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Etching Poems - Poems about Etching


Premium Member The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - Etching by Francisco Goya
we are scratches on the surface somehow imprinting page to page degrading as we move frame by frame until we slump with the inky weight of filling in the detail of ourselves ...

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Categories: etching, anxiety,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Hiku Ekphrais Etching
intaglio delicate incisions in soft outline...

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Categories: etching, art,
Form: Haiku



Etching the Day
I love a room that overlooks A river or the sea, For, on a terrace with some books, Is where I like to be. A sunny seat, a view with boats And birdsong in the air, A husband who, upon me, dotes - Why, nothing can compare! A mid-day ice cream, browsing stores, A walk along the shore, A bowl of mussels, Guinness pours - Well,...

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Categories: etching, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pictograph Biography
Pictograph Biography David J Walker If asked He might or might not Remember the past The old man had notched the days By the thousands in his trek Around the sun Each marking its path as a Tattooed etching by the Laser edge of history in his skin Of every day and every place he had ever been And even if...

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Categories: etching, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Etching Screeching Noise On My Chalkboard-
Far far away there's green flash lit chalkboard Plymouth Rock so radical fingernail etching screeching noise Far away fingers hands wipe away the blood Cleansing the board flash in green Fingernails so radical Etching screeching noise 8/18/20 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Categories: etching, adventure, analogy, bullying, corruption,
Form: Free verse



Etching Goodbye In the Mist
Forgotten flesh behind cold walls, pressing nose to steamed glass-- With weightless memories, your ache hides within a dream like whispers on a scream. --playing moon games. a black widow wraps flies around sound. The empty silence roared like fire, standing in the shadows of surrender... she etched goodbye in the mist....

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Categories: etching, betrayal, dad, daughter, silence,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Your Latin Radere - the Etching
Beautiful, burnished, brilliant Yet, my ink friendly inclinations produce a chemical discrepancy And now, you come – Artist Scratching, on my polished mental plate Do not blacken me with your fumigating candle Do not soak me in your acidic bath Yet, here you are, sketching to leave your design Ever so lightly, you etch, carefully, penetrating Acid soaks into your carefully drawn...

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Categories: etching, allegory, angst, art, me,
Form: Free verse

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