A Book Reread
...I see, looking through a novel read long ago
that most of the story I had overlooked
or misunderstood.
Strings of decades are often a compendium
a journey disjointed by sinkholes and rockfalls;...
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Categories:
blue pencil, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Word Nibbler
...A jackdaw is stealing
my tote bag of unused words,
a rodentlike kibitzer, a pecking dictator
of the worthiness of sounds.
If I run out of bullets now
he will take over my range,
blue-pencil my ...
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Categories:
blue pencil, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Blue Without Her Blue Jacket
...I remember going down to the store with ma and not knowing what to buy
It was my first day of highschool tomorrow and I knew I'd see Mara.
Mara was hot in an unusual way. she wore grunge t-shirts,...
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Categories:
blue pencil, blue,
Form: Free verse
Nothing Lasts For Ever
...The yellow and blue sky
The grass where we lie
The black and blue pencil
The pomegranates that we steal
The crimson tongue of fire
The snake in lyric lyre
The beggar boy and girl
In thei...
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Categories:
blue pencil, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Thousand Times Your Name
...While the light is still shining, I take my notepad to the window sill, and with my ink blue pencil write your name and again..... and again. A whole page with nothing but your name, but that one wor...
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Categories:
blue pencil, boyfriend, happy, love, men,
Form: Narrative
Paint By Numb - Brrrs
...Paint By Numb -brrs
A picture was there, all cut up with
lines forming strange shapes. I
seldom knew what the picture was
or if it ever became what it was.
“Take the blue pencil and color all...
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Categories:
blue pencil, art, children, color, poetry,
Form: Free verse