Inkwells
...What stays
unwritten
silence claims
forever
— to remain unchanged
(Dreamsleep: May, 2025)
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Categories:
inkwells, silence, writing,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Soup Main Fixings: Words
...Words that stem from the heart seldom a mind,
would update fellow captives of a world
they knew--spent or saved since, much like the word
they are ... or were. Absentia defined
the heart's favor ...
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Categories:
inkwells, analogy,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Vein of the Quill
...Inkwells,
vein of the Quills,
scribing upon parchments,
heavy laden with dark secrets,
blotted
Date: 23/04/23
Traditional Cinquain poetry contes...
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Categories:
inkwells, mystery, writing,
Form: Cinquain
So I Am
...They may whisper and jeer behind my back,
Coz they stand no chance abutting my way
They may even write long letters and hip upon rack
I’m sure you might have been convinced in a way
But aren’t yo...
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Categories:
inkwells, betrayal, deep,
Form: Free verse
Fill Up the Inkwells
...Fill up the inkwells
The poets are in town
Bleeding black and blue ~
Verbs, adjectives, nouns...
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Categories:
inkwells, blue, cheer up, poets,
Form: Light Verse
Blood Maps In Blue
... I
Veins blue as death but they flow,
tributaries in a returning system.
They fork only when the mind
rides a lightly sleeping cycle
to a venous river
and th...
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Categories:
inkwells, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow In the Wind
...Hidden deep within the trees
a whispering tomorrow
Buried in their shadows
voices fall and take new breath
The midnight wind blows silent
carrying hope into the future
Words caught up and ven...
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Categories:
inkwells, hope, time, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow In the Wind
...Hidden deep within the trees
a whispering tomorrow
Buried in their shadows
voices fall and take new breath
The midnight wind blows silent
carrying hope into the future
Words caught up and ven...
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Categories:
inkwells, hope, time, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Labor of Love
...world weary of iambics and prose ~ work with inkwells write from your soul
WORK PERSPECTIVE MONOKU Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Beata Agustin
how many syllables (17)
05/05/22...
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Categories:
inkwells, allusion, work, writing,
Form: Monoku
Childhood Memories
...FORTIES CHILD
Freezing slides
on sheets of ice
Balaclavsa snug
Finger mitts
snow-balling bold,
Playtime in the cold.
Satchels,desks
with lift-up lids
Pen nibs
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Categories:
inkwells, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Verse Freed To Couplet
...YESTERDAYS
Inkwells in desks with lift-uplids
Tables written out with old pen nibs
Noses pressed flat on the window glass
our pockets tinkling ,full of brass
Exploring fields across the br...
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Categories:
inkwells, nostalgia, word play,
Form: Couplet
Final Salute To An Alliterative Warrior
...W afting wonder world-wide
A stonishing, astounding artistry
R apier-like Rennaisance rhymes
R enascent, radiant resonance
I ndigo inkwells of incense
O mniscient, omnipotent origina...
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Categories:
inkwells, heaven, i miss you,
Form: Acrostic
Well Penned, I Hope
...Would my poetry improve if I used a posh pen
A fountain or quill, as was used back when
People took pride in all that they did
Not like these days, anything for a quid
Where are the inkwells that...
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Categories:
inkwells, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Glimpses Into Schooldays
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Can you recall being in school?
The clock, whose hands, never seemed to move!
The scent of fresh pencil shavings, m-m-m.
A box of new crayons to not only open, but to smell.
The des...
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Categories:
inkwells, childhood, memory, school,
Form: Free verse
Poetless
...Blank pages strewed high on my desk in pain,
For now, I heard the squelch of death again,
It had echoed from my emptied inkwells,
As dying words crept from a mind that quells,
Pilfered hands sc...
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Categories:
inkwells, allegory, analogy, fate, lost,
Form: Rhyme
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