
inside
on the surface
on the surface
we used the word art...
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Categories:
blotters, identity, introspection, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse