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Keystroke Poems - Poems about Keystroke

Confessional Booth Number 9

...Streetlight dander. Jawbone asphalt.
Blink razors carve her iris script.
Rib stars ovulate in feral grates,
mechanical tongue juts a bloodline breath.
Keystroke ruin writes in collapse,
a wavefo...
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Categories: keystroke, absence, conflict, corruption, desire,
Form: Romanticism

Premium Memberdecember

...(a quick, staccato tapping of imaginary typewriter keys)

december!

(d(arkness)).
(e(nding)).
(c(old)).
(e(ven so)).
(m(emory(christmas hanukkah kwanza))).
(b(efore(ten))).
(e(ach(a flicke...
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Categories: keystroke, birth, chanukah, christmas, december,
Form: Acrostic



Premium MemberLiterary Feud Among - Pt 1

...Prelude to what…..

I see you,  /  you / yes, come into my…… 
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought 
and savage syntax shatter li...
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Categories: keystroke, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Verse

A Flower Thirsting For Rain

...In the glow of a screen,  
we found each other,  
two souls adrift in the vastness, 
spilling into the digital ether,  
each keystroke a heartbeat,

Sometimes, I trace the outline  
of your fa...
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Categories: keystroke, abuse, computer, cry, goodbye,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberthe old poets

...The old poets haunt me
they taunt me from the shadows
following every keystroke I type -
they’re critical of phrases,
they demand narrower themes
and mock the very clichés they invented.

I re...
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Categories: keystroke, anxiety, gothic, humor, poets,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberinternet

...Oh, the internet, that digital domain,
Where truth and fiction dance in disdain.
Where every keyboard warrior reigns supreme,
And cat videos rule, a bizarre meme.

Scroll through feeds of filter...
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Categories: keystroke, funny, internet,
Form: Rhyme

Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom

...Au revoir oh perilous freedom...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.

Ever since the notions
of life, liber...
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Categories: keystroke, age, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Unsociable Media

...Everyday we get more dependant
Reducing our span of attention
Rendering us less independant 
Diminishing our skill of retention. 

Like this, like that
Me.. Me.. meme.. Me
View this, watch  th...
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Categories: keystroke, society,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTribute To a Master Poet

...At times a poet joins us
    At times another leaves
  But when a master poet departs
    it's a dagger to the collective heart ...

  O, but if he pops in for a 'cuppa' or two
    his every ke...
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Categories: keystroke, joy, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDoes Poetry Have a God

...Does poetry have a god?
I wonder as I write,
Re-write, delete, delete,
Save….no wait….

I sense a presence
Hovering over my fingers
As they search
Each keystroke
Hesitating, conspiring
With...
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Categories: keystroke, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Free verse

Anticipatory Anxiety Fosters Catastrophization

...anticipatory anxiety fosters catastrophization...,

especially bombardment of online scare tactics
courtesy fiendish insidious loathsome sinister oafs
rubbing their hands at aggrieved party;
pun...
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Categories: keystroke, 12th grade, anger, computer,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPressure

...It’s May 18th, 2022. I’m poised, alone, heart pounding, in front of my laptop, waiting for courage, my finger hovering over the return key, like a child hoping the timing of my keystroke will bring m...
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Categories: keystroke, fear, mom, motivation, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVeil

...sliver of vertical night
  visible slit along the curtain centre-line
  too lazy to pull them tight
  surely nobody outside lurking, peering in
  winds rise, branches creak and fight
  rattling ...
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Categories: keystroke, dark, imagery,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberMasterful Paint Strokes of Artistic Hand

...Masterful paint strokes of his artistic hand.
Should use zinnias or roses that are banned?
Decides upon an honored verdant ginger jar
Muse stirs up imagination from afar 

Maestro’s every keystr...
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Categories: keystroke, art,
Form: Couplet

Same Persona

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Tho’ the soft voice has an aristocratic tone,
the haughty attitude ain’t no street gutter different:
Being rude ... dropping shade

Dark keystroke mood, 
shallow indigo indifference s...
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Categories: keystroke, humorous, imagery, psychological, satire,
Form: Tristich

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